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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Under a Microscope: What to Expect If You Are Called Before The Minnesota Board of Medical Practice

As a physician licensed to practice in this state, you should be prepared to defend against complaints that may be brought against you. Every year, the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice receives more than 1,000 such complaints from patients, their ...
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Under Attack: Personal Injury Cases

Your private life is being examined. People are checking your background. Your credit is being analyzed and your professional record scrutinized. Your ex-spouse may be contacted. These are but a few of the tools employed by the attorney seeking to ...
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Understanding Patient Restraints: a Hospital’s Decision to Use Restraints

A hospital's decision to use restraints on patients is a difficult one, involving complex issues which can pose significant risks to a hospital. A hospital may be sued for negligence for not taking adequate precautions to protect impaired, elderly ...
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Underuse Regulation of Physician Incentive Plans

For years, the Federal anti-kickback and self-referral laws have been the primary vehicles for health care fraud enforcement. These laws and the attendant regulations were promulgated at a time when providers of health care services were reimbursed ...
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Unitization: A Mathematical Formula To Calculate Redeterminations

Unitization equity redeterminations cause nightmares for those working in the upstream sector. The concept is not the problem; the process is. The typical equity redetermination process is ambiguous and contentious, often resulting in arbitration ...
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Unusual Partnership Yields $1 Million Cleanup Grant for Brownfield

On January 15, 1998 Governor Tom Ridge and Secretary of Community and Economic Development Samuel A. McCullough announced that the Administration had awarded the largest grant to date - $1 million - from the Industrial Site Redevelopment Fund to ...
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Update: Corrections To Proposed Privacy Rule

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Department of Health and Human Services Proposes Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information On January 5,2000, HCFA published in the Federal Register,65 ...
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Utah Courts Keep Scope of Public Policy Exception Narrow

In two recent cases, the Utah Supreme Court and Utah Court of Appeals clarified the circumstances under which an employee can prevail against an employer for termination in violation of public policy. In Ryan v. Dan's Food Stores, Inc., the Utah ...
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Virginia Health Law Legislation

Amendment to Virginia Code § 38.2-4312.3 provides members of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) with access to a system of 24-hour emergency services. This law directs HMOs to provide either 24-hour access to medical care or 24-hour access by ...
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Virginia Health Law Update

. Creates a framework for statutory and regulatory oversight of Managed Care Health Insurance Plans ("MCHIPs"). MCHIPs are defined as arrangements by which a health carrier undertakes to provide, arrange or pay for, or reimburse any of the cost of ...
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