Healthcare Newsletter
- NPDB Report Response
- MLMIC Payment - Employee Holdouts - Declaratory Relief
- Texas ALJ Awards OCR $4+mil for Stolen Laptop and 2 USB Drive
- MLMIC Cash Payment Recovery from Employees
- What about Text and Email?
- Phoning it in HIPAA compliant?
- Is Tenant or Landlord responsible for ADA Compliance?
- CT court allowing HIPAA Private cause of action?
- Rent Start Date
- Oceanus claims proceeding
- Negotiating a Lease Parachute
- Incentivizing for Cosmetic Service Referral
- NDA Closing Period Running out, Now What?
- Buy-Sell Insurance Pay-out
- Leaky space - Who is responsible?
- NY Courts still buzzing about "fraudulent structure"
- Tips on contracts with employers?
- Kids Down-payment - loan or gift?
- Advice leading up to employee termination
- NPDB Reportable Events Expanded?
- Major Pitfalls of "Net Collections" Compensation
- Hit with audit - do I send path reports?
- Interested in purchasing - pony up non-refundable deposit?
- Selling ASC Interest - just sign it?
- New job is outside non compete, anything else to worry about?
- Received a Friendly Questionnaire from OCR?
- Medicaid "Look-back"
- How many PAs can I supervise?
- Must I release Records when Patient Owes balance?
- Bad Online Review
- Should I invest in an ASC?
- Why Venue Matters
- FileFax, Inc. in receivership still making news for HIPAA exposure
- Obligation to report test results?
- I have a new business!! Do I need a partner contract?
- SmartMD RRG, What's the deal?
- What are standard moving fees?
- When to allow a potential acquirer access for "due diligence/transition"?
- Do I need a BAA with my cleaning company?
- Fired "For Cause", Presumably So Employer Doesn't Have to Pay My Severance
- Basics of asset protection from malpractice claims
- Staffing Agency Fees For Real?
- Important to beat patient to the punch with HIPAA disclosure?
- Do I have to report soon on HIPAA?
- Changing Billers, how do I get my data?
- I do more work then my partner, how do I get more than 50% of money?
- Why can't I use "Center" in my new entity name?
- If I have a good guy guaranty, can I walk away from my lease?
- Licensure ME TOO Action
- How can I get Coop/Condo Approval?
- CPA Comment to Evaluating an Ownership Interest Offer
- Evaluating an Ownership Interest Offer
- Employee dressing inappropriately grounds for termination?
- Can I require employees get vaccinated?
- Thinking of Selling my billing company - am I being offered proper security?
- Marketing contract payment required for 6 months a good idea?
- No Business Associate Agreement? $31K Mistake
- Considering Sale, what are the main points of a non disclosure agreement?
- Thinking of Selling, what should my timeline be?
- Received Suspension letter from hospital I have staff privileges at, now what?
- Staff Member acting out and being disruptive for being written up
- Should my billing company give patients their records?
- Can I take consulting work paid on a percentage basis?
- Should I submit for an OPMC interview?
- Where do I find what Residents can and cannot do?
- USB for record request?
- When can I dock an employee?
- Employee notices of last minute leave, now what?
- Do I need a Trademark?
- Name change - how and what next?
- Follow up - Management Companies under the gun?
- Should I set up a Management Company?
- Employer breached contract, can I ignore non compete?
- Patient refund - do I need a release?
- Why do I want auto-renew in my employment agreement?
- Selling - do I need a term sheet to get started?
- Do I need to put an employee on probation before firing? Does it matter if she is new?
- How do I handle Employee No-Shows the day before or after a holiday?
- Short day, do I need to give employees a break?
- Should I fill out job clearance form for patient requested by employer?
- Selling my practice - do I have to disclose my payor agreements?
- Rejecting prospective hire because he sued prior employer ok?
- Responding to a Licensure inquiry
- E/M NGS Coding Changes
- May I ask a patient with an emotional support dog to take the dog out of my practice for sanitary reasons?
- What general risks should I be aware of in equipment rental agreements? Do I have to send it to you? Isn't it standard?
- May I ask a disabled patient with a service dog to take the dog out of my practice for sanitary reasons?
- Opportunity to give notice closing before New Contract being issued - now what?
- Does my employee qualify for unemployment benefits?
