The Missouri Board of Healing Arts (“the Board”) has the authority to place restrictions on newly issued licenses. The licensee has the right to appeal the Board’s decision to the Administrative Hearings Commission of Missouri (“AHC”). Successfully appealing an adverse decision by the Board will make a tremendous difference in your practice and well as […]
A professional licensee aggrieved by licensing boards may seek redress of those wrongs in Kansas courts. State statutes limit a court’s authority to hear appeals from administrative agencies such as licensing boards. The court is permitted to inquire into a very narrow scope of well-defined issues. A reviewing court does not re-try the case. Rather, […]
The Kansas Board of Healing Arts (“the Board”) issued sanction guidelines for misconduct in 2008. The guidelines delineate ten categories of ethical violations. The Board discussed the ethical violations and provided insight into sanction rationale. A grid accompanies the guidelines. The grid is a sliding scale. The grid computes an appropriate sanction based on the […]
The Kansas Board of Healing Arts (“the Board”) in 2008 released guidelines for disciplinary sanctions. The Board broke the guidelines down into ten general categories of ethical violations. The guidelines explain the various categories of ethical violations and the rationale for the proposed sanctions. The Board follows the guidelines when devising a sanction for an […]
The Kansas Board of Healing Arts (“the Board”) promulgated its sanctioning guidelines in 2008. The Board issued a sanction grid to accompany the guidelines. The Board grouped laws and regulations under headings describing a particular type of misconduct. The grid compares the severity of the allegations to the licensee’s prior record of discipline. Then a […]
The Kansas Board of Healing Arts (“the Board”) released a comprehensive set of rules announcing the possible range of penalties for conduct offensive to the ethical rules governing practitioners of the healing arts. In 2008, the Board issued the “Guidelines for the Imposition of Disciplinary Sanctions” (“Guidelines”). The Guidelines provide practitioners with the rationale the […]
Kansas professional licensing attorney Danielle Sanger closely monitors disciplinary decisions issued by the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (the “Board”). Understanding the decisions issued by the Board assists Attorney Sanger in advising her clients who are facing discipline. Attorney Sanger appreciates the commitment and sacrifice required to earn and maintain a professional license and […]
Health care providers can grapple with the decision to withhold treatments that may be futile for their patients. The ethical decision influencing that decision can be daunting. Assisting patients, or their health care proxies, make these decisions must be made with consideration of several factors. If the patient reaches the point of “biomedical futility” the […]
The Kansas Board of Healing Arts (“the Board”) has an established procedure for investigating and adjudicating complaints of wrongdoing lodged against one of its members. The procedure is a natural progression from intake of complaint to investigation and either closure of the investigation or adjudication. Each step in the process is critical to both the […]
In February of 2016, two critical policy-making agencies collaborated to revise their approach to combating opioid addiction in Kansas. Delegates from Kansas’s State Board of Healing Arts and the Board of Nursing met to discuss a proposed redrafting of a “Joint Pain Management Policy.” The draft serves as an attempt to devise pain management plans […]