...Darren Grant; Kelly C. Alfred This article descriptively assesses how physicians are disciplined by state medical boards throughout the United States, drawing on a nationwide database of sanctions delivered during the period 1994-2002. We identify the frequency and severity of disciplinary actions...

...Denise F. Lillvis; Robert J. McGrath Abstract State medical boards are increasingly responsible for regulating medical and osteopathic licensure and professional conduct in the United States. Yet, there is great variation in the extent to which such boards take disciplinary action against...

... of understanding about pain policies, we examine the critical role played by state medical boards in developing pain policies and then apply event history analysis to identify the variables most critical to the formation of these policies. We develop an integrated model and evaluate the adoption of eight different...

...David Barton Smith Abstract Unnecessary surgery has been a focus of health policy concern for decades. Such events are supposed to be prevented by the (a) self-policing of hospital medical staffs, (b) oversight of state medical boards, (c) third-party restrictions on payment, and (d) threat...

... University of Vermont Zeynep K. Hansen Boise State University Abstract  This article investigates the relationship between the characteristics of medical licensing boards and the frequency with which...

... is that acupuncture services are scarce or unavailable in most states, and the public's newly recognized right to acupuncture treatment is therefore burdened or effectively denied. Current statutory and medical board regulation of acupuncture is described and evaluated from the standpoint of whether it encourages...

... antitrust agencies, this article reviews the doctrine and discusses its application in the health care sector, focusing on the ability of states to immunize anticompetitive actions by state licensing and regulatory boards, hospital medical staffs, and public hospitals, as well as anticompetitive mergers...

... uncoordinated, health planning and health resources development agencies into one coordinated program. The program is to consist of a statutorily restricted federal agency which will generally oversee the operation of the program, a state program directed by a consumer-dominated board and a series of locally...

... institutions overseen by boards of trustees. Canada and the United States view the challenges confronting the Canadian system differently. To Canadians, the real issue is how to improve the management of a popular, effective, and heretofore affordable system, so as to preserve it in a more hostile economic...

... in certain specialties and in certain locations and in terms of complaints by consumers that state medical boards ought to strictly sanction and more closely monitor those doctors who have engaged in negligent or other- wise wrongful medical practice. Jan Ambrose and Anne Carroll exam- ine state...

... of the major reasons that efforts to establish a state licensing board had been defeated for nearly three decades preceding 18%. The state medical society, repre- senting some members of the “regular” school of medicine,20proposed the legislation, but opposition usually arose from the eclectics...

... and Brian Kaskie’s article then looks at the other end of the life spectrum, as they examine why it is that so many of us die painful deaths without access to good palliative care or pain-management pro- grams. Imhof and Kaskie point out that state medical boards have a signif- icant impact...

... 2007 Contributors Kelly C. Alfred oversees the licensure division of the Physician Data Center for the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), a national not-for-profit organization that represents the seventy medical boards...

...: An Equity Imperative . Edited by Felicia Marie Knaul, Julie R. Gralow, Rifat Atun, and Afsan Bhadelia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. 404 pp. $24.95 paper. Medical Licensing and Discipline in America: A History of the Federation of State Medical Boards . David Johnson and Humayun J...

..., Policy and Law 22 (1): 147 -184. Fleming, W. 2000 . Moderator of panel discussion on scope-of-practice issues . Annual meeting of the Federation of State Medical Boards, Dallas, 13–15 April. Ginzberg, E. 1990 . The Medical Triangle:Physicians, Politicians, and the Public . Cambridge: Harvard...

... from Johns Hopkins University. He was a partner in the Baltimore law firm Niles, Barton & Wilmer and is a former assis- tant attorney general and deputy counsel to the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Ameringer is the author of State Medical Boards and the Politics of Public...

... treatment options. Unlike drugs, surgical innovations are not subject to Food and Drug Administration review and may diffuse into general use without rigorous documentation of their safety and efficacy. In theory, patients are protected against unnecessary surgeries by oversight of state medical boards...

... from Johns Hopkins University. He is a former assistant attorney general and deputy counsel to the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Ameringer is the author of State Medical Boards and the Politics of Public Protection (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999). His current research...