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Healthcare licensure regulation is a niche area of the law. Few attorneys practice it or practice it often. Joseph, Hollander & Craft’s Overland Park healthcare licensure defense attorneys practice it day in and day out. We have decades of experience helping professionals in the healthcare industry deal with licensing issues, so we understand the unique challenges and problems our clients face. If you are facing a licensing matter, you can trust JHC’s Overland Park healthcare licensure defense lawyers to protect your career.

Overland Park Healthcare Licensure Defense Lawyers for All Healthcare Professionals

JHC’s Overland Park healthcare licensing defense attorneys are unrivaled in their ability to defend medical professionals before regulatory boards. On JHC’s healthcare licensure defense team, you will find a former Assistant General Counsel to the Kansas Board of Healing Arts and a healthcare defense advocate who has more than 20 years’ experience representing healthcare providers as both a private practitioner or as the risk management manager for a major Kansas hospital. That experience prepared JHC’s licensing defense lawyers to mount an effective defense for healthcare professionals with all manner of licensure, regulatory, and disciplinary matters.

How Our Overland Park Healthcare Licensure Defense Lawyers Can Help

Our Overland Park licensure defense attorneys represent a variety of healthcare professionals before a wide range of regulatory agencies, including the:

• Kansas Board of Healing Arts / Missouri Board of Professional Registrations. We represent medical doctors, osteopathic doctors, chiropractic doctors, naturopathic doctors, physician assistants, acupuncturists (L.Ac.), athletic trainers, physical therapists, physical therapy assistants, podiatrists, radiologic technologists, respiratory therapists, occupational therapists, occupational therapist assistants, speech pathologists.
• Board of Nursing. We represent licensed practical nurses, registered nurses, advanced practice registered nurses, certified nurse midwives, and certified nurse anesthetists.
• Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Boards and Committees. We represent psychologists, master’s level psychologists, clinical psychotherapists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, professional counselors, and addiction counselors.
• Board of Pharmacy. We represent pharmacies, pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians.
• Dental Board. We represent dentists and dental hygienists.
• Department of Aging and Disability Services. We represent certified nurse aides, certified medication aides, and home health aides, as well as nursing homes, home plus facilities, and operators and administrators of long term care facilities.
• Board of Emergency Medical Services. We represent emergency medical responders (EMRs), emergency medical technicians (EMTs), advanced emergency medical technicians (AEMTs), and paramedics (MICTs).

Overland Park Healthcare Licensure Defense Lawyers for Licensing, Discipline, Peer Review, and Staff Privileges

JHC’s Overland Park healthcare licensure defense lawyers advise and advocate for healthcare professionals at every step of the licensing and disciplinary process. We help our clients weigh the risks and benefits of their options so they can make the best decisions for their careers and their futures. We offer strategic advice tailored to your specific licensure matter.

License Applications

An application denial will not only affect your healthcare practice in Kansas; it can adversely affect licenses held in other states. JHC’s Overland Park licensing lawyers help healthcare professionals with license applications—both before and after their applications have been submitted. JHC’s professional license attorneys advise clients completing or preparing to complete their applications as well as clients whose applications for licensure are already under review.

Disciplinary Proceedings

JHC’s Overland Park healthcare licensure defense lawyers will represent your interests in disciplinary proceedings from the initial investigation stage through a hearing and appeal if necessary. A knowledgeable healthcare license defense advocate can prevent an investigation from going astray and help you avoid or minimize disciplinary action against your license. Our Overland Park licensing lawyers also know how to reduce the collateral impact of disciplinary proceedings and discipline itself. We offer tested and effective legal strategies designed to defend your license and your career.

Provider Assistance Program Referrals

Healthcare providers may face allegations questioning their fitness to practice due to impairment. Allegations of impairment may be based on aging, substance use, or physical and/or mental conditions. JHC’s Overland Park healthcare licensure defense lawyers have experience addressing these types of allegations and know exactly how to guide you through the referral and evaluation process, including a provider wellbeing program if applicable.

Peer Review

The results of peer review findings can have a severe adverse impact on your practice, including sanctions from the medical facility or the board that issues and governs your license and reporting to the National Practitioner Databank. Our Overland Park licensing attorneys help healthcare practitioners from the earliest stage through the entire peer review process. With years of experience defending healthcare professionals, our Overland Park peer review attorneys know what to expect and can help you prepare for what’s to come. We will help you make your case and protect against bias.

Medical Staff Privileging

JHC’s Overland Park healthcare licensure defense lawyers will represent your interests in disciplinary proceedings from the initial investigation stage through a hearing and appeal if necessary. A knowledgeable healthcare license defense advocate can prevent an investigation from going astray and help you avoid or minimize disciplinary action against your license. Our Overland Park licensing lawyers also know how to reduce the collateral impact of disciplinary proceedings and discipline itself. We offer tested and effective legal strategies designed to defend your license and your career.

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