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Legal Update

Physician compensation and managing referral relationships are 2 of the biggest time-consumers in the daily duties of many practice managers, and violations of the compliance regulations that govern them can be costly to a practice's bottom line. Read More ›

Recent media co­v­­er­age of the de­-bate surrounding an increased federal minimum wage as well as increased “salary basis” test to determine exempt status has drawn employers’ attention. Read More ›

Practicing medicine is no long­er exclusively char­­acterized as providing patient care. A physician is now re­-quired to be a skilled clinician, a marketing guru, an entrepre­neur, an ac­countant, and a legal savant, given the level of financial hurdles and oversight that are required to run a successful practice today. With the advent of digital media marketing, a physician must also now add “web designer” to his or her skill set. Read More ›

As medical practices planned for International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 and the im-­plementation of new diagnostic codes on October 1, 2014, practice administrators took steps to ensure that physicians and staff would be prepared. With the clock ticking down, staff had been signing up for training seminars, bringing experts onsite, and allowing extra coding time in the schedule, all to be sure that new codes would be entered accurately into patient claims beginning October 1. Read More ›

Practicing medicine is no longer exclusively characterized as providing patient care. A physician is now required to be a skilled clinician, a marketing guru, an entrepreneur, an accountant, and a legal savant, given the level of financial hurdles and oversight that is required to run a successful practice today. Read More ›

It should be no surprise to read that medical practices have an obligation to maintain protected health information in certain ways, and to only use and disclose such protected health information as authorized by the patient or otherwise by law. Such requirements are set forth under the Privacy Rule. Read More ›