In the wake of the Ohio Medical Board’s latest temporary extension to the deferred enforcement of Ohio’s Telemedicine Rules, the Ohio State Legislature is contemplating a permanent expansion to the existing rules. On September 29, 2021, the Senate’s Health Committee held its second hearing on…
As part of their reinstatement and/or probation terms imposed by an Adjudication Order or Consent Agreement with the Ohio Board of Nursing, Ohio licensed nurses who are required to abstain from drug and/or alcohol are required to submit to random screening through FS Solutions. Effective…
When new COVID 19 case infection rates dipped during the Spring of 2021, the State Medical Board of Ohio sought to end its deferred enforcement Ohio’s Telemedicine Rules and signaled that the grace period window would close on September 17, 2021. However, with the recent…
The law requires that copies of public records must be made available at cost. A public office acts within its discretion when it declines a public records request based on a good faith belief that the party requesting the records was unable to pay for…
Effective April 12, 2021, the State Medical Board of Ohio stopped issuing licenses to Cosmetic Therapists. By discontinuing licensing at the state level, Ohio joins the vast majority of states that do not require a license for laser hair removal. However, while Ohio no longer…
The fallout from The Ohio State University’s investigation of Dr. Richard Strauss’s decades-long and decades-old abuse continues. In 2019, by Executive Order 2019-16D, Governor DeWine created a working group to review the State Medical Board of Ohio’s investigation into Dr. Strauss. Following the Working Group’s…
Any person who feeds or boards an animal under contract with the owner has a lien on such animal to secure payment for food and board furnished. The contract does not need to be in writing. This is known as an agister’s lien. The process…
In mid-January 2021, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a significant shift in addiction medicine policy that would have allowed most doctors to prescribe buprenorphine to treat opioid use disorder without taking the current training or receiving a DEA DATA2000…
The Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System (OARRS) was developed as a tool to track the prescribing and dispensing of controlled substance prescriptions. At its core, OARRS is a database of all outpatient prescriptions for controlled substances dispensed or personally furnished by Ohio providers and pharmacies….
Douglas Graff of Graff & McGovern is representing several plaintiffs in a defamation suit brought against Mount Carmel Health System based upon the hospital throwing them “under the bus” when it investigated Dr. William Husel, who was indicted in 2019 on twenty-five counts of murder…
