Health Law

Arguably no other area of interdisciplinary law affects the daily lives of the general public and, in turn, your clients, more than health law. Moreover, healthcare has become big business with the rising cost of quality medical care, prescription drug coverage, and the need for long-term health care solutions for an aging population. Legal matters frequently arise from the denial of Social Security benefits to the maze of options available for small businesses that are required to provide healthcare insurance coverage to their employees. Click on the links below to also learn about how to better represent your clients seeking Medicare coverage or how to make your company’s health benefits work for its employees.

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Major California Legislation Enacted in 1997 Relating to Water Quality

Methyl tertiary-butyl ether, or MTBE, is the most commonly used oxygenate to comply with California's Cleaner Burning Gasoline regulations. However, MTBE is highly mobile in soil and can migrate to groundwater--MTBE contamination caused the ...
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Managed Care Challenged in Class Action Lawsuit

This week has seen a rush of publicity about legislation and litigation targeting managed care organizations. Perhaps most notably, on October 4, 1999, several of the nation's most prominent plaintiffs' attorneys filed a lengthy class action ...
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Managed Care Contracts – Key Provisions for Providers

The contract between a physician or other health care professional and a managed care organization (MCO) such as a provider-sponsored network, integrated delivery system, health maintenance organization, or other health care plan, is the fundamental ...
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Managed Care: Managed Costs or Managed Medicine?

Many people believe that the rising costs of medical care in the United States, and the increasing numbers of ordinary citizens who cannot afford it, have combined to threaten this country's social and economic health. By the year 2000, unless ...
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Managed Health Care and You

Many individuals receive their major medical insurance through an employee benefit plan. Often, these employee plans are subscribers to a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO). In these cases where a person receives their medical coverage through ...
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Managing Transactions to Minimize Risk: The Buyer’s Perspective

In sports, every athlete recognizes that to gain the winning edge, preparation and knowing the competition are key. Prospective purchasers should approach acquisitions with the same philosophy. Effective transaction management begins with ...
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Massachusetts Brownfields act

There are presently 8000 identified contaminated sites in Massachusetts, most of which are commercial or industrial in nature. Many of these sites are also located in economically distressed urban areas. After years of debate regarding the ...
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Medical Malpractice Claims

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE is a controversial area of law because, in part, a jury comprised of laypersons (although recent state legislation is increasing the percentage of professionals in the jury pool) determines whether or not medical care fell below ...
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Medical Malpractice

One of the most controversial areas of personal injury law arises from the negligence of medical care providers, commonly referred to as medical malpractice. Medical malpractice may occur when a physician or hospital makes an error in the diagnosis ...
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Medical Records: Predicting the Future

EVERYONE INVOLVED with a patient who has a head injury wants to know how that person's future will be. The patient wants reassurance that he or she will return to premorbid condition despite having suffered a closed head injury. The family needs to ...
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