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Communications between clients and their attorneys may only be protected where certain requirements are satisfied.

Proponents hope HSAs will reduce over-utilization, increase access to health care, improve the physician-patient relationship, and lower overall health care costs. Critics argue that the plans jeopardize patients’ access to quality care and may actually end up increasing health expenses in the long term.

What exactly does the Fed do, and why should we care?

How often do you consider the need for a review of your personal finances?

Such changes add not only to complexity in the system, but also to financial and legal exposures as the providers of the care.

Adopting an effective written harassment policy, and then educating and training your employees and supervisors on how to utilize and enforce the policy, can help you meet the expectations of the EEOC, and your legal responsibility to keep your workplace free from harassment.

Where there is at least some merit to the claim and the risk of proceeding to trial is deemed to be too great, mediation or another form of ADR should be considered.

Some stakeholders regard the draft regulations as representing bold and long-overdue change that is urgently needed to keep pace with a health care delivery landscape that has evolved significantly over the past 20 years, while others regard them as overly prescriptive and intrusive.

With such an agreement, your practice can survive the death, permanent disability or retirement of a partner. You can’t afford to do without one.

The expected increase in the medical staffing industry offers a positive outlook for recruitment firms. However, long-term indicators point to an imbalance in the years ahead due to increased demand for medical services combined with shortages in the physician workforce.