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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What Clinicians Should Know About Malpractice Law

With the flourishing of neonatology and the number of practitioners has come an explosion of litigation centering on events occurring in the neonatal period. The many reasons usually cited for this (even seemingly contradictory factors such as ...
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What Is Guardianship?

A guardianship is a legal proceeding in the circuit courts of Florida in which a guardian exercises the legal rights of an incapacitated person. A guardian is an individual or institution such as a bank trust department appointed by the court to ...
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What Is Long Term Care Insurance?

This is insurance you buy to pay for your stay in a nursing home. It is sold only by private insurance companies. Not all insurance companies sell it. You can contact an estate planning attorney or contact the Arkansas Insurance Commission for a ...
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What is Medicare

Medicare is a government program for people over 65. The program is divided into two parts. Part A is hospital insurance. Part B is medical insurance. Most people over 65 are automatically eligible for Part A. For a monthly premium, you can get Part ...
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What’s Driving the Vertical Integration

The health care industry of the 1990s is moving rapidly toward "integration" of various functions to achieve greater efficiencies. Companies involved in the delivery of health care are trying different combinations and alliances in an effort to ...
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What You Need To Know about Medical Malpractice Litigation

Green, Kaster & Falvey, P.A. handles a significant number of major medical malpractice cases annually. Although we represent a large number of victims of malpractice, we are forced to reject far more than we accept due to a misunderstanding by most ...
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When Physicians Try to Unionize Against HMOs

"I'm sorry, the doctors can't see you today. They are on strike." Is this a possible scenario? Given the dissatisfaction felt by many doctors over the increasing power of managed care plans, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), preferred ...
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Where Managed Care Plans Have Decided Not to Renew Their Medicare Contracts

Throughout the country, HCFA contracts with managed care plans to provide Medicare benefits. Managed care plans are independent businesses which voluntarily enter into annual contracts with the Health Care Financing Administration to provide ...
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Year 2000 Compliance: An Issue for All Businesses

Virtually every business, almost without exception, must face the reality that it will have to take steps to become "Year 2000 compliant" or face potential liability in the coming years. The source of the Year 2000 compliance problem is the practice ...
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You Can Sue City Hall

NOT SO LONG AGO, you really couldn't sue city hall or almost any government agency. The old doctrine of sovereign immunity made governments immune from suits unless they consented to be sued (fat chance). However, in almost every jurisdiction you ...
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