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Kansas Professional Licensing Attorney Discusses Recent Disciplinary Decisions

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 […]

University of Missouri Hospital and Clinics School Offers Guidance On Withholding Futile Treatments

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 […]

Kansas Board of Healing Arts Complaint Process

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 […]

Kansas State Board of Healing Arts and Board of Nursing Collaborate On Pain Management Initiative

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 […]

Kansas Amends The Healing Arts Statute

The Kansas legislature amended the Healing Arts Statute in 2015. The statutory amendments are designed to address certain failings of the previous statutory provisions. Furthermore, the amended sections align statutory regulations with the reality of the practice of medicine today.  The amendments impose more severe criminal punishments for practicing medicine without a license as well […]

Recently Enacted Statute Permits Collaborative Practice Arrangements

A recently enacted bill allows medical school graduates to practice medicine in collaboration with supervising physicians. The statute, known as Section 334.036, permits assistant physicians to practice medicine in rural or underserved locations in Missouri. The law facilitates delivery of health care services to citizens who have little or no opportunity to avail themselves of […]

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