- Should service providers with patient contact sign non solicit?
- What if the inappropriate person is one of the bosses?
- Employee inappropriate with staff, am I responsible as Employer?
- I want to quit my job, where do I start?
- How do I know what insurance companies I am credentialed with?
- When do I need a Business Associate Agreement?
- Potential Tenant or Percentage Profit Center?
- Organized Medicine/Dentistry; Where's Jennifer? Catch an upcoming seminar date or just come celebrate Organized Medicine/Dentistry
- Who Is Qualified To Do The E-Prescribing Through Our EMR System?
- How do I get off prepayment review? / Q on starting a practice - what do I call you for?
- Thinking about starting a practice...
- How long do I have to keep patient records and do I have to maintain the Entire record?
- Do I have to give time and pay for employees on jury duty?
- Handbook says I'm "At Will" but contract requires I get notice - which governs?
- 1099 v. W2 - cost differential?
- Communicating with patients compliantly by email?
- Should I be putting all my extra cash into paying down my high interest student loans?
- HIPAA patient consent, emailing PHI, etc.
- Afraid to prescribe Schedule II narcotics. What can I do to protect my practice and license?
- Who is required to have OSHA training and how often in NY?
- What breaks am I required to give my employees? (NY, NJ, CT)
- Can I email Test results?
- Do I need contracts for my staff if they signed my employee handbook?
- Required to mail test results Certified if no response to VM?
- Profit matter for entity formation?
- Comments on - Can I bill for a telehealth visit, and who?
- Can I bill for a telehealth visit, and who?
- Why all the heat?
- Do I need a Guaranty from Primary Insured?Action for money had and received!
- What are the key provisions to watch out for in my first contract after residency/fellowship?
- Who should check the Medicare Exclusions list?
- OON Provider receives Medicare and Patient payment, what now?
- HIPAA Hooplah Hullabaloo? Where to begin preventative compliance
- Can I throw my computers out and go back to paper charts?
- 2017 Checklist
- Unscheduled In-Office Visit (Payor or Government Agent)
- Business Associate Agreements are more than just forms you have to sign!
- How to evaluate a partnership offer
- Is my billing company a "debt collector" subject to prohibitions on certain conduct?
- Is it time to certify my OMIG Compliance Program?/Service Bureau Question
- Was the Overtime rule delayed?
- Comment on Tuesday's email - rendering and billing for services outside our specialty
- Billing for "fellowship" services ok?
- Where can I report a business for deceptive trade practices?
- Who is authorized to work as a Coder?
- How do I know what benefits and time off I get?
- Patient audio recording illegal?
- Do I have to provide space, money or time for a breastfeeding employee?
- Federal Register Insight - Using Hospital Resources - Split-Bill Remuneration - DHS Entity Woes
- OIG and CMS now recognizing "Time Share" arrangements
- Does my small practice need a buy-sell?
- ACA Requiring Covered Entities to provide translators, Post New Anti-Discrimination Signs (Language Access) and adopt policies by July 18, 2016
- Am I protected from subcontractors?
- Proper transfer of custodianship in sale
- When can I ask a job applicant citizenship status?
- Addressing my practice's brand
- Lunch sponsored by Pharma ok?
- My Hospital is building a record against me. What do I do?
- Can I require a doctor's note before an employee returns to work?
- Exposure for consulting?
- In NYC, can I require documentation for employee out on sick leave?
- In-Network status following to new office in new state?
- Follow up to Cameras in the waiting room?
- Cameras in the waiting room?
- Groupon Model for Docs ok?
- Allowed to shred records?
- Contract expired. Subject to restrictions?
- Landlord estoppel certificate - can I sign?
- Drug seeking patient - possibly distributing; response?
- How do I calculate workweek?
- Employee loan repayment from salary withhold ok?
- WEBINAR Today! Sign up and overview - NEW Overtime Requirements effective December 1, 2016
- WEBINAR Today! Sign up and overview - NEW Overtime Requirements effective December 1, 2016
- Q. NYS ePrescribe delayed? A. NO!
- WEBINAR SIGN UP - NEW Overtime Requirements effective December 1, 2016
- NEW Overtime Requirements effective December 1, 2016; are you classifying and paying properly?
