Law & Malpractice

Physicians who maintain financial arrangements with laboratories to which they refer should be aware of a new special fraud alert.

Many physicians travel and volunteer their services. However, if you plan to deduct your volunteer-related expenses, there are rules that you should know about.

If your practice accepts medical liens as part of your payer mix, it's a good idea to have a specific follow-up plan in place.

Measuring a return on investment for EHRs is not only key to showing the project paid off; it can also ensure ongoing success and adoption.

Providing your patients with useful clinical summaries to meet meaningful-use requirements might be trickier than you expect.

One of the new menu objectives for the Stage 2 rules of meaningful use stresses care coordination through recording electronic progress notes.

In the three years since the first providers began attesting, meaningful use has already started benefiting patients.

Asset protection is an increasing concern for many doctors. Not understanding that a large IRA inherited from a parent is vulnerable could be a tragic error.

State case ruling indicates that patients may lack standing to successfully sue practices for potential damages due to a HIPAA breach.

If you decide to terminate a physician or other provider at your practice, here are three key things to keep in mind to help your remaining staff and patients.

Get data from this year's 2014 Technology Survey, Sponsored by Kareo, on EHR implementation, mobile technology, meaningful use, and other health IT issues.

Asset protection is a vital part of every physician's essential legal and financial plan; unfortunately, most doctors don't know how to pick the right legal help.

Hospitals are not only marking up and selling 340B-discounted drugs, but also buying up clinics to take advantage of the discount – a clear "progress trap."

The debate over pros and cons of health IT persist, but to find success in your medical practice you need one key element: buy-in from the key players.

Physicians sometimes fall behind in their paperwork and take work home to complete. Are you aware of the risks that raises for your practice?

Communicating electronically with patients is convenient, but also risky. Here, a risk management professional shares some of the biggest mistakes to avoid.

Increase patient portal adoption by using these sample talking points during four critical portal promotion opportunities.

As use of care teams increases, physicians need to ensure their malpractice policies fully protect them.

Physicians are likely to be challenged with conflict in their practices. It is important to know how to approach it in a positive manner.

The Stage 2 rules of meaningful use call for a security risk analysis of your practice. Here are some common sources of data loss to examine.

CMS has offered a bit of a reprieve to eligible providers struggling to meet the meaningful use guidelines for Stage 2. Here are the details.

Meaningful use can be confusing. Here are some of the key things practices should know about attesting for Stage 1 of the EHR incentive program.

Complying with health reform mandates isn't easy. The wise physician will pick and choose those measures that make sense for his practice.

There is a lot of confusion about the meaningful use incentives. The most significant relates to the government's objectives in offering them.

When it comes to asset protection, keeping investments "secret" does not benefit investors, and may even place them at risk of fraud.