An investigation by the State Board of Medicine in Pennsylvania can have significant implications for a physician's career and practice. Medical professionals are wise to understand the common triggers for such investigations, the investigative process itself, and how...
Month: February 2025
Why give social media a break when your medical license is at risk?
As a medical professional, you will want to do all you can to protect your professional license. Without it, you will not have the right to work in the career you spent years training for and gaining experience in. Things can happen that result in you rightly or...
Physician – not Physician’s Assistant – Must See Patients
A St. Louis physician plead guilty in August 2024 to one count of conspiracy. He admitted that while operating St. Louis General Hospital locations in the city and Creve Coeur, Mo., he and his office manager hired assistant physicians ("APs") to see patients but...
Hospital Safety — Gunman Enters Hospital — Kills Police Officer and Injures Nurse
Hospital emergency rooms are full of drama. Parents are worried about their children suffering from the flu. Husbands and wives enter worried about a loved one in a car accident or drug over dose. Weekend warriors seek emergent treatment for injuries from...
I Could Give This Physician Some Advice
Doctors that trade unnecessary prescriptions of scheduled narcotics - or any other drug - for sex will go to jail and will face an Immediate Temporary Suspension (ITS) of their medical license. The ITS process emergently suspends the physician, nurse, pharmacist's...
DOJ charges Walgreens Boots Alliance with unlawful dispensation of millions of prescriptions in violation of the Controlled Substances Act — Corresponding Responsibility Violations
Walgreens Boots Alliance and its subsidiaries alleging unlawful dispensation of millions of prescriptions in violation of the Controlled Substances Act.
Physician Fraud and Kick backs
"A New York doctor was found guilty yesterday by a federal jury for causing the submission of over $24 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary laboratory tests and orthotic braces." Baldonado authorized hundreds of cancer genetic tests for...
A Licensed Clinical Social Worker that claims he is a Doctor– William J Heran ….. Be Careful.
I often write about Pennsylvania's PHP and Pennsylvania's health care boards; impairment investigations that start after a DUI, a positive pre-employment drug test, or an accusation of being drunk at work. The new PHP and the PHMP have ratcheted up their enforcement,...
Could you lose your nursing license for an honest mistake?
As a nurse, you take your job very seriously. You know that any intentionally harmful action could certainly cost you your nursing license. You have an obligation to put your patients first and offer them the best possible care. What if you make an honest mistake? No...
Tired and Exhausted Nurses Strike in New Orleans Before the Super Bowl
"We don't take this decision lightly," Shonda Franklin, RN, said in the release. "But so many of us are tired of seeing our fellow nurses leave UMC because management can't ensure basic things like uninterrupted lunch breaks on our 12-hour shifts. It's time for a...