Wrap up: Protecting your DEA registration during transitions, and other news

Happy Friday, dvm360 readers! With the AVMA Convention behind us, the dvm360 team spent this week bringing you what we heard in Anaheim, from a federal update on the country’s screwworm response to an endocrinologist’s take on where feline diabetes care is headed. Add in a licensing decision out of Colorado, a hard look at practice partnerships, and a reminder about what your DEA number really makes you responsible for, and it was a full week across the site.

Leading things off, for many veterinarians a DEA registration is simply a tool of the trade, but when it is used to order and maintain a controlled substance inventory, the registrant is 100% responsible for everything that happens with it. In this article, Peter Weinstein, DVM, MBA, and Kelley Detweiler explain why that inventory is legally yours regardless of who paid for it, the 3 ways it must be transitioned when you sell a practice or change roles, how to recognize the “nominal registrant” trap, and what to secure before you walk out the door.