Navigating California administrative law takes knowledge, experience and skill.
Health Care
Whether you are nationally recognized surgeon, a respected RN or a beloved family physician, all it takes to be under investigation is one complaint or insurance settlement.
Your response to a complaint or investigation is important. We help our clients defend themselves without being defensive, and we have the experience to see what is important. We know when to fight or take corrective action. There is always a best course and we guide our clients in making the best decisions at every step of the process.
We have extensive experience handling:
- Investigations
- Accusations
- Administrative Hearings
- Appeals by Petition for Writ of Mandate
- Appeals to the Court of Appeal
- Petitions for Reinstatement
- License Denials
- Mental Health Evaluations
Our cases involve allegations related to:
- Prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines
- Standard of care and negligence
- Unprofessional conduct
- Corporate practice of medicine
- Medical recordkeeping
- Sexual misconduct
- Arrests and criminal convictions
- Alcohol or drug use
- Accusation / Statement of Issues
- Alcohol / Drugs
- Arrests
- Credential Issues
- Criminal Convictions
- CURES / Prescribing
- DUI
- Foreign Medical Schools
- Investigations / Complaints
- Medi-Cal
- Mental / Physical Evaluations
- National Practitioner Data Bank
- Negligence / Gross Negligence
- Non-Adoption of Proposed Decision
- PTAL (Postgraduate Training Authorization Letter)
- Reinstatement / Termination of Probation
- Settlement Conference
- Sexual Misconduct
- Statute of Limitations
California Medical Board Postgraduate Training Licenses
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California Registered Nurses (RNs) have always been required to disclose criminal convictions on license applications and on license renewal applications.Stephen Boreman Calls on Medical Board to End Probation for Single DUI Convictions
California's attitudes toward drunk driving and the laws reflecting those attitudes, including the laws, policies and regulations of the Medical Board of California, find their roots in the political success of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), a private, non-profit organization.IRB Creep Threatens Innovative Treatment in California
In light of research abuses committed in the 20th Century such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service between 1932 and 1972, and radiation experiments conducted during the Cold War, Congress passed the National Research Act of 1974.Deferred Entry of Judgment: Do I Have to Report it to My Licensing Agency in CA?
After successful completion of diversion or deferred entry of judgment in California under Penal Code sections 1001.9 and 1000.