To provide public comment as a physician, go HERE.
The FOMA is requesting a public hearing and will be submitting comment on behalf of the FOMA. We encourage FOMA members to submit comments directly to the Department of Health using the link above.
The proposal was published on August 24, 2026, and is currently in a public comment phase; comments and requests for a public hearing are due by September 14, 2026.
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Professional Bio
Dr. Benjamin E. Lippmann is a psychiatrist raised and trained in Florida. He has lived in just about every region of Florida, and chose to start a private practice in Lakeland, Florida. He graduated medical school in 2012 from Nova Southeastern in Fort Lauderdale. He completed residency at Larkin Community Hospital in South Miami, where he served as Chief Psychiatric Resident in his senior year and graduated in 2016. He achieved board certification with the American Osteopathic Board of Neurology and Psychiatry in 2016. He worked in hospitals in Kansas, Oregon, New Mexico, and Maryland before returning to Florida to serve the Central Florida community. He practices positive psychiatry, which may be better perceived as compassionate psychiatry. No psychiatric condition is off-limits for his care.