Can you remember approximately when it was that you first received a multi-page HIPAA mailer communicating to you in seemingly endless detail — and fine print — all the parameters regarding medical providers’ use of your health care data? You likely can’t, although you might recollect that the thick envelope in your mailbox was a…
In an industry as heavily regulated as health care, every company needs an edge on compliance. A successful organization will have to identify and wade through layers of legal issues, and when it has, along may come buyout offer. Or perhaps you’re considering buying or merging with another health care organization? Before you consider your…
Any person who takes a bit of time garnering even a rudimentary amount of knowledge concerning what is entailed in a health care compliance officer’s job, or what features at the workplace for that individual on a daily basis, might readily conjure up a bit of sympathy. Because here’s the bottom line regarding that occupation…
We have stressed in many prior blog posts the singular nature of the health care industry across many dimensions, including, centrally, the realm’s uppercase concern with this constant and ever-growing threat: attacks by hackers aimed at medical actors’ proprietary and most confidential data. Although that of course spells a great concern for any industry, the…
“Within the health care arena, every legal matter comes with layers of regulatory and compliance issues that must be addressed.” We prominently state that reality on a website page at Daniels, Porco & Lusardi, LLP, where our attorneys collectively command many decades of on-point and proven health law experience that we apply on behalf of…
If you’re an actor within the health care industry having a legal problem relating to a transaction or contractual matter, you just need to ring up a business and commercial law attorney, right? Many individuals and business entities needing legal help — including medical industry participants — often assume that lawyers operating within a particular…
When a nonprofit discusses conflicts of interest, it usually focuses on the financial benefit a board member could receive that could also be detrimental to the nonprofit. While some examples of conflicts of interest are cut and dried, such as hiring an unqualified family member of one of the board members at a salary that…
It’s like a mushroom cloud of expanding worry and concerns. When it comes to data protection (that is, the firmly locked up and safely secured proprietary information regarding patients, billing and other confidential information that so centrally marks the medical industry), medical organizations in the United States are behind the ball. And that state of…
Commentators from across a broad gamut of the American medical industry sometimes note the collective view of actors within that realm that their chosen field — medical care and delivery — is under siege. Candidly, it is not hard to see why that opinion prevails. For starters, and as we point out on a relevant…
Imagine that you — like virtually all your peers — are a participant within the sprawling American medical industry who merely seeks to go about your job on a daily basis in a conscientious and ethical manner. You could be a doctor. Alternatively, you might be a nurse, pharmacist, administrator, coding specialist, insurance consultant, billing…