If you work for a large company, you probably participate in a health insurance plan through your payroll benefits. In the Philadelphia region that plan probably is BC/BS. The insurance premiums you pay as a large, medium, or small company are set by the insurance...
Professional License Issues
Could you lose your professional license due to Medicare fraud?
Medicare fraud is a serious issue that can have significant consequences for healthcare professionals. If you engage in fraudulent activities, you risk losing your professional license, which can end your career. Understanding the risks and how to defend yourself is...
Privacy Issues for Small Pharmacies and Medical Practices
In Florida, and all over the country, public entities are filing nuisance law suits over opiates, corresponding responsibility violations of doctors and pharmacists, seeking to recover the costs to the community. Small business are swept up in sweeping civil nuisance...
OIG Exclusion and Operation Nitengale
I represent 30 nurses facing licensing discipline due to attending one the South Florida fake nursing schools operated by Johanna Napoleon, Gail Russ, and John Pierre. While I am fighting the disciplinary cases, I am also fighting the OIG exclusions. A potential...
4 ways you can protect your professional license
For licensed professionals in the medical field, maintaining your credentials requires ongoing vigilance and commitment to ethical standards. Failure to follow proper protocols can result in disciplinary actions ranging from fines to complete license revocation....
Nurses go the distance for their patients
I represent hard working nurses doing amazing things. This article is about one nurse going the distance for her patients even though the hospitals, government, licensing boards, and maybe even her own department are against her. We need to be more aware of amazing...
Tips to prepare for a Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine investigation
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...
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...
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.
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,...