- SUMMER FEVER (AKA BEACH) CAUSING EMPLOYEE SICK DAYS TO RISE? (Previously printed on August 12, 2015)
- Dissatisfied patient asked me to rescind bill to Medicare, what now?
- Who is responsible for patient records? Practice or treating doctor?
- OIG's most wanted to alleviate concerns?
- Mid-Level Providers trumping Doctors, Help! / 6/14 Webinar Sign Up (Avoiding Legal Conflict!)
- 6/14 Webinar Sign Up (Avoiding Legal Conflict!) Sign up for Next Tuesday's Free Webinar
- How long should I keep records, x-rays and EOBs? / 6/14 Webinar Sign Up (Avoiding Legal Conflict!)
- How to properly fire "for cause" / 6/14 Webinar Sign Up (Avoiding Legal Conflict!)
- Why are so many dentists classified as 1099?
- Appropriate disclosure for Snail mail?
- Why is money subtracted on my explanation of benefits?
- KK HEALTHCARE EXCHANGE
- What is Red Flags Rule and does it apply to my practice?
- Patient refuses to show ID - refuse care?
- Quit but did I give proper notice?
- Exclusion list - check before you hire!
- Interested in running a free K&K classified ad for new hires, purchase or other? (looking for feedback!)
- Marketing free services legal? - Follow up question
- Marketing free services legal?
- Am I HIPAA compliant? How do I know?
- Waiting room HIPAA concerns
- Open (structurally) office ok?
- Why to read and have reviewed an NDA
- Getting out of Jury Duty
- Payment Suspension (allowed for Medicare and Medicaid funds) - Advantage CMS!
- Family loan to practice ok?
- Requiring settlement consent; MLMIC physician owned malpractice carrier Announces 20% Dividend
- Payor contract in name of practice or practitioner?
- Payor contract negotiable?
- Recover Your Unknown Lost Money - NJ and Other
- Recover Your Unknown Lost Money
- Supervision for Esthetician performing laser
- Records left, now what?
- Can I hire an aesthetician to perform laser services in NY?
- Should I sign the letter of intent?
- Peer contributions! NPI check and Financing advice!
- Is sharing space fee splitting?
- Protection from Misuse of NPI?
- What to expect buying (or selling) real property
- Primaries free and specialists pay for scheduling platform - issue?
- Mid-level expansion efforts tied to liability?
- Home services consultant kosher?
- Can I back out of a signed contract?
- Fact patient sees me HIPAA protected?
- Can I use my financial policy to protect against future care related damages?
- Does my phlebotomist need malpractice insurance?
- Do I need a non-disclosure?
- Comments on Ok to bill for IC or Locums while away?
- Ok to bill for IC or Locums while away?
- New Year's Bonus ok?
- "Innocuous" Disclosure to Unauthorized family member ok?
- Sign on Bonus Snafus
- Two patients, same time, no one the wiser?
- Reminder for NYS Medicaid Participants - TIME FOR ANNUAL COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATION
- EHR Meaningful Use Audits - CMS wants its money back!
- Can I charge employees a portion of my overhead?
- HIPAA Breach Notification Webinar & Q&As
- HIPAA Breach Notification Webinar - Tomorrow!
- Can I offer free services as incentive if cosmetic?/ WEDNESDAY WEBINAR SIGNUP (HIPAA)
- Credit card convenience fee okay?/ NEW K&K WEBINAR SIGNUP!!! (HIPAA)
- Can my new hire's blog result in exposure for me?/ NEW K&K WEBINAR SIGNUP!!! (HIPAA)
- Reminder! Sign up for Tomorrow's Free Webinar - Important EMPLOYEE tips - overtime, breaks, classification and more! (Great for Practice Manager)
- Reminder! Sign up for Free Webinar Wednesday - Important EMPLOYEE tips - overtime, breaks, classification and more! (Great for Practice Manager)
- Contract expired, can my terms change?/ NEW K&K WEBINAR SIGNUPS!!! (HIPAA / EMPLOYEE STUFF!)
- HIPAA Exposure in equipment sale?/ NEW K&K WEBINAR SIGNUPS!!! (HIPAA / EMPLOYEE STUFF!)
- How long will it take to form my new practice? / NEW K&K WEBINAR SIGNUPS!!! (HIPAA / EMPLOYEE STUFF!)
