Law & Malpractice

Ready or not, office holiday parties are back this year. These are some of the risks that practice owners and leaders should manage to help ensure a stress-free holiday and a positive transition to the New Year.

Emergency funds, retirement accounts, and more.

Physicians Practice® spoke with Kristina Hutson, a product line developer at Availity, about surprise billing events in independent healthcare practices and what owners and administrators can do to reduce the likelihood of their occurrence.

On December 2, 2020, CMS published new provisions and exemptions related to the Stark Law (85 Fed. Reg. 77492) and HHS-OIG published new provisions and safe harbors related to the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) (85 Fed. Reg. 77684.

Research shows medical offices and clinics are vulnerable to inadvertent spread.

The healthcare transparency act was recently updated. Here’s what it’s about and its potential consequences.

Code accurately with the appropriate documentation to substantiate medical necessity.

Basic rules to be aware of and some specific tax plans that require extreme caution and due diligence.

Two experts sit down and talk about asset protection.

What doctors must understand about their insurance and why not all polices are equal.

How to talk with patients about vaccine concerns.

By making strategic yet affordable investments and undertaking specific basic measures, smaller practices can make great strides to strengthen their defenses.

With the impending reporting period upon providers, this article highlights the current status of Reporting Period 1 and relays some recent enforcement actions.

In part seven of our look at medical malpractice risk we examine specific liability issues from recent media reports and about physicians and healthcare.

AI can decrease strain on nurses and other healthcare professionals and allow them focus on the tasks technology cannot address.

While texting can make things a lot easier (and more profitable), it can also be easy to unknowingly violate HIPAA regulations.

As more states enact biometric laws (although none are as robust as Illinois), healthcare AI companies, covered entities, and business associates should take note and take steps to update compliance programs in order to reduce the risk of a lawsuit and a potentially criminal HIPAA violation.

Physicians’ professional liability has been heightened by both the pandemic and the significant disinformation and politicization surrounding vaccines and various unsafe treatment and prevention methods

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Having a good estate plan can be critical in ensuring that your family is well taken care of after you are gone.

Understanding what should be included in a required HIPAA BAA is essential.

Only a quarter of Medicare and Medicare Advantage recipients receive an annual wellness visit.

In part 5 of our look at malpractice asset protection strategies, we cover the basics every physician must know about medical malpractice insurance.

While helpful, the increase in electronic patient information creates more opportunity for errors, omissions, or mistakes that can ultimately lead to an unintended patient outcome and subsequent evidence against a provider in a legal proceeding.

Email is one area ripe for AI innovation.