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• Maintaining Your License to Practice Medicine
  Learn how to make sure your medical license is renewed and current.
• Setting the Record Straight: What You Need to Know about Medical Records
  From ownership rights to copying fees, Setting the Record Straight will help you make sure you’re handling these vital documents appropriately and legally.
• Physician Reporting to PennDOT
  This publication includes visual standards, epilepsy and other physical and medical standards for drivers of motor vehicles and information on provider liability and patient confidentiality
• Practice Guidelines for Physician Assistants and Certified Registered Nurse Practitioners
  A resource for physician practices to understand licensure, scope of practice, and reimbursement rules and guidelines for these positions.
• Physicians Can Write Multiple Prescriptions for Some Controlled Substances
  A new DEA regulation allows physicians to write a patient multiple prescriptions—to be filled sequentially—for the same Schedule II controlled substance.
• Workers' Compensation Medical Cost Containment (PA Code)
  Regulations implementing the Workers' Compensation Act relating to payments for medical treatment by insurers or self-insured employers and the review of medical treatment of employees with work-related injuries and illnesses.
• Your Right to Timely Payment Under Act 68
  Act 68 requires health insurers to remit payment for clean claims within 45 days of receipt.
• School Immunization Regulations (PA Code)
  State regulation listing the immunization requirements of children entering and attending schools in the commonwealth.
• Screening for Diseases of the Newborn
  Some newborn diseases must be reported to the state.
• Physician Licensure Regulations (MDs and DOs)
  Links to MD and DO licensure regulations from the State Board of Medicine and the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine.
• Primary Health Centers (PA Code)
  A community-based, nonprofit corporation that provides preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, and basic emergency health services by licensed practitioners to patients who may require a variety of medical services can apply to the Department of Health to become designated as a primary health center if it meets the minimum standards outlined in the regulations.
• Regulatory Review Process
  The regulatory review process is lengthy and complex.
• Clarification of DEA Requirements if Practicing in More Than One State
  The Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) amended registration regulations require physicians who practice in more than one state to obtain a separate DEA registration for each state.
• DEA Considering New Rule for Prescribing Controlled Substances
  This proposed rule would allow physicians to issue multiple Schedule II prescriptions during single office visit.
• Act 6: A Crash Course in Auto Accident Reimbursement
  A concise run-down of the steps you need to take to get appropriately reimbursed for care of patients injured in a motor vehicle accident.
• Disease Reporting
  This publication includes lists of reportable diseases, how and where to report, confidentiality rules, and penalties for failing to report.

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