- How often do I have to update my BAAs? / NEW K&K WEBINAR SIGNUPS!!! (HIPAA / EMPLOYEE STUFF!)
- Q and Comment on billing company responsible for wrong ICD-10 claims submissions?
- To what extent is my billing company responsible for wrong ICD-10 claims submissions?
- Liability for Mid-Level continued...
- Liability for Mid-Level?
- How are CMS Recovery Audit Contractors going to be stopped?
- Office manager fesses up to stealing time, now what?
- Medicare record keeping requirements?
- Exposure from prescribing electronically software?
- Comment on Ok to have independent contractors?
- Ok to have independent contractors?
- Bogus Office Visits Admission for NJ Doc
- OCR clarifies "Spouse" definition in aftermath of Windsor decision
- Reminder to address Gender-Based discrimination after Brooklyn Hospital agreement
- SUMMER FEVER (AKA BEACH) CAUSING EMPLOYEE SICK DAYS TO RISE?
- Office manager quit, what can I get her to sign before she walks out the door?
- Do I need a handbook or contracts for my employees?
- Product idea, first step?
- Practice Protection from Employee through contract
- Employer Legal Trouble, Way out of RC?
- Waiving or ignoring very high deductible plans ok?
- Received Attorney General Letter for Deceptive Trade Practices?
- Do I need a pre-nup with my practice partner?
- Can I record patient calls?
- Payor mistake, can I keep cash?
- Backing out of employment - risks?
- Charging for Admin time
- Why you should negotiate and work with your healthcare attorney on your letter of intent
- EMR Vendor requires PHI for marketing in lieu of Fee - kosher?
- Restrictive Covenant Negotiating Tips
- Gratitude for referrals through gifts?
- Academia "Invention" contract negotiable?
- Spotting "Sham" kickback schemes and avoiding the tabloids
- OIG Hit List: Pediatric Dental Services
- Multiple requests for patient record, can I say no?
- WHEN do I have to respond to a patient record request?
- Patients threatening to sue me over co-pays!
- Contract term expired, now what?
- Can I hire a shredding company under HIPAA for my records?
- I've been subpoenaed! Duces Tecum
- Potential Employer refusing requested contract changes, now what?
- Am I creating HIPAA liability by calling patient names in my waiting room?
- Terminated employee remaining a patient?
- Paying referral sources, it just makes sense!
- Terminating a contract without an applicable termination clause...
- Medical Assistant administering Flu Shots
- HIPAA Disclosures to Employers allowed?
- Surprise Bill? "Referral" matters!
- Webinar Link - Avoiding "Surprise Bills" with recommended policies and procedures
- sign-up: Webinar Tomorrow - Avoiding "Surprise Bills" with recommended policies and procedures - April 1 Deadline (NY MD, DO, DDS, DPM, DC, PT...
- Improper contract termination / ThursdayWebinar Sign-up: Avoiding "Surprise Bills" with recommended policies and procedures
- Good Partnership Offer?
- ePrescribe 1 year delay approved!
- Avoiding required dispute resolution to get paid for Surprise Bills (NY Only, Effective 4/1)
- Calling all NY Practitioners! Time to Adopt Protections against “Surprise Bills”
- Is my restrictive covenant enforceable?
- Received a NYS Office of Medicaid Inspector General Compliance Plan Letter, Now What?
- HIPAA Breach Reporting - Last week to report!
- 2 WEBINAR SIGN-UP - Tips for Employers; Dentists leaving training choosing between employee or entrepreneur!!
- Requesting and maintaining patient social security numbers
- Maintaining charts after retirement required?
- Restrictive Covenant enforceable after I leave my job?
- WEBINAR SIGN-UP - EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS
- Patients required to fill out office forms and provide social?
- Is hospital employment for me?
- What about if I hire a Resident?
- HIPAA Breach Reporting - Its time to report!
- Hiring a Medical Student to help with practice ok?
- Sale/Purchase Price - Allocation Matters
- Charging for "abnormal" results call ok? Comments from Coding Experts!
- Charging for "abnormal" results call ok?
- Reminder for the New Year - Biggest HIPAA Exposure: Your Staff
- Introducing our newest Firm member!
- Non NY doc writing scrip for NY patient and reverse...
- Do I have to ePrescribe as a NY practitioner? Can't I still use my prescription pads?
