Kansas High Court Says Medical Board Can Investigate Incident From Another State

Sept. 20, 2012, 4:00 AM UTC

Kansas’s medical licensing board had authority to subject a medical doctor licensed in the state to an investigation and discipline based on incidents that occurred in another state, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled Sept. 7 (Ryser v. State, Kan., 103,579, 9/7/12).

The state’s highest court affirmed that the Kansas Board of Healing Arts had authority to issue an investigative subpoena to Dr. Carol Ann Ryser based a medical malpractice claim filed against her by a patient Ryser treated in Missouri.

The key to deciding the issue, the court said, was that Ryser was a Kansas “licensee” under ...

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