Can on-call physician refuse to show up?
Answer: No, only in circumstances beyond his control
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Can on-call physician refuse to show up?
Answer: No, only in circumstances beyond his control
What are the 3 penalties for hospitals and physicians for violation of EMTALA? What is the maximum damage?
Answer: Civil money penalties, termination of provider agreement, civil action. Up to $50,000 per violation ($25,000 for < 100 beds)
Can a patient initiate his/her own transfer?
Answer: Yes
How many people on the Texas Medical board?
Answer: 19
How many MDs on the TMB?
Answer: 12
How many layperson on the TMB?
Answer: 7
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Can on-call physician refuse to show up? | Answer: No, only in circumstances beyond his control |
What are the 3 penalties for hospitals and physicians for violation of EMTALA? What is the maximum damage? | Answer: Civil money penalties, termination of provider agreement, civil action. Up to $50,000 per violation ($25,000 for < 100 beds) |
Can a patient initiate his/her own transfer? | Answer: Yes |
How many people on the Texas Medical board? | Answer: 19 |
How many MDs on the TMB? | Answer: 12 |
How many layperson on the TMB? | Answer: 7 |
How often does the police run a check on physicians? | Answer: Monthly |
How often does the TMB put out reports on physicians? | Answer: Every 6 months |
How many years of postgraduate training to apply for full license? | Answer: 1 |
If a resident does not show up to begin his training, how many days does the program director have to report that to the board? | Answer: 30 |
Institutional permit: how many months for initial license? How many renewals? How many months for each renewal? | Answer: 14 months; 7; 12 months |
Physician-in-training permit: how many months for initial license? How many renewals? How many months for each renewal? | Answer: 18 months; 6; 18 months |
How often do you register your license with the TMB? | Answer: Every 2 years |
How many days prior to expiration of your license does the board notify you? | Answer: 30 |
How many days after expiration are you considered practicing without a license? | Answer: 30 |
How many days after expiration is license canceled? | Answer: 365 |
How many category 1 CMEs per year? | Answer: 12 |
How many ethics CME credits? | Answer: 1 yearly |
How many CME credits can be from volunteering? | Answer: 6 |
How many CMEs can you carry forward? | Answer: 48 |
How often must the board give update to all participants in a complaint? | Answer: Every 3 months (quarterly) |
How much time do insurances have to report malpractice to the board? | Answer: 30 days |
If disciplinary action is taken by the board, how much time to report to the hospital verbally? In writing? To the NPDB? | Answer: Verbally immediately to hospitals on first working day; in writing to all hospitals and agencies within 30 days. |
How much time to report court reports to the board? | Answer: 30 days |
How many malpractice claims in what time frame to trigger board investigation? | Answer: 3 within 5 years |
How many people from the board to emergency suspend license? | Answer: 3 |
How many days does a physician have to file appeal to a board decision? Which county? | Answer: 30 days; Travis county |
How soon and how often can you file for reinstatement of a license? | Answer: After one year; once a year. |
Maximum administrative penalty by board? By attorney general? | Answer: $5000 per violation; $1000 per violation. |
How much time to pay an administrative penalty by the board? | Answer: 30 days. |
How many days can NPs and PAs prescribe? How many refills? For patients how old? | Answer: 30 days, no refills; older than 2 years. |
How many PA equivalents can an MD supervise? | Answer: 3 full-time employees |
What percentage of random charts of the PA must the physician review? | Answer: 10% |
How far can secondary practice sites be located from primary? | Answer: 60 miles |
How many days does board have to give information to requesting hospitals? | Answer: 15 days |
How many days do you have to correct changes in your TMB profile? | Answer: 30 days |
How many days do you get to review your data the FIRST time the board releases it? | Answer: 15 business days. |
How often does a physician have to resubmit his core data if there were no changes? | Answer: Once a year. |
How many days before hospital hearing must a physician be notified? | Answer: 30 days. |
A suspension in the hospital must be reported if it lasts for how long? Within what time must it be reported? | Answer: More than 30 days; 15 days. |
Until what age is one considered a minor? | Answer: 18 years |
How many witnesses do you need for advanced directive? For verbal directive to physician? For out-of-hospital DNR? | Answer: 2; 2; 2 |
How many witnesses for a mental health directive? | Answer: 2 |
How long until mental health directive expires? How long until medical directives expire? | Answer: 3 years; no limit. |
How many days does a physician have to give records to patient? Hospital? Attorney? | Answer: 15 business days; 15 business days; 45 days. |
How many days does patient have to pay fees for requested records? | Answer: 10 days. |
What are the fees for copied records? Postage or not? | Answer: $25 for first 20 pages, then 15¢ per page plus postage. |
