Medical board rules and regulations

With the growing popularity of medical spas comes an increased risk of malpractice lawsuits for physicians who offer medical spa services within their practices.

Medefense covers legal expenses, fines, and penalties associated with disciplinary actions, such as actions by the TMB, a hospital review committee, or a federal regulatory agency.

Retiring, closing, or leaving a practice? You can now notify patients electronically and on your website.

Physicians in Texas must now meet two new CME requirements.

TMB issued guidance stating that checking the PMP is NOT required for inpatient care.

TMB rules for PMP checks, acute pain, and opioid CME requirements

Texas physicians will soon be required to check the Texas Prescription Monitoring database before prescribing opioids, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, or carisoprodol.

A review of significant TMB changes and trends over the last 40 years.

The amount you can charge for supplying copies of medical records has changed, according to new guidance from the OCR.

In October 2016, the TMB adopted new call coverage rules.

Discussion of more challenging TMB rules: physician advertising, actions to take when leaving a medical practice, documentation of patient encounters, and documentation of prescriptions.

Discussion of more challenging TMB rules: new death certificate requirements, standing delegation rules, and office-based anesthesia rules.