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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Do Your Medical Director Arrangements Meet the Top Five Best Practices?

All types of healthcare providers depend on medical directors to oversee clinical operations and consult with administrative leadership on facility, unit, or clinical service line plans and performance. Medical directors...more

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Top Takeaways | 2023 Physician Practice Management & ASC Symposium | Maximizing Managed Practice Value & Operations

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In this moderated session, a panel of senior executives and stakeholders with significant experience in optimizing physician practice management valuations discussed how managed practices can add substantial value by...more

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Relaxed Direct Physician Supervision Requirements During The COVID-19 Pandemic

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Shortly after the State of New York relaxed its direct physician supervision requirements in response to the rampant spread of Novel Coronavirus 2019 (“COVID-19”), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”)...more

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When Patient Care Needs and Employee FMLA Demands Conflict

A healthcare employer’s primary mission is to provide appropriate medical care and treatment to patients. In order to provide such care, healthcare companies rely on the steady and committed presence of competent, licensed...more

Dickinson Wright

Defend Trade Secrets Act Signed Into Law

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In an era of unprecedented integration and collaboration in the healthcare industry, providers, payors, contractors and patients are exchanging information at an ever expanding pace. This collaboration includes sharing best...more

Fisher Phillips

Risky Business: A Three-Step Plan For Addressing Harassment By Nonemployees

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Employers have long understood that they face potential liability when an employee is sexually harassed by another employee and they do nothing to prevent or fix the known problem. It is also true, but perhaps less well...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

PATIENT PRIVACY IN AN ERA OF SOCIAL MEDIA

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The rise of social media has introduced new opportunities and new legal challenges for companies in the health care industry. Attorneys Seth Northrop and Sharon Roberg-Perez discuss the legal issues faced by care providers,...more

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Obligations During the Ebola Crisis: Ethical and Practical Considerations

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Providers and health professionals face many challenges in the shifting sands of the Ebola response, including the extent of their duties to each other and their patients and their obligations under a myriad of laws,...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

California Attorney General Releases Breach Report with Key Findings and Recommendations for Retailers, Financial Institutions and...

California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris has released a “California Data Breach Report,” which presents a series of findings and recommendations based on a review of breaches reported to the Attorney General’s office in...more

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Ebola in Retail Establishments? How to Prepare

News sources recently reported that one of the Dallas nurses infected with the Ebola virus visited a retail establishment before boarding a plane from Cleveland to Dallas. Since then, retailers and customers have been...more

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OCR to Begin Phase 2 of HIPAA Audit Program

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will soon begin a second phase of audits (Phase 2 Audits) of compliance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)...more

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