Category: Professional Licensure and Discipline

A certified letter arrives with a dreaded return address: “Board of Registration in Medicine, Wakefield, MA.” Now what? 1. Do not respond hastily. Resist the temptation to answer it yourself immediately, in the hopes that a...

The Board of Registration in Medicine has released its December 2018 license application revision. While the application is better-organized with clearer instructions, there are significant substantive changes with a common theme:  the Board wants more information about you. Here are the highlights: Disclose investigations that exonerated you.  “Supplement” Question 7...

It’s happened—you received a subpoena for patient records from an attorney representing your patient. This is the first in a two part series. The second part will address the circumstance where you receive a subpoena or a request for records from your licensing board. Now what do you do?...

Tips for Avoiding or Responding to Licensing Board Investigations is a series of blog posts written by attorney Andra Hutchins. In this series we provide practical advice for health care professionals including psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, dentists, and social workers. Attorneys Kerstein and Hutchins have more than 35 years of experience...

Massachusetts has a reputation for having one of the most challenging physician license applications in the U.S.  The Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine (“MA Medical Board”) is strict, exacting and concerned about the slightest flaw or inconsistency on your application or in your background. The MA Medical Board...

On September 21, 2011, partner Andrew Hyams testified on the proposed Board of Registration of Medicine Regulations. He testified that the Board’s proposed amendments would undermine physician licensure rights in several respects. To read his testimony, click here.

Physicians under investigation are routinely unable to respond to Board of Registration in Medicine inquiries because they are unaware of the charges to which they are required to respond. The denial of copies of complaints and materials related to those complaints to the physician who stands accused violates the Board’s enabling statute...

Physicians under investigation are routinely unable to respond to Board of Registration in Medicine inquiries because they are unaware of the nature and specifics of the charges to which they are required to respond. The denial of copies of complaints and materials related to those complaints to the physician who stands accused...

Any physician contemplating resignation from a position at a health care facility needs to be aware of a Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine “mouse trap” that can place him or her in professional peril.

Statement of Andrew L. Hyams, Esq. Concerning Proposed Regulations of the Board of Registration in Medicine 243 CMR 2.00 Governing Licensing Provisions and the Practice of Medicine, April 14, 2010 I was the Board’s General Counsel from 1985 to 1990. I left the Board to obtain a Master of...