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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Every Last Drop

It is incredible how even the tiniest spill can cause a huge headache for a carrier of hazardous materials. Some examples: (1) In Virginia, a driver was pulled over when a passing state trooper noticed droplets falling from a stowed hose on the tank ...
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Evolving Uses of Health Care on the Internet

Health care on the Internet has diversified and grown exponentially in the past two or three years. As health care on the Internet continues to evolve from fairly static first generation information sites toward third generation interactive health ...
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Expert Medical Reports Required By Article 4590i must Refer To Each Defendant

The San Antonio Court of Appeals in Morrill v. Third Coast Emergency Physicians, P.A., (Opinion delivered October 11, 2000) held that §13 of the Medical Liability and Insurance Improvement Act, Article 4590i, Texas Revised Civil Statutes, requires ...
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Facing the Oncoming Onslaught of Criminal Environmental Enforcement

"I have always been dependent on the kindness of strangers"Â— Blanche Dubois, "A Streetcar Named Desire." The Michigan Attorney General's office has publically stated that it intends to dramatically increase the number of criminal cases it brings ...
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Fact Sheet: Involuntary Allotment From Military Personnel for Commercial Debt

By enacting Public Law 103-94, the "Hatch Act Reform Amendments of 1993," (codified at 5 U.S.C. 5520a) Congress authorized the garnishment of federal civilian employees' pay to satisfy commercial debts. In that same law, Congress authorized ...
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Fact Sheet: Protecting Medicare Beneficiaries After HMOs Withdraw

Contact: HCFA Press Office (202) 690-6145 HCFA FACT SHEET Most of Medicare's 38 million beneficiaries receive care through original fee-for-service Medicare. However, more and more beneficiaries -- currently about 6.5 million -- have joined ...
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Failure to remove laparotomy pad after surgery

Monmouth County The plaintiff contended that the defendant ob/gyn negligently failed to read this report and maintained that had he done so, he would have realized that the mistaken description of a drain referred to the pad. The radiologist argued ...
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Federal Antikickback Convictions Chill Hospital-Physician Contractual Relationships

IN United States v. Anderson, No. 98-20030 (D. Kan. transcript filed Mar. 9, 1999) ("Anderson"), a federal jury convicted two hospital executives and two physicians in an alleged $2.2 million Medicare and Medicaid anti-kickback scheme. The ...
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Federal Trade Commission’s Enforcement Policy Statement on Food Advertising

May 1994 I. Introduction II. Legal Framework for Commission Action III. Nutrient Content Claims Footnotes Introduction The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is issuing this statement to provide guidance regarding its enforcement policy with respect to ...
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Fiduciaries

In making a will, you must choose a fiduciary. At a minimum, you will need to appoint an executor. You may also need to appoint a trustee or a guardian. Executors, trustees and guardians are all fiduciaries, appointed by you to perform certain ...
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