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Did you or someone you know fail a tier II anesthesia inspection by the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners (TSBDE)?

If so, you/they are not alone. Unfortunately, hundreds of dentists failed a tier II anesthesia inspection. The TSBDE is making good on their promise to re-inspect those who failed.

Some dentists were recently re-inspected and are getting ‘jammed up’ over ‘repeated failures’.

As you are probably aware, more and more state boards of dentistry and state legislatures have enacted laws and/or rules requiring things like provider education, patient assessment guidelines, prescribing parameters, big brother is watching programs, and so on. With some exceptions, states have availed (even required) providers to review their prescriber histories and their patients’ controlled substance histories prior to issuing prescriptions for controlled prescription drugs. Whatever the state drug database is called (Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP), a Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) or something far more unique (CURES in California, OARRS in Ohio)) and whatever your state’s requirements here...

If so, the DEA wants them back. As of October 30, 2021, the Drug Enforcement Administration mandated the use of single sheet DEA 222 Forms for those providers who prescribe schedule 2 controlled substances (meperidine/Demerol, and fentanyl). At this time, triplicate DEA 222 forms are no longer be available or utilized, according to federal law. To order the single sheet forms, DEA registrants are instructed to visit the form request page. They will need the information from their registration certificate in order to login. For DEA registrants who still have unused triplicate DEA Forms 222, the DEA is asking that they be returned...

HIPAA Compliance can save you hundreds of thousands to millions in fines and penalties.  The goalposts for HIPAA compliance change due to new requirements the evolution of case law.  There’s a storm brewing, and you need to listen to this one….It’s gonna cost you.  In recent years healthcare providers have paid through the nose for HIPAA violations. Their greatest liability? People. Yes, people are the biggest threat to privacy and information security. See all it takes is one of employee to open an e-mail, click on a link, or open an attachment they shouldn’t open (and perhaps not even reports it to...