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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Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act Summary
For decades, the Food and Drug Administration regulated dietary supplements as foods, in most circumstances, to ensure that they were safe and wholesome, and that their labeling was truthful and not misleading. An important facet of ensuring safety ...
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Disclosing Contingent Environmental Liabilities & Navigating In A New Environment
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and its implementing regulations are increasing the level of scrutiny given to public companies' disclosure of contingent risks. Environmental issues, however, have not necessarily been at the top of the list. Most of those ...
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Disclosing Medical Records
ALTHOUGH MOST practitioners appreciate the sanctity of medical records, few understand either the implications of wrongfully disclosing records to another person or how to avoid liability for doing so. The case study below illustrates the serious ...
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Doctors and the NLRB
Today, only about 5 percent of the nation's physicians are union members, but the storm of change looms large on the horizon. While a full listing of present organizing efforts would continue ad infinitum, the following are representative of ...
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Dr. Bragdon Perseveres
In 1987, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in its Recommendations for Prevention of HIV Transmission in Health-Care Settings, warned dentists that ordinary precautions (i.e., the gloves, masks, instrument manipulation techniques ...
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Draft Physician Compliance Program Released by Office of Inspector General
On June 12, 2000, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General ("OIG") issued a draft guidance document -- Compliance Program Guidance for Individual and Small Group Physician Practices ("Compliance Program"). The ...
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Economic Credentialing: Where Is It Going?
In recent years hospitals have increasingly adopted conflict-of-interest and credentialing policies that, more or less explicitly, condition the grant or renewal of medical staff privileges on patient referrals. For example, some hospitals have ...
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EEOC Announces Relief For Employers Providing Retiree Health Benefits
On April 22, 2004, the EEOC approved a final rule that would permit employers to provide lesser benefits to retirees who are eligible for Medicare than to retirees who are not yet eligible for Medicare. This final rule would provide employers the ...
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Electronic Health Records and the National Health Information Infrastructure
A broad-based public and private initiative is promoting the development of a national system of interoperable electronic health records (EHRs). This initiative raises challenging issues for health care providers, public health authorities ...
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Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act “EMTALA”
Passed as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986 "COBRA" : EMTALA is intended to address the failure of a hospital to recognize an emergency condition due to inadequate screening procedures, and, if an emergency ...
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