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…
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…
In our previous post, we started discussing how complaints alleging misconduct by licensed physicians are managed by the New York State Health Department’s Office of Professional Medical Conduct and the Board of Professional Medical Conduct. Our reason in doing this was to help physicians, who have invested so much time, money and energy into not…
Those people who make the decision to become a physician know from the outset that it won’t be an easy endeavor, as the process requires a substantial investment of time, money and energy. Nevertheless, all this hard work ultimately pays off once they have their medical license, as they are free to start caring for…
Regulators who administer and police medical payment programs (most centrally, Medicare) often — in fact, routinely — speak of the great challenges they confront in identifying and preventing provider-related fraud, as well as punishing transgressors who engage in fraudulent billings and other unlawful activities. Often, their complaints and diatribes target the sheer size of government…