Tag: Opioid Crisis

In this podcast, Jesse Caplan, Amy Fogelman, M.D and Deb Waugh explore the medical, legal and compliance challenges faced by practitioners and healthcare organizations in prescribing opioids for chronic pain during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will be looking at these challenges from three different perspectives – from a physician who is an expert in opioid prescribing standard of care; from a licensed clinical social worker who has designed and conducted hundreds of physician competency evaluations and training programs; and from an attorney who has represented healthcare organizations and healthcare regulatory agencies.

In this Jesse Caplan and Tom Fox discuss how healthcare organizations can identify and mitigate the risks from opioid prescribing by their practitioners. Some of the issues considered are what can healthcare organizations, and particularly their compliance departments do to identify and mitigate the risks from opioid prescribing? Some examples of deficient opioid prescribing practices by, otherwise, experienced and caring physicians? What help is available to healthcare organizations to address these risks?

In this five-part podcast series, sponsor by Affiliated Monitors, Inc., I visit with Jesse Caplan, Managing Director at AMI on emerging issues in healthcare compliance and monitoring. Healthcare provider organizations and practices face many different types of potential regulatory and liability risks and we explore several of them in this series. In this first episode we focus on the risks posed by opioid prescribing. We consider what are the risks to providers and health care organizations from opioid prescribing? What has been the response of the Department of Justice? What are legislators and regulators doing to address the opioid crisis? The legal and regulatory framework impacting opioid prescribing? What should be the primary compliance concerns for healthcare organizations in connection with the opioid crisis?