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…
As COVID-19 vaccines have begun to be distributed across Ohio these past six weeks, much has been said about the somewhat unusual storage and temperature requirements and their consequences. For example, local and national headlines have detailed alleged intentional spoiling of vaccine doses by a…
The State Medical Board of Ohio has published a request for public comment regarding proposed revisions to its hearing rules. For the most part, the proposed rules reflect the Board’s adoption of technological advancements. Examples include rule revisions to address use of the Board’s online…
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…
