Preparation for the worst case in a DEA opioid investigation means having the clinical records, the compliance infrastructure, and the legal relationships...
Protection from a DEA investigation is not something a practice achieves on the day investigators appear at the door. It is something built over months...
The most direct path to speaking with an attorney about a federal healthcare fraud matter is through a direct phone call to the attorney's office, a...
The question is important for practitioners because the patterns of painkiller misuse are the patterns that the DEA uses to assess whether a prescriber's...
The corporate practice of medicine doctrine is a state law principle that prohibits corporations from employing physicians to practice medicine or from...
Ketamine is a Schedule III controlled substance under the federal Controlled Substances Act. Its scheduling reflects a regulatory determination, made and...
The government does not make clinical determinations. It makes statistical ones, and then it retains a physician expert to translate those statistics into...
Urine drug testing in a controlled substance prescribing practice is both a clinical tool and a compliance mechanism, and its importance for both purposes...
The number is large enough to have defined a public health emergency and shaped federal law enforcement priorities for more than a decade. It is also a...