What's New In Stark II?

Health care professionals around the country have been patiently waiting for almost three years for the newest refinements to the Stark law.

Research and PHI: Let Me Count The Ways

The HIPAA privacy regulations were not intended to impede medical research.

Q & A on Maryland Magnets

Doctors often need to refer their patients for diagnostic tests, such as x-rays, magnetic resonance imaging, known as MRIs or magnets, or computed tomography, know as CTs, before the doctor recomme

Maryland Regulatory News Fall 2004

In May, Commissioner Samuel J.

HMOs Shield From State Malpractice Suits

This Summer, the U.S. Supreme Court held, in Aetna Health Inc. v.

Did You Know? Fall 2004

Retirement Assets Protected: Did you know that creditors cannot reach the qualified retirement plan assets of a solo practitioner?

Document Retention Policies

One of the most important functions computers perform for modern day business is the storage of information, and virtually every organization or company regardless of its size uses computers to con

Stacked Payee Checks are payable to any one of the Named Payees

It is now clear that, under Maryland law, checks drawn to more than one payee, listed in stacked format, with no grammatical connector, punctuation, or symbol indicating their relationship, are pro

No Private Right of Action for (Some) Violations of the Maryland Mortgage Lender Laws

Thrasher v. Homecomings Financial Network, Inc., 154 Md. App 77, 838 A.2d 392, cert. denied 380 Md. 619, 846 A.2d 402 (2003)

Don't Respond to a Subpoena for Financial Records Until It Is Due

Bond v. Slavin et al., 2004 Md. App. LEXIS 96 (filed June 18, 2004)