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(July 7, 2014): The Texas Medical Board (Board) investigates complaints against physicians, physician assistants, acupuncturists and surgical assistants. A Texas Medical Board complaint can be filed by a patient, a patient’s family or a health care provider. On the average, the Board receives and evaluates over 7,000 complaints each year. The kinds of violations the […]
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(September 20, 2013): Like other physicians around the country, Texas physicians are currently facing increasing pressures to ensure that their medical necessity determinations, coverage assessments, documentation, coding and billing activities meet both Medicare’s requirements and those of private payors. While their duties and responsibilities have continued to increase, reimbursement rates have steadily fallen. Notably, Texas
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(February 10, 2013): Texas physicians face a myriad of challenges each and every day. In an era when reimbursement rates are declining yet many expenses are continuing to rise, physicians are also seeing many of their services co-opted by physician assistants and nurse practitioners, thereby further increasing competitive pressures. Unfortunately, these challenges only represent the
(February 7, 2013): The Texas Medical Board (Medical Board) was quite busy in 2012. While the number of disciplinary action taken had dropped in some categories, it rose in others. In fact, the overall number of complaints filed with the Medical Board was the 2nd highest in the last decade. The Medical Board’s workload numbers
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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
(June 21, 2011): Last week, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed legislation aimed at bringing modest reform to the rules governing investigations of physicians by the Texas Medical Board. The Texas Medical Board is the state’s regulatory body that licenses and disciplines physicians and other health care professionals. House Bill 680 — HB 680, which takes
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