The North Carolina Medical Board will discontinue its practice of conducting annual, random site visits at physician assistant (PA) practice locations.

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Employed practitioners must comply with HR policies, such as those surrounding orientation, patient safety, and risk management. Such requirements, which promote understanding of the organization’s culture and compliance with regulations and standards regarding patient care and safety, should also apply to the non-employed physicians who will be rendering services on site.

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The United States District Court for the Western District of Texas (the “Court”) ordered a National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) report submitted about a physician be voided after it concluded that the defendants “acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner.” 

Over the years, specialty boards, despite the fact that they themselves often discuss the content of their examinations on their own websites and even offer a range of paid proprietary test-prep courses, have increased their efforts to go after practicing physicians who may or may not have revealed information about the content of these tests.