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Hospitals Auto-Dialed Calls

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Best Practices to Mitigate Illegal Robocalls to Hospitals and Health Facilities

Illegal robocalls are more than annoying, they often involve fraudulent schemes. These calls can be particularly pernicious when made to hospitals or health facilities. Hospitals face a wide range of illegal robocalls,...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

COVID-19: Hospitals and Health Care Providers Included in New Guidance on the Emergency Purpose Exception to the Telephone...

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued a Declaratory Ruling providing guidance (Guidance) on the implementation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) as COVID-19 continues to necessitate...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act in the Healthcare Industry

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As healthcare companies increasingly rely on mobile delivery platforms and other technologies to communicate with patients about appointments, billing and other issues related to their healthcare management, the potential for...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

TCPA Violations Claimed Against Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego

Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego (Rady) was hit with a proposed class action in California federal court this week for alleged violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) for autodialed debt-collection calls...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms "Prior Express Consent" in Health Care Collections Case

Baisden v. Credit Adjustments, Inc., No. 15-3411, 2016 WL 561735 (6th Cir. Feb. 12, 2016) - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that two hospital patients consented to a debt collection agency's...more

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Debt Collector for Affiliated Physician Group Can Rely on Patient Contact Consent Obtained by Hospital

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Careful drafting of consent and information release provisions can ensure that providers and affiliated physicians and their debt collectors can contact patient cell phones using automatic telephone dialing systems or...more

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