Medicine & the Law

By Deborah B. Miller, Esq. From a personal perspective, prenuptial agreements are not very appealing, but from a common sense and legal point of view, ...

By Lynn Lucas-Fehm, MD, JD When the AMA was formed in 1847, the founders could not have imagined how health care delivery would change in ...

By Lucia Francesca Bruno, JD, LLM, MBA The proverbial statement, “You only get one bite at the apple” couldn’t be truer than when negotiating a ...

By Daniel M. Bernick, Esq., M.B.A When I first started as a health care attorney and consultant, 20 years ago, my mentor remarked that compensation ...

By Martha Swartz, M.S.S., J.D.   With economic pressures on physicians mounting and regulatory incentives to affiliate with larger entities expanding, an increasing number of ...

By Martha Swartz, M.S.S., J.D. What is a PPO? As a health care institution or individual provider, it is difficult to provide services in Pennsylvania ...

By Joseph M. Gorrell   The New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners, often considered by New Jersey physicians as difficult and unreasonable, has adopted ...

By Mark F. Seltzer, Esq. You are a physician who has been suffering from a medical condition, for which you have asked your Disability Insurance ...

Although the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA), also referred to as the health care reform act, is currently being challenged on ...

By John W. Jones, Esq. Federal government scrutiny over device development and license arrangements between the medical device industries and physicians and settlements between major ...