NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT on February 27, 2019, the Board of Medicine issued a Final Order on the petition for declaratory statement filed on behalf of Lina M. Vargas Abello, M.D., and Velano Vascular, Inc. The Notice of the Petition was published in Volume 44, No. 184, of the September 20, 2018, issue of the Florida Administrative Register. The Board reviewed the Petition at its meeting held on December 7, 2018. The Board’s Final Order finds that the Petitioner, a Florida licensed physician, may legally authorize a medical assistant to use a PIVO device for the collection of blood samples as long as such functions are done under the direct supervision and responsibility of a Florida licensed allopathic or osteopathic physician. A copy of the Final Order may be obtained by contacting the Board of Medicine, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C03, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3253.
