Grounds For Discipline – Medical License Defense Before the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure and the State Medical Board of Ohio.
Elder & Good attorneys are well equipped to provide effective medical license defense for any disciplinary issue or complaint. The most common physician disciplinary issues that require our attorneys to engage in medical license defense before the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure and the State Medical Board of Ohio include:
- Standard of care violations
- Illegal prescribing of controlled substances
- Improper prescribing of controlled substances, such as unsupported early refills, duplicate prescriptions, overlapping prescriptions, prescribing to family members, prescribing to a romantic partner and self-prescribing
- Failure to comply with Board guidelines pertaining to periodic KASPER reviews, pill counts, drug screens, controlled substance agreements and other mechanisms for screening against drug abuse, doctor shopping or pharmacy shopping
- Sexual misconduct or boundary violations, including a sexual relationship or any sexual contact with a patient (whether or not consensual), sexually explicit language or language that can be considered to be a sexual proposition to a patient, or providing any medical treatment (including prescribing a controlled substance) for an individual not technically considered a patient but with whom there is a sexual relationship
- Alcohol and drug addiction and abuse
- Drug diversion
- Documentation, charting and record keeping errors and deficiencies
- Malpractice actions (even if settled with no admission of liability)
- Criminal convictions
For a complete list of the grounds for taking action against a physician’s medical license by the State Medical Board of Ohio, please see Ohio Revised Code 4731.22. For a detailed list of the grounds for taking action against a physician’s medical license by the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, please see KRS 311.595.