Articles on building and maintaining a compliant healthcare practice. Topics cover HIPAA compliance, fraud, waste, and abuse programs, good faith estimates, informed consent, controlled-substance and procedure SOPs, and patient intake policies and procedures, written for owners putting policies and procedures in place.
Before siging and agreement with an MSO, understand what constitutes a compliant scope of services and compensation model.
To many laboratory owners, paying COVID-19 testing sites based on the number of specimens sounds like smart business. Unfortunately, the practice can run afoul of several laws — with potential penalties for both parties.
Here’s a summary of the legislative changes most likely to affect your Wisconsin healthcare practice or business this year.
Are you wondering how the new No Surprises Act affects your practice? We explain the basics, with particular focus on the requirements for “good faith estimates” for uninsured and self-pay patients.
A new year means a host of new laws take effect in Illinois. Here’s a summary of the changes most likely to affect your healthcare practice or business in 2022.
The Corporate Practice of Medicine (CPOM) doctrine frustrates many entrepreneurs interested in starting a medical practice in many states, including Illinois. In this four-minute video, Erin Jackson explains the basics and a compliant workaround.
What are your obligations to disclose or withhold your minor patients’ sensitive health information?
Did you know that the federal government’s definition of “sex discrimination” now includes sexual orientation and gender identity? This interpretation has real-world implications for healthcare practices. We explain the basics of staying compliant.
Odds are, your healthcare practice has a Notice of Privacy Practices. But do you fully understand it? Do you know its relation to your individualized HIPAA policy handbook? It’s critical to understand these two required documents.
What legal obligations do physicians have to offer care? We examine situations that do and don’t justify turning away a patient.
