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.

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.

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.

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.

There is an impressive array of strategies for moving wealth from one generation to another outside the purview of estate and gift taxation.

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

Physicians can now participate in the burgeoning Ambulatory Surgical Center marketplace as investors and protect themselves from violating the Anti-Kickback Statute.

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.

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.

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