The Maryland Self-Referral law prohibits health care providers, including physicians, from referring patients to a health care entity in which the referring provider has a financial interest.
During the last decade, California and a number of other states, including Maryland, have passed laws legalizing or otherwise protecting the use of marijuana for medical purposes.
Hospital's Failure to Inform Patients of Doctor's Prior Lawsuits: Did you know that a Michigan court recently ruled that the failure of a hospital to inform a patient of the patien
The federal Stark law prohibits physicians from referring patients to entities in which they have an ownership interest or with which they have a compensation relationship.
Health care providers, administrators and insurers often find themselves testifying before regulatory bodies or otherwise being questioned under oath, for example, in a deposition.
The 2005 Maryland General Assembly Session turned out to be a very busy, a very reactive and a very creative Session in regard to health care, with several truly novel laws being enacted.
In 1999, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the United States Department of Health and Human Services announced that "gainsharing" arrangements are generally against the law.
In 2004, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice (the Agencies) issued their joint report titled "Improving Health Care: A Dose of Competition." The report is the result of 27 da