Guiding your family through the upheaval and high emotions of a stressful personal episode requires diplomacy and a deft touch. If your health is failing and your family members are left to handle things themselves, you can still provide a reassuring presence—by planning with advance care directives and other estate tools. Getting everyone in the…
Mobile diagnostic units provide benefits for both referring physicians and their patients. They allow referring physicians to provide diagnostic services to their patients in the convenience of their own office, thereby saving their patients the trouble of traveling to another location for diagnostic tests. A common arrangement with respect to mobile diagnostic units is the following: The reading physician…
The days of doctors in individual practice are largely gone. As recently as the 1970s, it was not unusual to find health care providers in their own offices. Since then, the country has seen seismic shifts in the business model for how medical treatment is delivered. And the changes show little sign of letting up….
Would-be controls sought to be applied to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs underscore the growing degree of regulatory scrutiny being faced by medical actors across the country. As we have noted in some past blog posts, that scrutiny is always intense, with the medical realm being perhaps the most closely overseen industry in the…
The so-called “Internet of things” (IoT) has been an oft-used phrase in media reports and stories over the past several years. For readers of our New York health care blog at Daniels, Porco & Lusardi, LLP, who might not know much about that concept, it quite simply refers to a device that can be connected…
Health care facilities should be concerned about regulatory compliance matters for the sake of their future business operations. If violations are found, a facility might lose its accreditation and/or right to lawfully operate. Yet according to a recent article, passing an inspection from a private health care accreditor may not necessarily put a facility in…
A doctor who makes it a point to speak to medical student groups and at health-care forums says that she always seeks to underscore for her audience that, “Wow, this is how it happens.” It happens like this for doctors with growing medical practices. Diverse groups of people — termed a “parade of drug, device…
In the realm of federal oversight over marketplace drug approval, do officials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration act so cautiously that they dangerously slow up the process and materially delay the marketplace entrance of new drugs and medications that many consumers badly need? Or, conversely, do they signal approval in precipitous fashion, so…
“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…
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…