There are a good many reasons to consider establishing a Living Trust as a substitute for a Will. However, the Living Trust is not an appropriate planning device in all cases.
Read More »When to firm up partnership arrangements
From a resident’s standpoint, if you are looking for a long-term relationship, you should at least ask a lot of questions about the practice’s future plans. From the practice’s standpoint, you may not want to commit to a particular course of action before the "honeymoon" period of associateship.
Read More »More safe harbor regulations for physicians
In addition to adding several new Safe Harbor Regulations, the regulations published by the OIG on November 19, 1999 revised several of the existing Safe Harbor Regulations that are relevant to physician practices.
Read More »Unionization of interns, residents and fellows
The NLRB has concluded that interns, residents and fellows qualify as employees under the National Labor Relations Act. There is little question that the decision will have an enormous impact on the unionization of teaching hospitals.
Read More »Consider your choices for estate taxes
There is an impressive array of strategies for moving wealth from one generation to another outside the purview of estate and gift taxation.
Read More »Branding the identity of your practice
Branding strategies have long been used in large industry but can be easily modified to meet the needs of today’s medical practices and organizations
Read More »Safe harbors for ambulatory surgical centers
Physicians can now participate in the burgeoning Ambulatory Surgical Center marketplace as investors and protect themselves from violating the Anti-Kickback Statute.
Read More »Evolving uses of health care on the Internet
As health care on the Internet continues to evolve from fairly static first generation information sites toward third generation interactive health management programs online, courts, regulators and private accrediting entities are struggling to apply existing law to a new medium and to develop new law when needed.
Read More »The case for managed money
Why pay a manager to put stocks or bonds together in a mutual fund? If markets were perfectly efficient and if research did not make a difference, then relative fund performance would be based on chance.
Read More »Use every tool to verify patient eligibility
Every time a payor rejects a claim, your practice is not only inconvenienced, but also short-changed. Consider practical steps to prevent your practice from providing services to ineligible health plan enrollees
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