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The South Carolina Board of Medical Examiners has recently sent a notice out regarding restricting prescribing for doctors who practice via telemedicine. Here’s the notice that was sent: “In follow-up to the BME’s previous eblast regarding prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine: South Carolina state law restricts the prescribing of Scheduled II and Schedule III narcotics…
There has recently been some confusion as to whether or not the state of Michigan is leaving the IMLCC. A client forwarded an email to me that they had received from the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners in March of 2025 that stated that the Michigan Board of Medicine was leaving the IMLC. The…
In a significant move to address the growing healthcare needs of the state, the Alabama House recently passed the Physician Workforce Act. The legislation aims to tackle the shortage of doctors in Alabama, recognizing the pressing need for a robust healthcare workforce to meet the demands of the population. The Physician Workforce Act, which received…
In a groundbreaking move, Tennessee has become the first state to revolutionize medical licensing for International Medical Graduates (IMGs) or Foreign Medical Graduates (FMGs) by allowing them to practice without completing a U.S. medical residency. This decision marks a significant shift in the traditional pathway to medical licensure in the United States and opens new…
Florida Physicians Required to Maintain Clinical Activity: A Crucial Step Towards Ensuring Quality Healthcare In a move aimed at enhancing the quality of healthcare services in the Sunshine State, Florida has implemented a groundbreaking regulation requiring physicians to maintain clinical activity for at least two out of every four years. This progressive step not only…
DEA Registered-Practitioners Dear Registrants: On December 29, 2022, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 enacted a new one-time, eight-hour training requirement for all Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)-registered practitioners on the treatment and management of patients with opioid or other substance use disorders. Below is information on this new requirement. Who is responsible for satisfying this…
Alabama News Regarding the Bridge Year Physician Limited Permit (2023 Physician Workforce Act) The Physician Workforce Act of 2023 provides for limited, supervised practice for physicians who applied to, but were not accepted into, a residency training program for the first year following medical school graduation (“bridge year graduate physicians”). The physician must be a…
Great news for physicians with many existing state medical licenses. Here is a list of states that no longer require applicants to obtain verification of past and present licensure directly from the originating state medical boards. If, for any reason, these states can not pull the license verifications from other sources, they will ask the…