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Is it Time to Terminate your PHMP Contract ? — End The Torture
I represent health care workers in Pennsylvania’s health care professional monitoring program. Some are voluntarily in the program. Some are forced. Some of my clients’ contracts have been extended from 3 to 5 to 7 years in either PNAP, SARPH, or PHP...Extended Pa Court Closures
PA Supreme Court Extends Judicial Emergency – All Courts Closed to Public Through April 30 The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has directed that the general, statewide judicial emergency declared in March is extended through April 30, 2020, and all Pennsylvania...Pennsylvania Suspends Certain Licensure Requirements for State Board of Psychology, and State Board of Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Professional Counselors
March 22, 2020 Pennsylvania Suspends Certain Licensure Requirements for State Board of Psychology, and State Board of Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Professional Counselors In order to increase the number of health-care practitioners available to...DWI and DUI Charges for Sleeping in a Car
Practicing medical professionals face many competing social and professional interests. Nurses, doctors, pharmacists, researchers, and/or hospital managers participate in celebratory personal or work related social events in which consuming alcohol can be described as...Notice of a Federal Criminal Investigation into a Medical Practice
A federal criminal target letter from a local United States Attorney notifies a potential defendant that they are the “target of” an FBI, DEA, or other governmental agency criminal investigation. Target letters say “you are the target” and place the...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...PA docs risk penalty for overprescribing opioids
As the opioid crisis prevails, states have taken strict measures to reduce the use of these dangerous drugs. Attempts include limiting who may prescribe them, to what patients and in what doses, says Pharmacy Times. Massachusetts became the first state to restrict...Reckless Prescribing and Death By Prescription
Every day medical practitioners confront complex and serious medical cases. Patients and their doctors face death every day of the week. In this opiate use and abuse environment, death is one pill, snort, injection, toke away. Prosecutors have been turning to the...Federal and State Laws Regarding Prescription Fraud
Some of my blogs are extremely dense. This and the next several blogs focus on the intersection of federal and state criminal statutes and regulations concerning illegally written prescriptions and the potential criminal consequences. Federal criminal statutes are...
