Law & Malpractice

On December 2, 2020, CMS published new provisions and exemptions related to the Stark Law (85 Fed. Reg. 77492) and HHS-OIG published new provisions and safe harbors related to the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) (85 Fed. Reg. 77684.

Research shows medical offices and clinics are vulnerable to inadvertent spread.

The healthcare transparency act was recently updated. Here’s what it’s about and its potential consequences.

Code accurately with the appropriate documentation to substantiate medical necessity.

Basic rules to be aware of and some specific tax plans that require extreme caution and due diligence.

Two experts sit down and talk about asset protection.

What doctors must understand about their insurance and why not all polices are equal.

How to talk with patients about vaccine concerns.

By making strategic yet affordable investments and undertaking specific basic measures, smaller practices can make great strides to strengthen their defenses.

With the impending reporting period upon providers, this article highlights the current status of Reporting Period 1 and relays some recent enforcement actions.

In part seven of our look at medical malpractice risk we examine specific liability issues from recent media reports and about physicians and healthcare.

AI can decrease strain on nurses and other healthcare professionals and allow them focus on the tasks technology cannot address.

While texting can make things a lot easier (and more profitable), it can also be easy to unknowingly violate HIPAA regulations.

As more states enact biometric laws (although none are as robust as Illinois), healthcare AI companies, covered entities, and business associates should take note and take steps to update compliance programs in order to reduce the risk of a lawsuit and a potentially criminal HIPAA violation.

Physicians’ professional liability has been heightened by both the pandemic and the significant disinformation and politicization surrounding vaccines and various unsafe treatment and prevention methods

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Having a good estate plan can be critical in ensuring that your family is well taken care of after you are gone.

Understanding what should be included in a required HIPAA BAA is essential.

Only a quarter of Medicare and Medicare Advantage recipients receive an annual wellness visit.

In part 5 of our look at malpractice asset protection strategies, we cover the basics every physician must know about medical malpractice insurance.

While helpful, the increase in electronic patient information creates more opportunity for errors, omissions, or mistakes that can ultimately lead to an unintended patient outcome and subsequent evidence against a provider in a legal proceeding.

Email is one area ripe for AI innovation.

With cybersecurity and criminal government actions involving protected health information (PHI), now is a good time to understand the importance of the required Business Associate Agreement (BAA).

The risk of malpractice and negligence is hurting the medical billing industry. Here’s a brief article talking about various risks involved with these threats to practices, clinics, and coders.

We continue our look at asset protection for physicians in the context of medical malpractice claims with a look at the causes of medical malpractice claims and thinking defensively about diagnosis and documentation.

One of the biggest risks is the act of practicing medicine virtually and the challenges of virtual examinations, reviewing diagnostics, communicating with the patient, loss of contextual clues, etc.

These three efforts are some basic steps that will go a long way toward ensuring you accomplish your marketing goals while still maintaining patient privacy.

If you leverage the right business partners for your email, you can both mitigate risk and provide seamless communication to your patients.

Providers should be vigilant about the truthfulness of the claims and statements that are being submitted for remuneration by the government.

Asset Protection for physicians logically includes concerns about medical malpractice liability. We continue our look at the facts about malpractice including the real risks, numbers and defense strategies involved.