May 2019 Digital Edition

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Practical guidance to aid healthcare employers in navigating OSHA’s continued focus on workplace violence

By Pamela Williams, Fisher Phillips, Houston   It has been estimated that healthcare employees are approximately four times more likely than workers in other fields to be victims of workplace violence. In 2015, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued guidelines for preventing workplace violence in the healthcare and social services industries. Since that time, OSHA has heightened its focus on this area and has issued employer citations relating to incidents involving workplace violence....

Top 10 Physician Groups by Medicare Procedures

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Why do people steal?

By Reed Tinsley, CPA, CVA, CFP, CHBC   One of the most frequent comments I hear once the identity of an embezzler is confirmed is that he or she is “the last person I could imagine stealing.” Their surprise is understandable. We all have preconceptions about how criminals look, dress, speak, and act. Our mental image of the criminal is shaped by what we see on the news, TV dramas and by direct observation in...

CBD: Legal status and clinical practice issues

By Beth Anne Jackson and Elizabeth Jepson, Brown & Fortunato, P.C. With the passage of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (Farm Bill) in December 2018, Congress established a new category of cannabis: hemp, which is defined as cannabis with 0.3 percent or less concentration of compound delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).  Further, the Farm Bill specified that the definition of the term “marihuana” under the Controlled Substance Act does not include “hemp.”   Many assumed that the...

Houston Methodist Clear Lake to build new medical office building

Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital will begin construction soon on a six-story, 150,000-square-foot medical office building on land adjacent to its campus – the first phase in a multi-year expansion plan.   The $40 million medical office building will be home to Houston Methodist Orthopedics & Sports Medicine at Clear Lake as well as the hospital’s physical therapy facilities. The building’s upper floors will contain office and clinic space for physicians from a broad range...

What is extra virginity?

By Victor S. Sierpina, MD, ABFM, ABIHM, Director, Medical Student Education Program, WD and Laura Nell Nicholson Family Professor of Integrative Medicine, Professor, Family Medicine University of Texas Distinguished Teaching Professor   Not long ago, a friend and our lovely spouses were having lunch at a tony neighborhood Italian restaurant in Austin. While ordering, my amigo Dr. Donald Counts, a well-respected Austin integrative medicine doc, inquired closely with the server as to the source and...

Ending surprise billing for Texas patients

By Ted Shaw, President/CEO, Texas Hospital Association   Patients should never be surprised by unexpected bills for out-of-pocket costs for emergency or unplanned health care services.   Unexpected bills distract patients from healing and recovery and a perpetuate a false notion that health care works against patients. This deters some from seeking the care they need, which ultimately exacerbates the severity of existing conditions and prolongs recovery—health outcomes and philosophies that Texas hospitals, physicians and...

UTMB professor named a 2019 Piper Award Winner

The Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation selected a University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston professor as a 2019 Piper Professor.   Dr. Carolyn Utsey, a professor and chair of the Department of Physical Therapy at UTMB, was honored with the prestigious award and received a $5,000 grant from the foundation. The Piper Professor Awards were first introduced in 1958 and honor effective and dedicated professors from two- and four-year colleges and universities in Texas.  ...

An open-label, multi-cohort Phase II trial, led by investigators at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, reports that treatment with the drug tagraxofusp resulted in high response rates in patients with blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN), a rare but highly aggressive – and often fatal bone marrow and blood disorder – for which there are no existing approved therapies.   The trial was the largest prospectively designed multi-center, multi-cycle clinical study specifically...

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