petition for variance or waiver filed by Jeffrey Brian Pittenger, DC. The Petitioner is seeking an emergency variance or waiver of Rule 64B2-13.004(1), F.A.C., which requires for the purpose of renewing a license, an applicant must demonstrate to ...

 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Board of Chiropractic Medicine

Notice is hereby given that on April 4, 2016, the Board of Chiropractic Medicine received a petition for variance or waiver filed by Jeffrey Brian Pittenger, DC. The Petitioner is seeking an emergency variance or waiver of subsection 64B2-13.004(1), F.A.C., which requires that for the purpose of renewing a license, an applicant must demonstrate to the Board that he or she participated in at least forty (40) classroom hours of continuing chiropractic education during the past two years, of which at least three hours shall be in the area of risk management. Petitioner is also seeking an emergency variance or waiver of subsection 64B2-13.004(2), F.A.C., which requires that only those classroom hours earned at Board-approved continuing education courses or under the provisions of this rule are acceptable. Six (6) hours of the forty (40) shall be in the area of record keeping/documentation and coding; and two (2) hours of the forty (40) must be in the area of ethics and boundaries.

A copy of the Petition for Variance or Waiver may be obtained by contacting: Anthony B. Spivey, Executive Director, Board of Chiropractic Medicine/MQA, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C07, Tallahassee, FL 32399-3257. Comments on this petition should be filed with the Board of Chiropractic Medicine within 5 days of publication of this notice.