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Personal liability risks that physicians in nonprofit health care organizations have to avoid or face penalties for "excess benefit transactions" under the recently passed Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights II.

A strategic look at office layout: what your office should have—and what it should avoid.

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.

Coordinating cancer treatment protocols across a hospital network is a demanding task. See how it can be made more manageable using the World Wide Web.

Gordon K. MacLeod, M.D., itemizes warning signs for medical education’s future. The signs represent a trend to be reckoned with.

Discussion forum blossoms, search capacity is operational, and other new features of this site.

Start-up practices and small employers may wish to consider the new SIMPLE retirement plan. Be aware of changes to 401(k) calculations. Tax-exempt organizations are now permitted to establish 401(k) plans. Other impacts of the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996.

How to track services, billing and financial operations while integrating fee-for-service and capitated medicine in a medical practice. Understand the distinctions and respond to the variables involved.

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.