Welcome to the West Virginia Board of Medicine website. This website is
provided to serve our customers. Please let us know if we may provide
additional service(s) on this website.
New!
The Board has adopted a new position statement:
Guidelines for Physicians in Collaborative Relationships with
Advanced
Nurse Practitioners or Certified Nurse Midwives
Verifications
The WV Board of Medicine has partnered with Veridoc, Inc., to offer a
fully automated, internet-based, license verification system for anyone
requiring a hard-copy verification. More information regarding
this new arrangement may be found on our SERVICES
PAGE.
To obtain a written verification, visit
http://www.veridoc.org.
Fee Increase
Effective May 1, 2010, increased fees will apply to Board of Medicine
services.
CLICK HERE to view Rule 11 CSR 4.
Free SAMHSA and PCSS Resource
The HHS Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
has funded development of a free resource for physicians related to the
prescribing of opioids, care of opioid-dependent patients and chronic pain
patients being treated with methadone.
The Physician Clinical Support System (PCSS) website
www.PCSSmentor.org is an important resource for prescribers in West
Virginia. Through PCSS, health care providers may connect with expert
mentors to get education about the use of methadone (PCSS-M) and
buprenorphine (PCSS-B), and the appropriate care of opioid dependent
patients and chronic pain patients. Mentors provide individualized
telephone, email and on-site support. They come from across the country and
work in pain clinics, primary care, licensed opioid treatment programs, and
other practice settings.
PCSS-B is designed to help with patient assessment, office
logistics, initiating medication, treatment of co-morbid conditions, dosing
and patient monitoring, guidance on management of special populations (e.g.
Pain, HIV, HCV, Pregnancy).
PCSS-M is designed to help with patient assessment and
selection, initiating and titrating methadone, conversion from other opioids,
dosing and patient monitoring, interpreting methadone serum levels,
drug-drug interactions, methadone and cardiac conduction, minimizing risk of
diversion and overdose, management of co-occurring conditions,
identification and provision of useful resources.
The toll free number is
877.630.8812. Don’t miss this opportunity. West Virginia Medical Professionals Health Program, Inc.
provides monitoring services to licensees (M.D.'s, D.P.M.'s, and P.A.-C.'s)
with dependency, addiction, and mental health disorders while they pursue
treatment and recovery for the same. Confidential participation in
this physician health program is assured in instances where the licensee
voluntarily self reports and remains in compliance with the program's
requirements. This program was formally established more than two years
ago, and WVMPHP continues to actively make medical professionals and the
health service industry statewide aware of its services and to provide
education regarding the issues of substance abuse and dependency.
The WVMPHP's website address is
http://www.wvmphp.org
The Southern Office of WVMPHP is located on the second floor
at 4307 MacCorkle Ave. S.E., Charleston, WV. The mailing address is
P.O. Box 40027, Charleston, WV 25364, telephone 304.414.0400, fax
304.414.0401. Office Hours: 9:00 to 5:00, Mon.- Fri.
The Northern Office of WVMPHP is located at 680 Genesis
Boulevard, Suite #2, Bridgeport, WV 26330. Office Hours:
8:00 to 4:00, Mon.- Fri.
P. Bradley Hall, M.D., Medical Director, may be reached at
bhallmd@wvmphp.org. L. Renee
Green, R.N., Case Manager, may be reached at
rgreen@wvmphp.org.
Notice
West Virginia State Law provides that it is a misdemeanor for a patient,
with the intent to deceive and obtain a controlled substance prescription,
to withhold information from a practitioner that the patient has obtained a
controlled substance prescription of a similar therapeutic use in a
concurrent time period from another practitioner. Upon conviction, a fine
and imprisonment may be imposed. For a Notice of the law which may be
downloaded and placed in a practitioner’s office,
CLICK HERE.
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