Browsing: Medicine & the Law

Key features of Office of Inspector General audits, including OIG’s new voluntary audits. Offers interpretations of: physical presence of teaching physician, documentation, undercoding and penalties.

A critical look at medical liability reform “progress” from a litigator’s perspective reveals a potential raw deal.

A handy summary of what has happened, what is affected and how other state agencies have said they will respond.

Confronting practice valuations are legal and financial obstacles in two contexts: the sale of a practice by a hospital-based physician and the sale of a practice to a hospital. Learn from the mistakes of others.

The failure of the state’s General Assembly to extend the CON law does not mean that the Department of Health will be silent on the matter. The first of two articles to examine the legal impact of this event on the health care market.

Explains what tax law changes you need to know about in the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, and the Taxpayers Bill of Rights 2.

How the Federal Trade Commission has revised its antitrust enforcement policies regarding your IPA or PHO. You may no longer need to engage in financial risk-sharing to avoid antitrust violations.

Medicare reinbursement telemedicine consultations may be coming soon.

As managed care organizations have undertaken increasingly pivotal roles in decisions affecting the delivery of health care, judges have re-evaluated their earlier views and imposed liability.

Several recent federal cases call attention to some of the risks associated with entering into agreements in which one party may benefit from making Medicare referrals to another party.