Fla. Stat. 395.1057
Patients’ right to choose COVID-19 treatment alternatives

A hospital may not interfere with a patient’s right to choose COVID-19 treatment alternatives as recommended by a health care practitioner with privileges at the hospital if the health care practitioner has obtained informed consent from the patient in accordance with s. 456.62. Any hospital that violates this section by preventing a health care practitioner from exercising his or her sound judgment is subject to agency disciplinary action under s. 395.1065(2).

Source: Section 395.1057 — Patients’ right to choose COVID-19 treatment alternatives, https://www.­flsenate.­gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/0395.­1057 (accessed Aug. 7, 2025).

395.001
Legislative intent 395.002
Definitions 395.003
Licensure 395.004
Application for license 395.009
Minimum standards for clinical laboratory test results and diagnostic X-ray results 395.0056
Litigation notice requirement 395.0091
Alternate-site testing 395.106
Risk pooling by certain hospitals and hospital systems 395.107
Facilities 395.0161
Licensure inspection 395.0162
Inspection reports 395.0163
Construction inspections 395.0185
Rebates prohibited 395.0191
Staff membership and clinical privileges 395.0192
Duty to notify physicians 395.0193
Licensed facilities 395.0195
Access of chiropractic physicians to diagnostic reports 395.0197
Internal risk management program 395.301
Price transparency 395.302
Patient records 395.1011
Identification, segregation, and separation of biomedical waste 395.1012
Patient safety 395.1021
Treatment of sexual assault victims 395.1023
Child abuse and neglect cases 395.1024
Patients consenting to adoptions 395.1025
Infectious diseases 395.1027
Regional poison control centers 395.1031
Emergency medical services 395.1041
Access to and ensurance of emergency services 395.1051
Duty to notify patients 395.1052
Patient access to primary care and specialty providers 395.1053
Postpartum education 395.1054
Birthing quality improvement initiatives 395.1055
Rules and enforcement 395.1056
Plan components addressing a hospital’s response to terrorism 395.1057
Patients’ right to choose COVID-19 treatment alternatives 395.1061
Professional liability coverage 395.1065
Criminal and administrative penalties 395.2050
Routine inquiry for organ and tissue donation 395.3011
Billing and collection activities 395.3015
Patient records 395.3025
Patient and personnel records 395.3027
Patient immigration status data collection 395.3035
Confidentiality of hospital records and meetings 395.3036
Confidentiality of records and meetings of entities that lease public hospitals or other public health care facilities 395.3037
Definitions 395.3038
State-listed stroke centers 395.3039
Advertising restrictions 395.3041
Emergency medical services providers 395.10973
Powers and duties of the agency 395.30381
Statewide stroke registry

Current through Fall 2025

§ 395.1057. Patients’ right to choose COVID-19 treatment alternatives's source at flsenate​.gov