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QUICK FACT
If your complaint is closed without being investigated, you have 30 days (upon receipt of the closure notification) to file a request that the WMC reconsider their decision. Your reconsideration request must include new information that was not included with your original complaint.
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#PainAwarnessMonth
September focuses on the challenges associated with pain and chronic pain during National Pain Awareness Month. The WMC has opened its rules for Physicians and Physician Assistants general provision for opioid prescribing and tapering. Visit the rulemaking in progress page for more information on WMC rulemaking process.
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WMC Policies – Open Forum for Comments
On September 5th there will be an interested parties policy meeting. The purpose of this meeting is to allow anyone to comment on and suggest changes to the WMC’s policies, guidance documents, procedures, and interpretive statements. The WMC encourages open discussion on the items on this agenda. The upcoming agenda is as follows:
1. Procedure: Processing Complaints Against Medical Students, Residents, and Fellows
2. Proposed Policy: Commissioner and Pro Tem Recusal Policy to Address Conflicts of Interest
3. Guidance Document: Medical Directors: Roles and Duties and Responsibilities (GUI2020-02)
4. Proposed Interpretive Statement: "Qualified Physician" Under Optometry Law
5. Open Forum
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From the FAQ Page
Q: My Physician or Physician Assistant told me that they do not want me as a patient anymore. Can they do that?
A: Yes, a medical provider can terminate the physician-patient relationship just as a patient can end the relationship if he/she/they feel it is no longer mutually productive. The provider cannot abandon a patient and generally must provide 30 days of emergency care or provide care until the patient establishes care with a new provider.
Learn More on our FAQ page
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