- New Year, New NY ePrescribing Requirements Imminent
- Does a letter of intent bind me to a deal?
- HIPAA Breach Reporting - Almost time to report!
- Payor as ERISA "Fiduciary" offering protection from draconian payment practices?
- Can I bill out of network through another tax ID?
- Preparing for employment contracting season / Contact Jennifer to schedule a talk for your residency program in early 2015
- NYS Medicaid Participants - TIME FOR ANNUAL COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATION
- DEA License Required for Credentialing Purposes?
- OCR promulgates BULLETIN: HIPAA Privacy in Emergency Situations
- HIPAA Qs: employee BAA? Third party Implied consent by patient?
- Who is responsible for paying my malpractice insurance?
- Can we contact "Emergency Contact" for non-emergency?
- Selling my practice, allow use of my name?
- Marketing person as 1099 ok?
- Treating a family member ok?
- Emailing with Patient's Family Members ok? / Comment on Encrypted Emails
- Emailing with Patients - Comment
- Emailing with Patients / Emailing with Encryption (caution: due diligence required!)
- Easy In doesn't mean Easy Out in practice move to employment
- Do I need a business associate agreement with my EMR vendor?
- Fresh Start, Cash Only - Comment / K&K Update - 3 K&K Partners named to SuperLawyers
- Removal from Medicare Prepayment Review
- Multiple Office Locations, Multiple DEA Registrations Required?
- Clean Slate/Fresh Start, Cash Only - good idea?
- Insurance cherry picking to maximize reimbursement a good idea?
- WSJ bringing heat to Lab fees paid to practitioners
- Pre-Fall cleaning - record maintenance requirements
- Pre-Fall cleaning - medical record discard
- Practice Closure: what to do with EMR and malpractice coverage?
- Baby Photos as HIPAA Breach? NYT Article highlighting concern.
- Have you updated your Business Associate Agreements? Avoid potential fines, update Must Be Updated Before September 23, 2014!
- Responding to Patients by email ok?
- Dating a patient ok?
- What sort of policy do I need to email with patients?
- Email marketing HIPAA compliant?
- How do I get off of Pre-Payment Review? / Check out Jennifer's Controlled Substance Safeguard Webinar, recorded last week
- Doc pays price of freedom for egregious Oxy abuse
- Law requiring patients to pay balance bill?
- Documentation Requirements by Statute?
- Refusing to Accept Amex due to hassle? Change in Amex Policy is here.
- HHS Announces $83.4M of ACA Spending Towards Primary Care Residency Programs
- Involved in a Not-For-Profit? Some new requirements are in place, effective July 1, 2014
- Positives from NRAD Patient HIPAA Breach
- Charging for admin time filling out patient forms OK?
- Cameras in my waiting room allowed?
- Employee Wage Garnishment Demand - Do I have to comply?
- OPMC Checking Your Physician Profile
- Dealing with Obsessed Patient
- NYS Medicaid Waiver - $8 billion being reinvested to community health by Medicaid Redesign Team
- Emailing with Patients Kosher?
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia Medical Center Pay $4.8 Million for HIPAA Breach
- Problems in agreeing to a percentage deal
- Renting space, do I need a sign?
- Backing out of employment before start date, what are the ramifications?
- Employment Letter of Intent - Understanding Impact and To Sign or Not to Sign?
- How long after payment can payors ask for money back?
- How to terminate a terrible patient
- Personal Exposure from HIPAA for all provider type
- Compliance requirement: Policies AND Continued Risk Assessment, Intro to HHS Risk Assessment Tool
- $1,975,220 Fine for 2 Stolen Laptops?
- Contract Negotiation Strategy?
- NY's Appellate Division Endorses Private Cause of Action against Insurers
- Insurer Error, Refund Required?
- Employees Working Remotely / Recommendation on discarding Controlled Substances
- Storing and Safeguarding Controlled Substances at Your Practice
- Patients Keeping Checks, what now?
- OIG Targets Medicaid Pediatric Dental Services
- Medicare Audit, Doc departed with records, now what?
- Who’s Responsible For Claim Liability?
- Proper protocol to maintain credit cards on file
- Doctor loses right to practice in NY for failing to maintain records for prescribing to self and family
- Non-Disclosure Agreement coming with employment contracting territory?
