Evidence status: CURRENT AGREEMENT LISTING / PARTIAL POLICY EVIDENCE. Internal Medicine & Pediatrics of Tampa Bay’s live New Patient Forms page lists a Controlled Substance Agreement. The complete agreement text was not recovered, but the practice also publishes related controlled-medication office policies.

Who is on the provider side

Current practice materials identify Frank Demery, MD; Mark Bilella, MD; Karen Ackley, MD; Tera Ritchie, APRN, FNP-C; and Kristen Gross, APRN, FNP-C. The agreement listing is practice-wide.

What the public practice policy establishes

• The practice states that certain controlled medicines require a controlled-substance agreement.
• Lost, stolen, or accidentally spilled controlled medicines are not renewed or reissued under the published office policy.
• Controlled-medication refills are handled at physician discretion during visits and are not refilled by phone on weekday nights or weekends under the published policy.

What remains unknown

The full current agreement text, including any testing, pharmacy, outside-prescriber, substance, privacy, taper, or dismissal provisions beyond the separately published office policy.

Florida law versus practice policy

Florida requires refill-policy content in covered chronic-pain controlled-substance agreements, but it does not itself dictate this practice’s categorical lost/stolen/spilled rule or after-hours phone-refill rule.

Primary sources

• Current New Patient Forms page
• Current practice website and office policies
• Fla. Stat. §456.44

← Florida Contract-for-Care Evidence Library

Reviewed: October 4, 2026.

Evidence boundary: The agreement listing and separately published office policies are verified. Unseen agreement clauses are not inferred.