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Parties to health care electronic data exchange must focus on a range of transactional issues and state and federal requirements.

New comparability cross-testing offers physician practice groups the flexibility that virtually all other retirement plan structures lack.

The Act provides protection for physician interests and increases the opportunity for exercise of independent clinical judgment.

Providers should know when the law applies, what credentialing restrictions are placed on managed care organizations, what rights the providers are afforded and what are the limitations of those rights.

Physicians can benefit from MSAs as an employer, employee and/or provider.

Before embarking on the long, somewhat tedious and costly road of developing a written strategic plan, find out what your patients and your staff think of both the practice and you.

A disabled physician can sue a hospital that strips him of staff privileges under the public accommodation provision of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The physician may not only be subject to additional litigation by being joined in a suit or sued after a final determination of vicarious liability on the part of the HMO, but may also find himself/herself without the protection of insurance.

Despite all of the hype, the settlement appears to be short on public health policies and long on special legal protections for the tobacco industry. And there is no guarantee that any of the settlement money coming to Pennsylvania will be spent on tobacco control, public health or health care.

Managing your accounts receivable process effectively and efficiently may require you to change your thinking about third party follow-up