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…
Physicians, physician assistants, and others licensed by the State Medical Board of Ohio can be subjected to discipline, up to and including permanent revocation of their medical license, for failing to cooperate in a Medical Board investigation or for failing to answer truthfully questions presented…
On December 4, 2020, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would no longer make marijuana a controlled substance, allowing for a shared Federal and State regulatory system. The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act passed in the House with 222 of…
Under an emergency law effective November 22, 2020, Ohio licenses set to expire between March 9, 2020 and April 1, 2021 are now valid until July 1, 2021. This extension applies to any “license, permit, certificate, commission, charter, registration, card, or other similar authority that…
