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Professional License Defense and Student Loan Defaults

March 29, 2017Posts

Your professional license could be at risk of a lot of different reasons, from accusations of misconduct made against you by a patient or by a client to accusations of fraud or criminal conduct.  You need to know the laws applicable to license holders and you must make sure that you do everything in your power to protect yourself from losing your license. Unfortunately, one common issue that many professionals have across a variety of fields is the...

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Medical License Defense and Insurance Fraud

January 20, 2017Posts

Medical care providers who accept Medicaid, Medicare, or private insurance must comply with myriad regulations regarding when they bill for patient services, how they bill for patient services, and what documentation they must maintain in order to prove patient services were medically necessary. If a determination is made that a provider was not following regulations, the provider could be faced with accusations of criminal insurance fraud. This, in turn, could put a medical license at...

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Problems with the Federal Physician’s Database Can Affect A Doctor’s Ability to Practice

August 15, 2016Posts

Doctors must be licensed to practice and have a valid license within their state. However, not only the state has the ability and the authority to impact whether a doctor can practice or not. KSFY reported on one recent case in which a physician's license revocation was stayed by a judge in state court but she is still effectively unable to practice medicine because of issues with a federal physician's database. The case illustrates why it is...

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Can Patient Problems Lead to the Loss of a Dental License?

June 30, 2016Posts

Dentists can have their license suspended for many different reasons. For example, recently  Channel 3 Eyewitness News reported on a case in which a defendant's license to practice was suspended after several patients reported problems including expired medications, improperly delegating procedures to hygienists, and deviating from "standard care and treatment."   There are some situations where dentists do fail to provide reasonable care and disciplinary action is appropriate. But there are many other situations where it...

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Nurses Need License Defense If Accused of Acting Outside the Scope of Authority

April 27, 2016Posts

Nurses fulfill many important responsibilities in providing patient care. This is especially true of nurse practitioners who are able to perform some of the services for patients which overlap with services performed by medical doctors. Nurses and nurse practitioners, however, must be careful to only provide patient assistance within the scope of their authority. If nurses appear to cross the line into providing medications or treatments, which should be provided only by licensed doctors, they...

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