MQA Quarterly Performace Report

Q4 2020-2021 Quarterly Performance Report 1 Division of Medical Quality Assurance EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 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 48,904 applications for initial licensure or re-examination and issued 35,697 initial licenses in the fourth quarter. MQA received 151 complaints of unlicensed activity (ULA) in the fourth quarter. MQA issued 101 cease and desist orders to unlicensed individuals whose unregulated and illegal activity could be disfiguring or even deadly to victims. MQA referred 95 complaints to law enforcement for potential criminal violations.