Ericka L. Adler, JD

Closing a practice is a process that can take months to do properly and should not be rushed.

New physicians are not only young clinicians, they are also young people, and regular feedback … [is] what a physician out of training needs.

Here's how to avoid a potentially expensive mistake by misclassifying an employee versus a contractor.

I love working with physicians but they don’t always make it easy for those who work with them, whether it’s other physicians, lawyers, or consultants.

While social media can help a physician's professional reputation grow, the misuse of social media by others can be destructive.

It’s cheaper to spend the time and money setting things up properly at your medical practice then to defend yourself when a problem arises.

Before you are caught with your HIPAA pants down, I recommend you take the following steps to plan for a smooth audit.

As the use of social media grows, physician practices continue to face challenges in the workplace regarding its appropriate use among staff.

Sexual harassment happens every day in the workplace and physician practices are not immune. Here are some tips to handle such situations.

It is always safer and more cost-effective to make sure contracts and business arrangements are established correctly from the start.

Make sure your relationship with a future partner is established properly by communicating and sharing information from the start.

It’s important to consult with a healthcare lawyer to make sure the methodology being applied to designated health services (DHS) income in your practice is compliant.

Before selling any product, physicians must consider all legal and ethical limitations.

Other than answering questions for the EHR, my physician and I barely spoke at my most recent appointment. Here’s how to avoid this at your practice.

The difficulty in collecting payment from patients has only been augmented by the increase in health care plans with high deductibles.

Waiting until the impaired physician is arrested, a patient is injured, or the reputation of the practice is irreparably affected is not an option.

As charitable as physicians want to be, the law does not allow routine write-offs of co-pays and deductibles without risk.

Although it’s often easier and faster to provide medical care to friends and family, physicians should learn to say “no” more often.

This time of year, there are a lot of inquiries about physicians receiving gifts from patients. Here’s some guidance.

A non-solicitation provision should be carefully tailored to the particular practice and there is no “one-size” approach for everyone.

There is a false belief among many young doctors reviewing their first employment agreements that covenants are unenforceable. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Providing medical services for free, or at a reduced rate, at your practice comes with some restrictions.

It’s important to make sure you know who is asking for charts and the reason for audit before shipping off requested documents.

Sometimes better planning and support can resolve poor recordkeeping by physicians. But if the situation becomes intolerable, tough decisions must be made.

Expansion of your medical practice across state lines creates a multitude of issues which physicians often do not realize until it is too late.

When developing a concierge approach for your medical practice, there are six things I recommend doing first.

Adding ancillary services can be a great way to better service your patients and increase practice income. But do it the right way.

Physicians do need to take into consideration state and federal restrictions on marketing activities - including those daily deal websites.

Despite efforts to educate all clients that any payment for referrals is illegal, kickbacks continue to be paid.

Like all other arrangements into which physicians enter, you must take a moment to consider whether there are any regulatory implications.