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NewsMedical board lacks resources to punish dangerous docs
Earlier this year, consumer advocacy group Public Citizen called for the Department of Health & Human Services to investigate state medical boards for failing to punish doctors with serious Read more...
CMS failed to report disciplined providers
Databases are only as good as the data within. Unfortunately, a national database of Medicare providers has more holes than expected, thanks to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services failure to Read more...
Dangerous caregivers missing from federal database due to poor state-level reporting
State boards and agencies around the country failed to alert the federal government of health professionals they disciplined, leaving huge gaps in the federal database that hospitals use to weed out Read more...
State medical boards are 'under-disciplining' doctors, watchdog group finds
Overall, the rate at which states took serious disciplinary actions against doctors--including revocations, surrenders, suspensions and probation/restrictions--rose slightly in 2009. Still, that Read more...
CA governor sweeps California nursing board
Apparently, a scathing article in the Los Angeles Times can produce results. Yesterday, we told you that an in-depth investigation by The Times and an independent research organization concluded that Read more...
CA nursing board leaves dangerous nurses on job
In theory, professional medical boards exist to protect patients from dangerous clinicians. In practice, however, that's not always the case. That's particularly true in the state of California, Read more...
Minnesota ranks last when disciplining doctors, Public Citizen says
Well, don't say you weren't warned. As per its tradition, Public Citizen has taken the data just released from the group representing state boards of medicine and immediately given it a spin of its Read more...
Doctor disciplinary actions up a hair in '08, but serious actions lower
Last year, state medical boards took slightly more disciplinary actions against doctors than they had in 2007, though the number of more-serious sanctions such license revocations, suspensions and Read more...
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