A recent final days announcement of the Trump administration signaled a major shift in addiction medicine policy by allowing most doctors to prescribe buprenorphine to treat opioid use disorder without taking the current training or receiving a DEA DATA2000 Waiver (“X-number”). Previously, doctors had to…
Graff & McGovern Attorney Douglas Graff has been defending Ohio licensees for over twenty-five years. He has seen it all as they say. At least he thought he had. A nurse client came to Attorney Graff with a subpoena she received, ordering her to appear…
Hearing examiners should not hear cases if they have shown bias towards attorneys involved in the case. The same standards to determine bias for a judge, according to the Ohio Attorney General’s Administrative Law Handbook, arguably should be applicable to a hearing examiner. If a…
Physicians, physician assistants, and others licensed by the State Medical Board of Ohio can be subjected to discipline, up to and including permanent revocation of their medical license, for failing to cooperate in a Medical Board investigation or for failing to answer truthfully questions presented…
On December 4, 2020, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would no longer make marijuana a controlled substance, allowing for a shared Federal and State regulatory system. The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act passed in the House with 222 of…
Under an emergency law effective November 22, 2020, Ohio licenses set to expire between March 9, 2020 and April 1, 2021 are now valid until July 1, 2021. This extension applies to any “license, permit, certificate, commission, charter, registration, card, or other similar authority that…
On November 5, 2020, the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth Appellate District, issued a decision that expanded access to sealing records of convictions to a new category of offender. Generally speaking, records of convictions may be sealed if the offender has been convicted of…
In January 2020, a Cincinnati Enquirer reporter sought investigation materials and University of Cincinnati law enforcement records after the university gave a graduation award to a student with a sex offender conviction. UC denied the public records request, stating that law enforcement records in the…
The Ohio Pharmacy Board’s ability to license close to 30,000 Pharmacy Technicians (including Certified, Registered and Trainees) serves as one of its greatest successes over the past two years. Unfortunately, much of the Board’s labors and efforts stand precariously close to ruin by an enemy…
By: Todd Lacksonen & Brandon Smith In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the general impact of the currently-ongoing pandemic on telemedicine. In Part 2 of this series, we addressed the changes already implemented by the Ohio Department of Medicaid and the State Medical Board…
