A board’s decision not to rescind a settlement agreement with a doctor, which the doctor said was offered to her without proper disclosures, was affirmed by the Court of Appeals of Iowa, in an August 27 ruling (DeLouis v. Iowa Board of Medicine). In 2012, the Iowa Board of Medicine…
A psychologist licensed in Israel, but not in the U.S., illegally offered his services in Pennsylvania and must pay civil penalties and stop holding himself out as a psychologist, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled August 11. (Abraham v. Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, Board of Psychology). The memorandum…
An appellate court in Arizona ruled May 27 that the state cosmetology board may ban so-called fish pedicures, an unconventional method of dead-skin removal in which a customer places a foot or hand in a tank containing fish known as “doctor fish,” which literally eat away dead skin from the…
A recommended order by an administrative law judge to revoke a dentist’s license for possessing child pornography did not bear ample factual foundation, the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida held (Borges v. Department of Health). In an August 13 ruling, the appellate court reversed and remanded the state…
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) is a federal information repository dedicated to improving health care quality, promoting patient safety, and preventing fraud and abuse. The NPDB is a federal government program that collects and publishes negative information on health…
The fact that his mistakes were unintentional and not proven to have hurt an animal was not a basis to reverse a veterinarian’s two-month suspension, said an appeals court in Arkansas November 20. The court dismissed the appeal of the suspension which was imposed after a client accused the veterinarian…
Citing a collection of errors by a trial court that had thrown out a license revocation for bias on the part of the Missouri funeral board, an appellate court reinstated the revocation imposed on a funeral director. In the November 5 decision, the court noted that the funeral director had…
A district court was legally wrong when it granted summary judgment against a dentist who charged his license was revoked through misuse and manipulation of state dental board proceedings by other dentists, the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit, ruled November 20, 2013. Noting that there is a “plethora…
The state nursing board has the power under state law to revoke a license in the case of a refusal to submit to a board-ordered mental health examination, the Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, Division Two held September 26 (Ophelia Lee v. Board of Registered Nursing). Ophelia…
Overlap and duplication of two federal disciplinary data banks would be reduced if a proposed rule of the HHS Health Resources and Services Administration becomes final. Announced for public comment February 15, 2012, the revised rule (HRSA-0906-AA87), required under the health insurance reform measure, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care…
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