- Preparing for Contract Season
- Employee Termination - At Will or otherwise?
- You are required to voluntarily report HIPAA Breaches by Saturday to the HHS Secretary
- Carrier Terminations
- Charging for Telehealth (Skype) Services
- OIG 2014 Workplan - Chiros Beware!
- Message on Patient Answering Machine OK? / OBS Clarification
- Can I rent space from an Office Based Surgery practice?
- Am I ready to fire?
- Am I required to to have an ADA policy at my practice?
- Doc leaves, forwarding contact info required for how long?
- Sham Consulting Agreements Revealed in NJ Lab Referral Scheme
- Do I need to post a NYS Labor Law poster at my practice?
- How long do I have to keep patient records?
- Derm Practice Pays for stolen Thumb Drive - OCR says - Ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
- ANNUAL CERTIFICATION REMINDER FOR MEDICAID PARTICIPANTS - Deadline New Year!
- Medicare Incentive Payment Recoupments!
- PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION, A VALUABLE REMEDY - CT / UNITED INJUNCTION EXPLAINED
- Fairfield and Hartford County Medical Associations Enjoin United from Dropping CT Physicians!
- Tips for your new job search
- Accepting gifts from patients ok?
- Self-insured plans as trend or future? Without spending a great amount of time recapping the major headlines of the past few weeks, the search is on for better insurance options. And, while this search has been topical for some time, recent attention
- How long do I have to keep patient records and do I have to maintain the Entire record?
- DISSATISFACTION WITH EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE: A STEP BY STEP GUIDE
- Business Associate Agreement required for answering service?
- Employment Contracting - Ensuring Easy Out?
- HIPAA Security Risk Analysis good idea?
- Charging patients for admin time, i.e., filing out disability paperwork
- Forming your own practice
- Heads Up! Medicare Ramps for Prepayment Audits for specific codes
- Firing Employee for Family-related Absences, FMLA?
- Have W-2s who are also 1099s? Or not sure?
- Compensation based on Relative Value Units?
- Where can I restrict an employee from working?
- Prescription Monitoring Registry Patient Notice Required?
- Navigating Difficult Workplace Conversation
- Sending Secure Emails
- How long should I keep employee records?
- Choosing a Privacy Officer
- Notice of new Privacy Policy requirements - Preparing for September 23rd Deadline!
- Refunding patient money, Part 2 / I-STOP Patient Distribution?
- Refunding patient money
- Responding to patient "unrelated" inquir
- FREE I-STOP Policy for all KK PLAN Members
- How do I keep my practice I-STOP compliant?
- I-STOP now effective - No Health Commerce Account yet? (for NYS Practitioners)
- Good idea recommending patients carry living wills?
- Subpoena for Medical Records, Do I have to respond?
- OIG Charges 7 Docs with Importing Unapproved Drugs
- How to handle missing copays?
- EMR Security / HIPAA alerts, when do I know if its Junk Mail?
- Patient cancels first appointment - obligation to patient?
- Business Ownership Tip 101 - General Accounting Knowledge
- Patient request for records, hinting at malpractice - now what?
- New York Preparing for the Prescription Monitoring Registry
- Notice of new Privacy Policy requirements
- Is any process required prior to treating workers comp patients?
- Incentive compensation paid by manufacturer okay?
- Refusing to treat non-paying patient okay?
- Controlled Substances Registry Checking Required as of August 27, 2013
- Accused of Copyright infringement?
- Insurance for HIPAA Privacy Exposure
- Protecting yourself in a buy-out
- Contesting negative online reviews
- Marketing as the practice gateway for investigators
- FIRING FOR NO GOOD REASON CAUSE FOR CONCERN?
- Issues with insurance companies
- Accepting gifts from patients okay?
- Paying a percentage to your biller - UPDATE!
- Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing Overview in under 7 minutes!
- Looking to hire, not sure what to offer
- New Hire not working out, now what?
- Commission-Based Marketer?
- How to terminate an awful patient?
- Groupon revisited! Care Credit recoupment?
- Acceptable means of patient communications - Records
- Acceptable means of patient communications
- Why you need a new Business Associate Agreement
- Online advice creating exposure?
- Hospital Employer Controlling Right to Settle
- ASC Member Liability
- Come December 2014, Goodbye Prescription Pads, Hello EPrescribe! (Maybe?)
