Consultant for Defense Attorneys in Clinician’s License or Hospital Cases

Areas of Expertise

Potential Violations

  • Billing errors
  • Boundary violations
  • Breaches of the standard of care
  • Confidentiality/HIPAA breaches
  • Criminal actions by clinicians
  • Deficient EMR skills
  • Disruptive clinician behaviors
  • Errors in completing applications
  • Failure to refer
  • Inadequate documentation
  • Inadequate monitoring of patient care
  • Inadequate supervision of others
  • Insurance fraud
  • On-line unprofessional postings
  • Practicing under drug/alcohol influence
  • Prescribing errors
  • Sexual boundary violations
  • Etc.

Factors Leading to Violations

  • Administrator interference with safe care
  • Clinician mental health disorders
  • Clinician cognitive distortion
  • Cultural misunderstanding of patients
  • High complaint risk patients (e.g., SUD, personality disorders, PTSD, ADHD)
  • Inadequate personal life of clinician
  • Patient overload
  • Practice type (e.g., pain management, psychiatry, aesthetics, solo practice)
  • Toxic work environments
  • Etc.

Pro-Active Defense Measures

  • Adjust personal-professional life balance
  • Engage a mentor
  • Engage a Physician Health Program
  • Engage a record monitor
  • Initiate directed psychotherapy
  • Initiate prescribing limitations
  • Join support groups (e.g., AA)
  • Develop appropriate use of chaperones
  • Minimize resistant client attitudes
  • Prevent causes of cognitive distortion
  • Take remedial education courses
  • Etc.