To ensure legal compliance, orthodontists, like other healthcare professionals, should maintain a basic awareness of how these healthcare fraud, waste, and abuse laws may impact their practice. To this end, we summarize below the Stark Law, AKS, and related state laws, with an emphasis where applicable on Illinois law. Brace yourself for this number: Of...
To protect the privacy of their address and assets, medical providers should consider a land trust for their next home...
Telehealth prescribing offers physicians, psychiatrists emerging options for reaching patients with psychiatric, substance abuse, pain...
“I’m an at-will employer. Why can’t I just fire someone when I want to?” Practice owners often pose this question to their healthcare employment attorney when asking for the green light to fire an employee. Many states presume that employment relationships are “at-will.” At-will employment means employees are free to resign from their employment at...
Many Black women believe that the U.S. healthcare system contains institutionalized race and gender biases, and that these necessarily linger in the delivery rooms. Black women experience discrimination far beyond the hospital walls. But all of a women’s healthcare providers can help reduce her likelihood of experiencing fatal childbirth complications – whether through cultural competency...
Dentists can structure their practices using a variety of different legal entity forms. Is one of the most common arrangements, a partnership, right for your practice? Here’s what you should know if a partnership agreement will govern your practice’s ownership and management. In today’s dental marketplace, many dentists opt to partner with one or more...
Telehealth is an emerging and exciting opportunity for veterinary practices in Illinois, but one that presents legal, ethical, and technological challenges. If your practice is thinking about offering telehealth, telemedicine, or mobile health services to its patients, it is important that you consider these challenges before you start, so you can build compliance into your...
Generally, an employer is not liable for harassment if the employer takes reasonable steps to discover and rectify incidences of sexual harassment within the workplace. In healthcare, this can mean harassment of or at the hands of either employees or patients. Conversely, employers are liable for sexual harassment when the employer does little or nothing...
Ablative and non-ablative laser treatments for skin rejuvenation are some of the most common and popular services available at medical spas. Because these procedures are considered the practice of medicine in Illinois, only physicians have the legal authority to perform them. However, qualified non-physician personnel may provide laser treatment services, if delegated and supervised by...
It’s a new year, and that means a host of new laws take effect in Illinois. We reviewed them and summarized the ones most likely to impact your healthcare practice. As the new year begins, many laws passed by the Illinois General Assembly also take effect. Over 250 new laws become effective on January 1st,...
