areas of practice
The below referenced entities and activities are representative of the type of legal services provided by McDonald, Mackay & Weitz, LLP.
The firm had handled numerous matters before various governmental bodies and private sector organizations. Examples include, but are not limited to the following entities:
- Texas Medical Board
- Texas Board of Nurse Examiners
- Texas State Board of Acupuncture Examiners
- Texas Physician Assistant Board
- Texas Dental Board
- Texas Veterinary Board
- Texas State Board of Psychologists
- Texas State Department of Health Services
- Texas Department of MHMR
- State Office of Administrative Hearings
- Drug Enforcement Administration
- Texas Department of Public Safety
- Texas Medical Foundation
- Texas Legislature
- Texas Department of Insurance
The types of specific matters involved are wide ranging and include questions that affect the heavily regulated health care practitioner. These matters include, but are not limited to:
- Informal Settlement Conferences
- Show Compliance Proceedings
- Mediations
- Applicable standards of care
- Record keeping
- Investigations
- Practice closure
- Licensure concern
- Retirement
- Boundary violations
- Criminal matters
- Relicensure efforts
- Non-therapeutic prescribing issues
- Compliance issues
- Modification and Termination of Orders
- Policy and Procedure creation
- Credentialing/Recredentialing
- Hospital and Medical Society Peer Review
- National Practitioner Data Bank Reporting
- Contested Administrative Hearings
- Assistance with Depositions
- Responses to Subpoenas
- Impairment/Substance Abuse Interventions
- Record Requests
- Patient Complaints
- Controlled Substances Certificates and Registration
- Provider and Vendor Contracts
- Health Care Law Reform
- Agency Rulemaking