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March 10, 2021 Posts

Can the Texas Medical Board Suspend a Physician’s License Without Providing Notice?

There is a general assumption in Texas's administrative law regime that licensees must be given due process before their licenses may be suspended or revoked, and this goes just as much for Physicians as for anyone else. Part of this due process is generally considered to be the giving of notice to a licensee prior to suspension. But there are indeed certain specific situations in which the Texas Medical Board may suspend a medical practitioner's license...

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March 09, 2021 Posts

Does Texas Permit the “Corporate Practice of Medicine”?

In the United States, the licensure of medical professionals occurs on the state level. But it should be noted that there tends to be a great deal of accord between states on which standards and concepts to utilize in regulation and to have their regulatory bodies enforce. In Texas, it is the Texas Medical Board that the Legislature has created to establish the standards for licensure of physicians and maintain those standards by various means,...

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March 08, 2021 Posts

Investigation and Resolution of Complaints Before TDLR

The Texas Department of Licensing and Registration (TDLR) is the licensing body for more than forty professions in the state of Texas. What this means for Texas professionals is that TDLR is the organization that sets the standards for licensure for these professions, maintains and enforces those standards, and engages in disciplinary action against licensees when it determines it necessary. As part of its disciplinary process, it investigates complaints it receives and ushers them to...

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March 07, 2021 Posts

When Off-Duty Behaviors Can Cause Your Professional License to be Suspended

Sometimes professionals forget just how much the rules and regulations which are put in place by their licensing boards, agencies, and commissions can control the non-professional portions of their lives. The jurisdiction these regulatory bodies enjoy is often relatively complete. As a professional, the concept is that individuals live their careers at every level of their being—and therefore, the way a person behaves outside the workplace reflects upon their fitness to engage in their licensed...

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March 06, 2021 Professional License Defense

Texas ACR Certified Technicians Fighting for Their Licenses

Professionals working in the field of air conditioning and refrigeration in the state of Texas must gain their license to do so from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) in order to be considered certified technicians. TDLR's Air Conditioning and Refrigeration program was created to regulate contractors hired to install, maintain, or repair refrigeration, air conditioning, or heating. This does not mean that TDLR is there to represent these practitioners. In fact, it...

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March 05, 2021 Posts

Reasons a Texas Nurse May Be Disciplined by the Board of Nursing

Nurses in the state of Texas are regulated by the Texas Board of Nursing. This Board is not just in charge of licensing nurses of every stripe—including nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and nurse anesthetists—but is also charged by the Texas State Legislature with enforcing the Nursing Practice Act and its own rules and regulations. It provides nursing education and sets minimum standards for the practice of nursing, receives and conducts investigations into complaints against nurses,...

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March 04, 2021 Posts

Texas Nurses at Risk of Being Expelled From TPAPN

Texas nurses are unfortunately no less susceptible to substance abuse than are people in the community at large. But, what's worse, where laypeople may be able to make a clean break from narcotics and other problematic substances by distancing themselves from it physically, it is part of a nurse's daily duties to be near all sorts of substances that may weaken their barriers against temptation. And that is why the Texas Nurses Association put into...

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March 03, 2021 Posts

Informal Settlement Conferences Before the Texas Medical Board

Texas physicians going through the process of battling a complaint against their license are, at times, forced to endure the stress of an Informal Settlement Conference before the Texas Medical Board. An Informal Settlement Conference is by no means the first step in the complaint process. After the Board receives a complaint against a physician—whether by a patient, or a member of a patient's family, or another healthcare worker, or someone else—it reviews the allegations...

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March 02, 2021 Posts

When a Texas CPA is Accused of Professional Misconduct

Licensed Certified Public Accountants perform a service fundamental to the businesses of Texas, and CPAs do a great deal of educating and qualifying in order to be able to work in this vital field. When at last one is licensed by the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy, it means a satisfying and meaningful career. But this can all come crashing down with one formal complaint to the Board. As the regulatory agency for CPAs,...

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March 01, 2021 Posts

Defending a Texas Medical Radiologic Technologist’s License

The medical radiologic technologists of Texas work hard to earn their right to practice in the career they love, helping patients by performing diagnostic imaging procedures. These dedicated individuals ensure that patients are properly positioned for the taking of X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, and computed tomography (CT) scans, among other such medical tests, and that a quality diagnostic image is produced by the imaging. And yet, a single complaint against a practitioner's license...

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