For healthcare professionals moving to a new practice, restrictions on soliciting patients to continue treatment at the new location can raise concerns about patient abandonment. What are your rights and responsibilities?
Can you cross state lines with your Illinois license? We examine the medical, nursing, dental, and physical therapy compacts. Read on to learn about who supports them, who opposes them, and how they impact you.
Noncompetes typically limit an individual’s right to join or start a competitor business within a certain geographic range and for a designated period of time. Here, we answer the most common questions about these agreements.
Orthodontists should maintain a basic awareness of how healthcare fraud, waste, and abuse laws may impact their practice. Here’s a primer on Stark Law, AKS, and related IL laws.
To protect the privacy of their address and assets, medical providers should consider a land trust for their next home purchase.
Telehealth prescribing offers physicians, psychiatrists emerging options for reaching patients with psychiatric, substance abuse, pain treatment.
Terminating employees is risky and costly. If done incorrectly, the termination can create legal liability for the practice. We explore what a medical practice should consider before letting an employee go.
What is the maternal mortality crisis and what practical steps can we take to remove institutional racial and gender biases in the U.S. healthcare system?
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 your veterinary practice is thinking about offering telehealth, telemedicine, or mobile health services, it is important that you build compliance into your process.
