CAP’s next webinar, Good Outcomes in an Era of Tough Choices: Legal Risks and Solutions for Opioid Prescribers, will cover the latest laws and best practices surrounding the opioid crisis, and will help answer the fundamental question: How do I treat patients with compassion and care in a medically sound and legally safe way?  This webinar is presented by Steve Meister, criminal defense lawyer and the owner of Meister Law Offices in Los Angeles, California. 

Your medical assistants will often being exposed to opportunities where errors happen. Learn how to minimize possibilities of incidents like medication errors.

A well-drafted CSA may protect patients from overuse, misuse, and other consequences from opioid use. 

The stigma of opioid abuse remains a significant barrier to addiction treatment for most patients.

A recent focused review of CAP’s closed-claims data by Risk Management and Patient Safety staff reveals that 62 percent of medication errors involving Medical Assistants (MA) occurred in busy primary care practices.