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Helping Colleagues' Boundaries: Top 10 Tips
If the behavior makes the physician a continuing threat to public welfare, a physician is required to report it to the Texas Medical Board. Otherwise, a physician may report to the Texas Medical Board, the Texas Medical Association, or to a hospital […]
Maintaining Boundaries: Top 10 Tips
There is a clear imbalance of power between a physician and a patient. The patient exposes himself or herself and is highly vulnerable. No matter what the patient says or does, a physician will be held to higher expectations. The physician must at all […]
Avoiding a NPDB Report: Top 10 Tips
If you are a focus of a health care entity investigation, before you resign clinical privileges or let them expire, resolve any such investigation and confirm that no affirmative report to the NPDB will be filed against you. Get assistance from a health […]
Understanding the NPDB: Top 10 Tips
It is used to inform health care organizations (such as hospitals, health plans, state licensing boards, and other health care regulatory entities) of a "reportable event." NPDB reports are used, along with other source data, when a practitioner is considered […]
Post-Injury Waivers are Major Source of Protection for Non-Subscribers
Non-subscribers may be sued by their employees for on-the-job injuries and non-subscribers are also limited in the defenses they are allowed to assert. To minimize this exposure, most employers who have opted out of the Texas workers’ compensation […]
Part 3 of 3: Biggest Disadvantage to “Opting Out” of Texas Workers Compensation System
The biggest reason most employers elect to provide workers’ compensation benefits is to avoid the risk of litigation. An employer who provides workers’ compensation benefits to injured workers cannot be sued by the employee (or third parties) for […]
Part 2 of 3: The Two Primary Advantages to “Opting Out” of the Texas Workers Compensation System
Employers often see a significant cost reduction by becoming a non-subscriber. Once an employer opts out of worker's compensation and develops its own employee injury benefit plan, the employer is able to avoid paying workers’ compensation premiums […]
Part 1 of 3: Should you “Opt Out” of the Texas Workers Compensation System?
Currently, the majority of employers in Texas still elect to participate in the State’s workers’ compensation system but an ever-increasing number of employers are finding that the benefits of becoming a “non-subscriber” outweigh the benefits […]