- RC enforceable when terminated w/o cause? / Enforcing ethical obligation
- Right to take patients with you
- Requirements for Closing Practice
- Higher rates through affiliation?
- Free Access to Electronic Interface - kickback?
- Ok, what if I did "split fees" with an online marketer? Now what?
- Online marketing campaign illegal? / The Battle of the Beverage
- Indemnification: What it means and why it's important
- Record Request for Deceased
- Approaching Practice Financial Instability
- Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing (I-STOP) Act - Registry Creation, Duty to Check
- Understanding CMS's Physician Quality Reporting System Payment Adjustment
- Heritage matter, Group busted for billing Admin fee
- NEW HIPAA Rules - Responsible for Business Associate's Acts
- Sunshine Act - Spreading Transparency and Reporting Requirements to Manufacturers Your Practice deals with
- Webinar Sign-up and Info on HIPAA Privacy, Security, Enforcement, and Breach Notification Rules Changes
- Ordering Canada Prescriptions Okay?
- Restrictive Covenant Qs / Comment on How do I know what to bill and when to bill it? Example from Billing for Diabetes Self Management Training Q&A
- How do I know what to bill and when to bill it? Example from Billing for Diabetes Self Management Training Q&A
- Security Cameras in Common Area Legal?
- Management arrangement kosher?
- Reportable to the NPDB? What is the NPDB?
- From hospital employee to solo practice
- Miscellaneous Insurance/Billing Q's - Billing under another doc's name/Fee negotiation/Different Docs, Different rates?
- Received recoupment request?
- Compensation for referrals?
- Crash Cart required?
- Connecting new practice doc to Medicare
- Par Doc, New Service, Refuse Insurance OK?
- Paid to Order - Too good to be legal?
- Nurse Practitioner "Supervision" Requirement?
- Opening to liability by certifying compliance plan?
- Accept Medicaid? Time to certify your compliance program
- Practice settles with HHS over Public Internet-Based Patient Calendar (and other offenses)
- Paid time off for voting?/Disaster unemployment
- Practice closed - required to pay employees?
- Practice closed - providing patients notice
- Who may consent to a minor's treatment?
- Practice advertising meeting regulatory requirements?
- Charging Patients a Cancellation Fee - patient disputing charge
- Charging Patients a Cancellation Fee
- The Office of the Inspector General 2013 Work Plan is here!
- Can I practice within the range of my restrictive covenant?
- Payment denials - Guilty until proven innocent!
- May a doctor own equity in a billing company?
- Lease concerns from practice perspective?
- Collecting Co-Pays Required?
- Handling Employee no-show post holiday
- Negotiating partnership terms question
- Question-Comment on OBS reimbursement, Insurance denial plan/Follow up on Internist hiring Dentist legal?
- Internist hiring Dentist legal?
- Is my practice sellable?
- New Practice, First Steps?
- Compliance on OMIG Work Plan and Radar
- Terminating patient for being "bad person" okay?
- Thoughts on installing audio/video in my practice?
- Do I have to pay overtime?
- Participating Provider Contract Negotiable?
- OIG - Glaxo Settlement / Medicare PCP proposed pay increase / OMIG Compliance Alert
- Indemnification by Hospital
- Should Hospital Employee be concerned about Unscheduled In-office Investigation?
- Unscheduled In-office Investigation
- Social Networing covered by Non-Solicit clause?
- Protecting your practice name
- Medical Services Agreement v. Sublease
- Automated External Defibrillator
- New Employer? EPLI Recommended!
- Accepting gifts from patients kosher?
- Receiving record request before getting paid?
- In-Office Sale of Products okay?
- Questionable Advertising – Direct mailing to patients/ Music video rhinoplasty solicitation -
- What contracts does my Practice really need?
- Offering free consults
- Can I provide free transportation for my patients?
- Mandatory vacation days or closures?
- Legal collections process
- Right to contact patients after leaving position
- Patient responsibility for their own care - right to terminate patient?
- Comments on Finding the right assistance with billing
- Comments on Finding the right assistance with billing
- Finding the right assistance with billing
- Charging co-pay for no-show okay?