How many years must a physician keep records for adults? For minors? From what age? | Answer: 7 years; 7 years or age 21. |
How many years must hospitals keep records for adults? For minors? From what age? | Answer: 10 years; 10 years or 20th birthday. |
How many days does a hospital have to send itemized bill if requested? | Answer: 30 business days. |
What is the economic cap on noneconomic damages in Texas per defendant/claimant? | Answer: $250,000 |
How long is the statute of limitations for adults? Minors? | Answer: 2 years; 2 years from age 18. |
When must a claimant send a letter, and by how long can he/she extend the statute of limitations? | Answer: Within 60 days; extends by 75 days. |
How many yards from ER is considered campus? | Answer: 250 yards. |
How many years must you keep records of transferred patients? | Answer: 5 years. |
What is the maximum monetary penalty for a hospital violating EMTALA? | Answer: $50,000, $25,000 if < 100 beds. |
How long do physicians have to keep screening test records from the first visit of a pregnant woman? | Answer: 9 months. |
How many days does a physician have to notify the DPS of a third trimester abortion? | Answer: 30 days. |
What is the cut-off gestational age for office-based abortions? | Answer: 16 weeks. |
How long prior to abortion must you give the woman information on abortion (verbal/written)? | Answer: 24 hours. |
How much time prior to abortion must parents of a minor be notified? | Answer: 48 hours. |
How many abortions per year make you an abortion facility that must be licensed? | Answer: 50. |
How often does licensed abortion facility submit records to TSDHS? | Answer: Yearly. |
How many times must you check newborn for genetic disorders? | Answer: 2. |
How long can a mother + newborn stay in the hospital paid by insurance after birth with vaginal delivery/cesarean section? | Answer: 48 hrs/96 hrs |
Until when must an insurance pay for hearing screening? Follow-up hearing screening? | Answer: 30 days; 2 years |
How many days do you have to submit birth certificate? | Answer: 5 days. |
After what age can you take possession of an abandoned baby? | Answer: 60 days or less |
How many days does the funeral director have to file death certificate? | Answer: 10 days |
How many days does the physician have to fill out death certificate? | Answer: 5 days. |
Over what weight must a death certificate be filled out for a fetus? | Answer: 350 grams. |
If weight is not known, over what gestational age? | Answer: 20 weeks. |
SIDS is for children of less than what age? | Answer: 12 months. |
When do you have to report SIDS? | Answer: Immediately. |
Death of a child of what age or younger must be reported to the medical examiner? Within what time frame? | Answer: 6 years; immediately |
How many days after catastrophe to get "certificate of death by catastrophe"?Xlibris. Kindle Edition. | Answer: 10 days. |
If a patient dies within how many hours of admission must an inquest be ordered? | Answer: 24 hours. |
A mentally retarded person of what age can donate a kidney if the guardian petitions the court? | Answer: 12 years. |
After how many days can a blood bank pay for blood donation? | Answer: 15 days. |
A person older than what age can voluntarily commit self to psychiatry? | Answer: 16 years |
How often do private psychiatry hospitals file reports? | Answer: Yearly. |
What age do you have to be to get ECT? | Answer: 16 |
How often do you renew DEA license? DPS license? | Answer: Every 3 years; yearly. |
How many days to you have to inform the DPS of change in information? | Answer: 7. |
How many days of pills can a patient get of schedule 2-5 when discharged from the hospital? | Answer: 7. |
How many days to send written prescription to pharmacy of schedule 2 drug? | Answer: 7. |
How long is a schedule 2 script valid? How many refills? Schedule 3-5 valid? Refills? Dangerous drugs valid? Refills? | Answer: 7 days; no refills; 6 months; 5 refills; unlimited; unlimited. |
How often do you need to do inventory on your drugs? | Answer: Every 2 years. |
How often do you have to register with the board and pay a fee to administer anesthesia? | Answer: Every 2 years. |
How many days do you have to report an office-based anesthesia complication? | Answer: 15 days. |
How much time do you have to report a death from communicable disease? | Answer: Immediately. |
How much time to report a gunshot wound? | Answer: Immediately. |
What is the monetary penalty for violation of anti-kickback laws for physicians? Hospitals? | Answer: $25,000-$250,000 / $50,000-$500,000. |
How much time does a physician have to report child abuse? | Answer: Immediately; 48 hours in writing. |
How much time does a professional (not medical professional) have to report child abuse? | Answer: 48 hours. |
How much time do professionals/physicians have to report death of a child secondary to abuse? | Answer: 48 hours. |
How much time do you have to report nursing home abuse verbally? In writing? | Answer: Immediately; 5 days. |
If a nursing home resident dies after transfer to a hospital, within what time frame must be reported? | Answer: 24 hours. |
How much time does the nursing home have to report elderly death? | Answer: 10 days after the end of the month of death. |
What are the age limits to consider abuse a criminal offense? | Answer: 14 or younger, 65 or older; older than 14 and disabled. |