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A Transition Plan When Leaving the Active Practice
By Anne Sumpter Arney During the life of their active practice of medicine, physicians must meet obligations to a variety of stake holders, their patients, their partners, their employer, the payors and the regulators. In the transition to retirement or when you decide to leave the practice of medicine, physicians must wind down these relationships [...]
read more »The High Cost of Failing to Comply with HIPAA
By Anne S. Arney For the first years after the adoption of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, their enforcement appeared to be limited. At that time, it was difficult to predict the potential penalty for a violation. However, the terms of a settlement agreement (“Settlement Agreement”) between the U.S. Department of Health & Human [...]
read more »Healthcare Attorney Anne Sumpter Arney’s Physician’s Legal Update
Healthcare Attorney Anne Arney shares her insight on the industry. (more…)
Anne Sumpter Arney’s Physicians’ Legal Update
The High Cost of Failing to Comply with HIPAA For the first years after the adoption of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, their enforcement appeared to be limited. At that time, it was difficult to predict the potential penalty for a violation. Click here to read entire newsletter.
read more »Protecting Patient Privacy in Discarded Medical Records
Over the past few years, physician practices have implemented many policies and procedures to protect their patients’ privacy in an effort to comply with the Privacy and Security Rule under HIPAA. They have adopted compliance plans and procedures to protect their patients’ privacy in the transmission and storage and use of their protected health information (“PHI”). The need [...]
read more »Third Circuit Addresses Hospital Contract with Hospital-Based Physician Group
Appeared in the July 2009 Physicians Organizations Practice Group Newsletter reprinted courtesy of the American Health Lawyers Association. On January 21, 2009, in the case of United States ex rel. Kosenske v. Carlisle HMA, Inc.(1), the Third Circuit reversed the decision of the district court(2) which had dismissed an action under the False Claims Act(3) [...]
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