Law & Malpractice

Hoala Greevy has over 20 years of experience in the email industry, dating back to his first job out of college at Critical Path in San Francisco in 1999. Prior to founding Paubox, Hoala started Hawaii’s first SaaS company (Pau Spam) in 2002. Hoala holds two patents related to email security. An avid kayak fisherman, Hoala has caught three blue marlin from his ocean kayak Scupper Pro. He also holds the IGFA world record for the finescale triggerfish.

Articles

There are plenty of benefits to remote or hybrid teams, but there are also communication and security issues that must be kept in mind.

Effective, HIPAA compliant communication for remote healthcare teams

 advises clients on compliance, transactions, government administrative actions, and litigation involving healthcare, cybersecurity, corporate and securities law, as well as False Claims Act and Dodd-Frank whistleblower cases. She also teaches bioethics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Rachel can be reached through her website, 

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. 


Reminder: Important Stark Effective Date and Physician Group Practices

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

Rigorous outpatient safety protocols as a best practice for infection control

 has 20 years of legal experience focused exclusively on asset protection, risk management and wealth preservation. He helps protect a national client base with more than $6 billion in personal assets, including several thousand physicians. He is a contributing author to multiple books for physicians, a Physicians Practice contributor for over a decade and a frequent national CME presenter. Learn more at 

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

Medical Malpractice and Asset Protection, Part 8: Med Mal Insurance

Dr. Joe Nicholson is the Chief Medical Officer at 

. There, Dr. Joe provides strategic direction, operational oversight, and thought leadership for CareAllies’ clinical programs and operations, including all value-based arrangements within IPA/CIN or ACO constructs. Additionally, he supports business development and provides clinical oversight for all companies and programs under CareAllies, including new models of care rolled out by CMS, like MSSP.

How to talk with patients about vaccine concerns.

COVID-19 Vaccines: Effective patient communication strategies

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

Medical Malpractice and Asset Protection Part 6: Ivermectin and COVID-19 

Videos

The concept of depersonalization and how it affects healthcare delivery and safety for all parties. 

Depersonalization in Healthcare: How it affects safety

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

Malpractice Asset Protection Part 5: Understanding insurance 

Telehealth services, contactless waiting rooms, and pre-visit patient intake are all new procedures facilities across the country have had to adopt.

Tips on opening an optometry practice’s doors to patients post-pandemic

James R. Embrey, Jr. is a Partner at Hall Booth Smith, P.C. who defends Fortune 500 companies and other businesses of all sizes in medical malpractice litigation, general liability, insurance coverage and transportation matters. He previously worked in-house as a Managing Counsel and General Counsel, and earlier in his career he served as an Airborne Infantryman in the United States Army with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and was awarded the Combat Infantryman’s Badge for his service in the Middle East. He can be reached at

Despite the PREP Act’s broad immunity coverage, plaintiffs’ attorneys have already been filing complaints in many jurisdictions. 

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