Over the past several weeks there has been an onslaught of temporary suspensions by the Texas Medical Board and Texas State Board of Pharmacy targeting Houston area physicians and pharmacists. These emergency suspensions have all stemmed from the joint state and federal task force combing Harris County for the non-therapeutic prescribing and dispensing of
May 2011
Texas Board of Nursing’s Deferred Disciplinary Order
By Louis Leichter on
Posted in Texas Board of Nurse Examiners
The Texas Board of Nursing has recently started offering a new type of agreed order which allows, with some significant reservations, nurses to avoid a permanent disciplinary mark on their record. Pursuant to the Legislature’s mandate that the Board administer a pilot program to study the feasibility of deferred disciplinary actions, the BON has…
The Texas Medical Board’s New Fast-Track Process for Resolving Minor Cases
By Louis Leichter on
Posted in Texas Medical Board
The Texas Medical Board receives about 6,000 complaints each year, and in an effort to resolve select “minor” violations of the Medical Practice Act (Act) more quickly, an administrative penalty order has been developed and put into use called the Fast-track Order (Fast-track).
Not every violation of the Act is eligible for a Fast-track. The…
Combined State and Federal Task Force Clamps Down on Alleged Pill-Mills in Houston
Over the last few years substantial momentum has been steadily building on both the administrative and criminal fronts against physicians whose practice primarily or substantially involves pain management and the pharmacists who file their prescriptions. In many instances, this governmental clamp down is fully justified as every pharmacist and physician familiar with this practice…