Law & Malpractice

Non-physicians are encroaching on physician domain

Using informed consent to protect against malpractice suits

Should physicians be permitted to assist a terminally ill patient commit suicide?

Understand when you need to pay overtime to staff

Physicians should update compliance plans annually, following the OIG's interest

Are pay-for-performance plans a Trojan horse?

Facts on making legal changes to medical records

How to legally end a patient-physician relationship

An imaginative look forward

Now is the time to start focusing and planning for 2005, from a corporate, financial, and operational standpoint.

Two physicians, two views of the healthcare system and the presidential race.

Consider giving patients advance notice if a physician absence is planned.

Politics and Your Practice September 2004

Managing patients from various cultures

Bush and Kerry have different views of the role of physicians

How to ensure integrity for the peer review process

Understand how Stark defines a group practice

Odds are that you have faced a drug-seeking patient. How you respond to them is important.

Be educated and advocate for yourself when it comes to working with Medicare carriers

Cash-only: Are you really ready?

Dropping your malpractice policy may sound great, but don't consider it except as a last resort.

How to develop a formal document retention policy and what is required

How the Office for Civil Rights is handling reported HIPAA violations

Sen. Arlen Specter's (R-Pa.) waffling on malpractice caps provokes ire.

The technology tools doctors use to increase patient safety can be simple or complex