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December 07, 2020 Posts

When the Texas Board of Nursing Offers an Agreed Order

Every complaint made against Texas nurses is reviewed by the Texas Board of Nursing. At times this Board will offer an Agreed Order, which sets forth particular sanctions against a nurse. The Agreed Order is explicitly designed to describe the type of discipline to which a nurse who accepts it will be subjected. This includes any requirements the nurse under consideration will need to complete, such as any sort of remedial education, or a set...

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December 06, 2020 Posts

Fighting Accusations of Medical Insurance Fraud in Texas

When a Texas medical care provider is accused of not following the regulations they are required to follow in order to accept either private insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid, they have entered a potentially career-ending scenario. A medical care provider who has been determined to have committed such violations of regulations can face further problems, including accusations of criminal insurance fraud. And when the Texas Medical Board learns of this finding of fraud, it will proceed...

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December 05, 2020 Posts

When a Texas Licensing Board Refers Your Case to SOAH

Professional practitioners are often surprised to learn that Administrative hearings before the Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH) are quite a lot like courtroom trials. These hearings are formalized such that in the course of the process, a practitioner fighting for their license will be given a chance to question witnesses, produce relevant evidence, and ultimately present their defense before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ). Indeed, a normally-proceeding SOAH hearing will follow the following...

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December 04, 2020 Medical License Defense

Boards and Agencies Overseeing Medical Professionals in Texas

There are many different boards and agencies in Texas that exist to furnish Medical professionals with their licenses to practice their chosen professions. Each of these licensing organizations plays a large role—some might even say an outsized role—in the lives of its licensees. All licensing agencies and boards in Texas are designed putatively to protect the public from improper behaviors and maintenance performed by licensee practitioners who fall under the organizations’ jurisdictions. In the medical...

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December 03, 2020 Posts

Which Veterinarians in Texas Must Register with the Drug Enforcement Agency?

Given the problems made manifest by the opioid crisis in Texas and all over America, the Drug Enforcement Agency has made it necessary for any practitioner of medical arts to register with the Agency to prescribe or dispense controlled substances. This applies not only to physicians administering care to humans but also to veterinarians. And the Texas Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners has reinforced this regime by adopting language in its rules that undergird the...

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December 02, 2020 Posts

What Effects Can a Medical Board Investigation Have on a Medical Practice in Texas?

They’ve been compared to a “black cloud” over a medical practice. They’ve been called “detrimental,” even when they resulted in findings of no harm done. They are the scourge of a Texas Medical Board investigation—which, when prosecuted by an overzealous board, can have extremely ill effects upon the careers of those they target. In fact, while most medical professionals fear medical malpractice suits (and this is the type of action the popular culture is more...

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December 01, 2020 Posts

Defending Nurses Accused of Acting Outside their Scope of Authority

The importance of nurses in the lives of all Texans cannot be overstated (particularly now). And the number of responsibilities they carry in providing their patients with care are nearly too many to count. They are the heart, the lifeblood, of the medical profession, because of the frequency and depth of their contact with the patients the profession exists to serve. Still, there are limits to the actions nurses are permitted to take since, for...

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November 30, 2020 Posts

When a Texas Physician May Choose to Forfeit Their License

Texas physicians are subject to regulation by the Texas Medical Board. The TMB oversees the licensure and the maintenance of licensure of Texas physicians, putatively on behalf of the public. This means the TMB is charged with setting and enforcing standards, as well as holding doctors to laws passed by the state and federal legislatures. Among the means the Board utilizes for this oversight is the accepting, processing, and investigating of complaints made against physicians...

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November 28, 2020 Posts

Protecting Your License to Practice Real Estate in Texas

Being a realtor, it seems to us, must be a career of passion. Realtors put in a great deal of work on many clients over many hours, including working evenings and weekends, in their attempts to connect the right people with the right homes. Despite all this hard work, they at times may go without receiving even a single paycheck for months, which makes it hurt all the more when they learn that a complaint...

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November 27, 2020 Medical License Defense

When a Texas Nursing Home is Faced With a Complaint

Nursing home facilities within the State of Texas that receive notification that a complaint has been filed against them with the Texas Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are up against a wall. The Department takes complaints very seriously. It tends to approach complaints as though they were true from the outset. This places the burden on the nursing home facility to prove that it is innocent of any wrongdoing. The facilities that are...

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