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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The Ten Commandments of Litigation

If you are, or expect to be, involved in any type of civil lawsuit, or even more importantly, if you are or expect to be the subject of a criminal prosecution, you should take the following steps: call your lawyer if you have any questions ...
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The Truth About Texas’ Prompt Payment Laws For Healthcare Providers

The intent of this article is twofold. First, I hope to set the record straight about the legal effect of the so-called "prompt-pay" laws, as are currently found within the Texas Insurance Code. These laws simply do not apply and do not serve the ...
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Top 10 Ways to Make Your Health Benefits Work for You

There are many different types of health benefit plans. Find out which one your employer offers, then check out the plan, or plans, offered. Your employer's human resource office, the health plan administrator, or your union can provide ...
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Top Twenty Medicare/Medicaid Questions

The following 20 questions and answers are the most frequently asked questions by callers to the Medicare + Choice toll free line. These questions and answers will be updated as needed. The Original Medicare Plan is the traditional fee-for-service ...
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Trashing Superfund: The Role Of Municipal Solid Waste In CERCLA Cases

This article was originally published in the Outside Perspectives section of CCM -The American Lawyer's Corporate Counsel Magazine, November 1999 issue, and appears here with the permission of American Lawyer Media, L.P. A new judicial ruling ...
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Trying Care-Giver Negligence Cases in Oregon

The numbers of elders living in nursing and assisted living facilities is growing, and will continue to grow. As populations in these institutions rise, so do instances of care-giver neglect and abuse of elders. As attorneys, we often see severe ...
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Tydings & Rosenberg LLP Sues Over Nursing Home Enforcement Regulations

Tydings & Rosenberg LLP recently filed suit on behalf of Ivy Hall Geriatric and Rehabilitation Center, Inc., a Maryland nursing home, to modify the Medicaid nursing home enforcement regulations implemented in 1995. The lawsuit argues that the ...
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Frequently Asked Questions

Check with your local authorities (town, county, state) for directions on how to dispose correctly of household wastes, solvents, paints, and paint cans. Check with your local authorities (state, region). States are typically the agencies ...
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U.S. Supreme Court Addresses Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act

In Jane M. Roberts v. Galen of Virginia, Inc. ("Roberts"), the United States Supreme Court (the "Supreme Court") handed down its first decision addressing the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). EMTALA requires Medicare contracting ...
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U.S. Tightens Drinking Water Standards

On December 3, 1998, President Clinton announced new public health standards for drinking water, the first such standards to be issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the 1996 Amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act (1996 ...
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