Bodenhausen v. Missouri Board of Registration for the Healing Arts

BENTON, Judge.

May a licensing board discipline a professional without involving the Administrative Hearing Commission? The circuit court answered “no”; the court of appeals agreed; this Court granted transfer. Mo. Const, art. V, § 10. Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.

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On June 13, 1990, Gary Bodenhausen — a licensed physician — signed an agreement with the Board of Registration for the Healing Arts, stipulating that he had violated §§ 334.100.2(4)(h) and (13) RSMo Supp.1989. No complaint was ever filed with the Administrative Hearing Commission. The disci plinary agreement…