MQA Quarterly Performance Report

1 Q2 2020-2021 Quarterly Performance Report Division of Medical Quality Assurance The Quarterly Performance Report (QPR) provides information about revenues and expenditures, performance measures, and recommendations to 22 health care practitioner boards and four councils, as well as stakeholders and health care consumers on the vital work performed in health care regulation. The QPR also includes financial and statistical data resulting from unlicensed activity enforcement. MQA furthers the Department’s mission to protect, promote, and improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county, and community efforts. MQA collaborates with other stakeholders and agencies at the state and federal level. MQA’s regional offices work with local officials and law enforcement agencies to stop and prevent dangerous unlicensed activity within Florida’s communities. MQA received 33,182 applications for initial licensure or re-examination and issued 22,960 initial licenses in the second quarter. MQA received 141 complaints of unlicensed activity (ULA) in the second quarter. MQA issued 55 cease and desist orders to unlicensed individuals whose unregulated and illegal activity could be disfiguring or even deadly to victims. MQA referred 56 complaints to law enforcement for potential criminal violations. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY