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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Protecting the Rights of Older Americans

While conditions for older Americans have improved markedly since passage of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (OAA), many elderly still are denied their basic rights and benefits, and suffer abusive situations ranging from financial exploitation to ...
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Protecting the Unprotected: Nursing Home Residents’ Rights

In 1976, the Florida Legislature took a significant step in recognizing the rights of a very vulnerable group of individuals: Nursing Home residents. Section 400.002 of the Florida Statutes outlines several rights of Nursing Home Residents, which ...
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Provider-Based Entities

The Health Care Financing Administration ("HCFA") recently clarified its policy regarding provider-based designations. The policy sets forth standards by which multiple provider facilities will be designated as one facility for Medicare accounting ...
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PSOs: A New Opportunity for Providers

For many years, hospitals and physicians have been lobbying to be able to contract directly with Medicare beneficiaries, arguing that provider directed care would produce better results than HMO directed care. Finally, as the result of the passage ...
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Public Assistance Guide

(35K) When Disaster Strikes Applying for Public Assistance Eligibility Project Management Chapter 2 - Applying for Public Assistance Section A - Applicant Eligibility 9 Section B - The Applicants' Briefing and Damage Survey Reports ...
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R.I.P., Marcus Welby, M.D.

This article reprinted with permission of The Connecticut Law Tribune, September 21, 1998 edition. In response to economic and competitive pressures, physicians are banding together in larger groups, are performing new services and are forming new ...
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Reassignment Rules may Confuse Physician

efforts to address the abuse of physician billing number reassignment to other entities. This could have a substantial impact on entities that receive Medicare payments for physicians such as physician groups, physician practice management ...
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Recent Decisions Clarify Legality of Percentage-based Physician Management Contracts

The alert is also available in Adobe PDF format here. On June 25, 1999, in PhyMatrix Management Co., Inc. v. Bakarania, Fla. Dist. Ct. App., No. 97-4534, 6/25/99, the Florida First District Court of Appeal, in a per curium decision, affirmed a 1997 ...
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Recent Petroleum Cost Recovery Ruling Limits Rights in Pennsylvania

A recent decision by Judge William W. Caldwell of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania imposes important limits to petroleum contamination cost recovery actions in Pennsylvania. In Two Rivers Terminal L.P. v ...
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Recent Significant Case Law Excerpts Which Pertain To Cfids/ Fibromyalgia

Case citations are provided as a reference. Case name is underlined. Next listed is volume of book and page number (i.e., volume 975 of Federal Supplement, page 84). In parenthesis appears the case jurisdiction and year. Any librarian at your local ...
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