Medicine & the Law

Regulations address permissible activities of physician assistants, impose strict requirements for a written agreement, and require the supervising physician to assume several obligations in supervising and overseeing the physician assistant.

A recent decision may have a significant impact on health care providers’ obligations to be conversant with and abide by not only reimbursement laws and regulations, but also carrier interpretations and medical policies.

You hope, if you are or become disabled, that your disability insurance company will keep its promise.

These arrangements are not without risk and should be properly tailored to comply with the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark and other applicable laws and regulations.

Since legal battles between debtors and creditors are often played out in bankruptcy, much of the law in the area of asset protection arises in the context of bankruptcy proceedings.

Legal regulations, exploitative employers and bureaucratic delays can make you feel like giving up on your American dream. But knowing your rights can help you avoid common traps and, when pitfalls do occur, how to navigate your way out.

For those contemplating implementation of an electronic health records system, there will be significant legal issues to resolve that increase in importance as the complexity of the system deployment increases.

By enhancing communication and service excellence, a physician can reduce professional liability risk and simultaneously enhance a practice’s bottom line through higher patient satisfaction.

With the release of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s Report to the Congress on Physician-owned Specialty Hospitals, the status of the expiration of that prohibition may now be in jeopardy until at least January 1, 2007.

There are a myriad of laws, regulations and ethical tenets governing arrangements between physicians and medical device manufacturers which could present significant traps for the unwary physici