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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Social Security Benefits for People Living With HIV/AIDS

SSA Publication No. 05-10019 May 1995 (May 1994 edition may be used) Benefits You May Be Able To Get People with HIV/AIDS may qualify for disability benefits from the Social Security Administration under two programs: Social Security Disability ...
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Social Security Benefits in Nebraska: Help from Three Agencies

When people cannot work, have no long term disability coverage, and their health insurance has run out, they will need to look to all three levels of government for help. SSDI and SSI are the two main programs for people who can't work because of ...
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Social Security: How Its Financed

SSA Publication No. 05-10094 May 1998 (Recycle prior editions) The financing of Social Security is a simple process. While you work, you pay taxes into Social Security and when you retire or become disabled, you (and your family members) collect ...
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Social Security: Your Taxes What You’re Paying For and Where Your Money Goes

Publication Number 05-10010 January 1999 ICN 451459 Introduction Take a look at your pay stubÂ—the part that shows how much is taken out for the various taxes and benefits each pay period. One of those deductions is for Social Security and Medicare ...
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Special Bulletin: Federal and State Superfund Statutes Are Amended to Protect Lenders

The possibility of environmental liability for lenders resulting from making, administering or foreclosing on loans secured by contaminated real property has troubled the financial community for many years. Potential exposure to liability for ...
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Special Needs Trusts: A Planning Tool with Promise

As advances in medical technology are made available to the average American, and as public benefit eligibility law becomes more complicated, it should come as no surprise that legal planning tools are evolving to enable disabled or older ...
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Stark II: What it Means for Group Income Distribution Plans

For many medical groups, revenues from ancillary services make up a substantial portion of the group's profits. Income from clinical lab services, imaging equipment, and similar group ancillary services can sometimes equal or exceed income generated ...
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Stark Realities: How the Physician Self-Referral Act Affects Group Practices

Though the Physician Self-Referral Act (Often called the Stark Law or Stark II) was enacted in 1993, few Physicians truly understand the law or its application to Physician Practices. The Stark Laws directly effect physician group practices and ...
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Striking Out: Modern Healthcare

Federal agencies have been striking out when they step up to the plate to challenge a hospital merger in court. Like baseball teams that haven't won a pennant in years, the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Justice Department are on a four-case ...
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Subrogation: Satisfaction Of Hospital Liens

Infinity Insurance Company settled an automobile accident case with Wayne and Connie Bruce but did not honor a hospital lien for treatment rendered to the Bruces at Carraway Methodist Medical Center. Carraway filed a lawsuit in Jefferson County ...
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