Covid-19 and the Practice of Law and Pending Health Care Disciplinary Cases
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Women’s body creates alcohol on its own…..creating false positive urine tests
Please see: Alcohol comes naturally to her
DWI and DUI Charges for Sleeping in a Car
Sleeping in a car while drunk is a DWI/DUI.
Emergency Health Care Employer Meeting Requests
If you are a physician or other healthcare provider working at a hospital, hospital administrations protect the hospital at the expense of its employees or independent attending physicians. Local, state and federal governments monitor hospitals and large institutional...
Pennsylvania’s New DUI Laws – Penalties and Grading
I am reading the changes to 42 Pa.C.S.A. 9763, Pennsylvania's new DUI law. Mandatory minimum sentences are now mandatory sentences! Mandatory house arrest/work release/rehab? The DUI sentencing law seems almost eviscerated. It also seems to conflict with the 3806...
Extreme Consequences — Irregular Behavior
A ESMLE/ECFMG client was recently found to have engaged in irregular behavior. This determination is now part of the client's permanent USMLE history. The score report is cancelled and the USMLE transcript contains a notation of the finding of irregular behavior....
USMLE or ECFMG — No Irregular Behavior Found
Contrition and a good, honest client portend great results. My USMLE client traveled very far for this hearing in Philadelphia. She was nervous, but testified credibly, confidently, and sympathetically. She testified about medical issues, significant many personal...
ECFMG, USMLE Irregular Behavior Consequences
Determinations of irregular behavior and the resulting findings will accompany every ECFMG status report CVS report, EPIC report and may also be provided to legitimately interested entities; this information may be provided, regardless of the date of the conduct or activity that comprises the irregular behavior
Notice of a Federal Criminal Investigation into a Medical Practice
If a prescription is issued but fails to satisfy those standards to prescription, it is not valid under 21 USC § 842(a)(1), 21 USC § 829(a). These violations provide for a civil penalty under 21 USC § 842C1A of not more than $25,000 per prescription or no more than a total of $64,820 for all violations after November 2, 2015. The physician was also notified that if Medicare paid for any of the prescriptions under a federal healthcare program, the physician was subject to False Claims Act triple damages under 31 USC § 3729.
Pennsylvania’s New Opioid Treatment Agreement Law
On Nov. 27, 2019 Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf sign into law Act 112 of 2019. This is Pennsylvania’s Opioid Treatment Agreement Law. It took immediate effect. The law requires prescribers to enter into an opioid patient treatment agreement before issuing the...