Pain Management

Pain Management Prescribing Practices and Audits.

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(August 16, 2017): Earlier this summer, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) executed its most extensive “health care fraud takedown” to date, initially arresting 412 licensed healthcare providers, doctors, and nurses alleged to have engaged in fraudulent conduct (additional arrests were made in the days following the takedown).  As Attorney General Jeff Sessions stated at […]

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Texas Licensing Boards Have Announced a Pain Clinic Takedown and Have Disciplined Multiple MDs and PAs

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(February 5, 2013): In late December 2012, the Texas Medical Board and the Texas Physician Assistant Board announced that they had suspended or restricted the licenses of seventeen physicians and four physician assistants as part of coordinated “Pain Clinic Takedown.” These licensing Boards met over a two-week period in back-to-back disciplinary hearings last December and

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