- Appropriate response to request for information
- Comments on Pre-authorization received, payment denied
- Pre-authorization received, payment denied
- Allowable charge to patient for medical records on CD
- New entity? Don't forget workers compensation insurance for your employees!
- Patient notification post-associate departure?
- Understanding the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate formula
- Required pay for employee on maternity leave?
- Conflict of interest where partner of patient becoming referral source
- Charging some but not others
- Office for Civil Rights hires Big Guns - KPMG - to audit HIPAA Compliance
- Requirements for Patient follow-up?
- Comment - An end in sight to Out of Network?
- Can I hire medical students to help out at my practice?
- Should I incorporate, and, if so, to what?
- An insurer is requesting records for each patient for each claim I submit. Why? And how do I stop this?
- Rendering services on yourself and billing for them Kosher?
- Checking to make sure your new hire isn't an "excluded" provider
- Should I send in records requested by an insurer?
- Reporting False Claims
- Question on Paying a Billing Company or Biller a Percentage a No No?
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- Keeping OMIG in check?
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- Lease question from practice perspective
- Creating an Operational Multi-Disciplinary Practice
- Recording Staff Phone Calls, Notice Required
- Medicare Annual Wellness Visits - Medicare's Latest Best Kept Secret
- Billing for Services Under the Correct Entity - Multi-Entity Structure
- Advertising by Gender
- Keeping myself and my practice off of the OIG's Most Wanted
- The Office of Inspector General's MOST WANTED
- Offering free consults
- Employee required to work at multiple practice locations?
- What is a Medical Home?
- New Employee Documentation Requirements Effective April 9, 2011 – Added Threat from Backstabbing Employees and Department of Labor
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- Getting Paid for Legitimate Services You Render
- Charging Patients a Cancellation Fee
- What happens if I breach the restrictive covenant in my employment agreement?
- FTC and DOJ Proposed Statement of Antritrust Enforcement for ACOs
- Supervision Requirements for Physician Assistants
- Offering Patients Free Transportation
- New Workers Compensation Medical Treatment Guidelines
- Medicaid's Annual Certification Requirement
- Outsourcing Administrative Services
- Turning Lemons Into Lemonade: Medicaid's Compliance Plan Requirement
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- Exhausted Malpractice Policy - Who Pays and from What?
- Office Matters - Scanning and Shredding Records/Docking Employees on Snow Days
- Beware of Corporate Records Mail Scam
- Medicare - the Few Ruining it for the Many
- Comments on Do I have to Sign my Notes?
- Emailing With Patients? Make Sure You Have a Security Policy in Place
- DOJ and HHS Join Forces for to form HEAT - New Joint Agency to Fight Fraud
- Do I really have to collect co-pays?
- Does Multiple Surgery Rule (same patient, different procedures, same operation) Apply to Non-Pars?
- Divorce and Your Medical Pracitce
- Department of Labor knocking on my Medical Practice's Door; what am I required to maintain?
- Addressing HIPAA and Patient Abandonment
- Pursuing locum tenens arrangement worth it?
- Correction: Medicare Cut Temporarily Averte, Hope For Permanent Fix?
- Appropriate Tasks for Chiropractic Assistants
- Corporate Structure: Options and Considerations
- Comments on Department of Labor Alert - IRS on the prowl as well - Provided by Healthcare Accountant Bryan Koshers
- Commentary - Hospital Relations
- Chiropractor-Physician Permitted Contractual Arrangements
- Charging No Show Hearing Impaired Patients for Interpreter Costs is a NO NO
- Charging for Medical Records
- Billing Surgery that has Medically Necessary and Cosmetic Component
- Billing Medicare for Consultations Codes?
- Billing for Consults? Medicare Prepayment Reviews after 99245s!
- Billing Facility Fees - DOH Says Has To Be Through Professional Entity That Bills for Professional Component As Well
- Balance Billing Take 5, Horizon Blue Cross NJ Suing Non-Pars for Failure to Balance Bill
- Billing for Nurse Practitioner services in a Medical Office
- Balance Billing Take 4, Who's Monitoring Balance Billing?
- Balance Billing, Take 3, Charging Different Rates for Different Patients
- Balance Billing, Take 2: Non-Participating Providers MUST Balance Bill
- Balance Billing: Investigations are up, Do you have a policy in place?
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- Asking Patients to Contract Away Their Right to Sue You, Part 1
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