Florida Chiropractic Laws and Rules
Updated Actual Exam Question and
Answer (2026/2027) | Grade A+
• 100 hours -✓✓ How many hours in acupuncture are required to sit for the
licensure exam?
• No -✓✓ Can a non-licensed DC practice acupuncture?
• $100 -✓✓ What is the application fee (DC)?
• licensure - $300; biennial renewal $300 -✓✓ What is the initial licensure fee?
The biennial renewal fee (DC)?
• reactivation - $250; inactive license fee - $250
in total, fees are $500 if license needs to be reactivated -✓✓ What is the
reactivation for an inactive license? What is the inactive license fee (DC)?
• $100 -✓✓ What is the initial certification fee for acupuncture?
• $250 -✓✓ What is the application fee to become a CE provider?
• $100 initial fee; $100 renewal -✓✓ What is the application fee to supervise a
CA? The biennial renewal certification to supervise a CA?
• a. $100
b. $100
c. $55
d. $27.50
e. $55
f. $50
g. $50 -✓✓ Certified Chiropractic Physician's Assistant fees:
a. application fee?
b. initial license fee?
c. biennial renewal of an active license?
d. biennial renewal of an inactive license?
,e. fee to change licensure status?
f. reactivation of an inactive license?
g. delinquent status license fee?
• $300 -✓✓ How much is the delinquency fee (DC, as of 4/1/22)?
• $25 -✓✓ How much is a duplicate license (DC)?
• $50 -✓✓ How much is the fee for an active or inactive licensee who chooses
retired status?
• a. $100
b. $100
c. $100 -✓✓ Chiropractic Medical Faculty Certificate fees:
a. application fee
b. initial license fee
c. biennial renewal of medical faculty cert
• a. 40 hours (prior to COVID, only 10 could be obtained online; all 40 hours can
now be completed online)
b. 24 hours -✓✓ Total hours for CE Requirements (regular biennial renewals):
a. DC
b. CA
• a. Risk management - 3 hours
b. laws and rules - (2 of the hours above)
c. record keeping/documentation/coding - 6 hours
d. ethics and boundaries - 2 hours
e. prevention of medical errors - 2 hours -✓✓ Of the 40 hours of CE required each
regular biennial renewal, what is the breakdown requirement for:
a. risk management
b. laws and rules
c. record keeping/documentation/coding
d. ethics and boundaries
e. prevention of medical errors
• a. general or spinal anatomy
b. physiology
c. general or neuro-muscular diagnosis
, d. x-ray technique or interpretation
e. chemistry
f. pathology
g. microbiology
h. public health
i. principles or practice of chiropractic
j. risk management
k. laboratory diagnosis
l. nutrition
m. physiotherapy (PT)
n. phlebotomy
o. acupuncture
p. AIDS
q. law (relative to the profession) -✓✓ List the approved scope of CE
topics/subjects (there are 17)
• - Attend 1 day of disciplinary hearings in person
- 3 hr course in AIDS
- 6 hrs in documentation/record keeping/coding
- 2 hrs in ethics
- 2 hrs in prevention of medical errors
(do NOT need to complete 40 CEs during initial license period) -✓✓ List the CE
requirements prior to the first biennial renewal (DC).
• 5 years -✓✓ How many years can a license be in retired status before the licensee
is required to take the SPEC (Special Purpose Exam) and re-take the Florida Laws
and Rules exam?
• unearned fees, cash or property, received by chiropractor prior to the rendering of
services -✓✓ What is a trust fund (in chiropractic terms)?
• Quarterly reconciled and retained for six (6) years -✓✓ How often must trust
account balances be reconciled? Retained?
• False -✓✓ T/F A chiropractor charge a third party payer a higher fee than what's
advertised to his/her patients?
• the name of each individual chiropractor -✓✓ a chiropractic referral service with
<50 members must include what in their advertisement?
Updated Actual Exam Question and
Answer (2026/2027) | Grade A+
• 100 hours -✓✓ How many hours in acupuncture are required to sit for the
licensure exam?
• No -✓✓ Can a non-licensed DC practice acupuncture?
• $100 -✓✓ What is the application fee (DC)?
• licensure - $300; biennial renewal $300 -✓✓ What is the initial licensure fee?
The biennial renewal fee (DC)?
• reactivation - $250; inactive license fee - $250
in total, fees are $500 if license needs to be reactivated -✓✓ What is the
reactivation for an inactive license? What is the inactive license fee (DC)?
• $100 -✓✓ What is the initial certification fee for acupuncture?
• $250 -✓✓ What is the application fee to become a CE provider?
• $100 initial fee; $100 renewal -✓✓ What is the application fee to supervise a
CA? The biennial renewal certification to supervise a CA?
• a. $100
b. $100
c. $55
d. $27.50
e. $55
f. $50
g. $50 -✓✓ Certified Chiropractic Physician's Assistant fees:
a. application fee?
b. initial license fee?
c. biennial renewal of an active license?
d. biennial renewal of an inactive license?
,e. fee to change licensure status?
f. reactivation of an inactive license?
g. delinquent status license fee?
• $300 -✓✓ How much is the delinquency fee (DC, as of 4/1/22)?
• $25 -✓✓ How much is a duplicate license (DC)?
• $50 -✓✓ How much is the fee for an active or inactive licensee who chooses
retired status?
• a. $100
b. $100
c. $100 -✓✓ Chiropractic Medical Faculty Certificate fees:
a. application fee
b. initial license fee
c. biennial renewal of medical faculty cert
• a. 40 hours (prior to COVID, only 10 could be obtained online; all 40 hours can
now be completed online)
b. 24 hours -✓✓ Total hours for CE Requirements (regular biennial renewals):
a. DC
b. CA
• a. Risk management - 3 hours
b. laws and rules - (2 of the hours above)
c. record keeping/documentation/coding - 6 hours
d. ethics and boundaries - 2 hours
e. prevention of medical errors - 2 hours -✓✓ Of the 40 hours of CE required each
regular biennial renewal, what is the breakdown requirement for:
a. risk management
b. laws and rules
c. record keeping/documentation/coding
d. ethics and boundaries
e. prevention of medical errors
• a. general or spinal anatomy
b. physiology
c. general or neuro-muscular diagnosis
, d. x-ray technique or interpretation
e. chemistry
f. pathology
g. microbiology
h. public health
i. principles or practice of chiropractic
j. risk management
k. laboratory diagnosis
l. nutrition
m. physiotherapy (PT)
n. phlebotomy
o. acupuncture
p. AIDS
q. law (relative to the profession) -✓✓ List the approved scope of CE
topics/subjects (there are 17)
• - Attend 1 day of disciplinary hearings in person
- 3 hr course in AIDS
- 6 hrs in documentation/record keeping/coding
- 2 hrs in ethics
- 2 hrs in prevention of medical errors
(do NOT need to complete 40 CEs during initial license period) -✓✓ List the CE
requirements prior to the first biennial renewal (DC).
• 5 years -✓✓ How many years can a license be in retired status before the licensee
is required to take the SPEC (Special Purpose Exam) and re-take the Florida Laws
and Rules exam?
• unearned fees, cash or property, received by chiropractor prior to the rendering of
services -✓✓ What is a trust fund (in chiropractic terms)?
• Quarterly reconciled and retained for six (6) years -✓✓ How often must trust
account balances be reconciled? Retained?
• False -✓✓ T/F A chiropractor charge a third party payer a higher fee than what's
advertised to his/her patients?
• the name of each individual chiropractor -✓✓ a chiropractic referral service with
<50 members must include what in their advertisement?
