Doctor-owned medical facilities — chiefly hospitals — are bad for consumers and the public health. No, wait a minute, they’re a positive development that materially promotes a salutary bottom line in a truly broad-based way. Those polar-opposite views are the core bullet points in any debate focusing upon close physician involvement in an ownership capacity…
Opportunities, yes. And challenges across all dimensions, too, with related management and liability concerns — a reality that is simply a commonplace for American medical actors across all spheres. Any individual in New York or elsewhere who is even remotely connected with the medical industry in any capacity flatly knows the unrelenting bureaucratic and regulatory…
It really never stops, and that implacable reality becomes firmly cemented for any actor within the medical field the instant that he or she begins training for an ultimate position as a doctor, pharmacist, lab technician, therapist, facility administrator or other role in the industry. “It” is this: the unrelenting scrutiny that is focused on…
A variety of concerns can arise related to the health care industry and health care law such as the multitude of technical and complex concerns associated with regulatory and compliance issues in the health care industry. It is important to have protections when being questioned concerning health care law compliance, as well as to have…
As we duly note on a health law-related page of our website at the proven New York law firm of Daniels, Porco & Lusardi, LLP, the American health care industry is replete with “layers of regulatory and compliance issues that must be addressed.” Everyone who is involved at all with the industry — and that…
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…
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…