A recent decision by Maryland's intermediate appellate court sheds some light on a physician's hearing rights when a hospital terminates the doctor's medical staff privileges as the result of a "bu
Third-Party Payments: Did you know that the Department of Justice has settled charges brought against an Ohio health care insurer's practice of requiring hospitals not to charge lo
Earlier in 1998, the United States Supreme Court ruled, in a case involving dental services, that an individual who is HIV positive, but who has no symptoms of AIDS, is disabled and protected again
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued guidelines on October 21, 1998, relating to the voluntary disclosure of "health care fraud." These guidelin
At the request of a member of Maryland's General Assembly, the Maryland Attorney General recently ventured into the various State and federal laws that comprise the murky waters of health care frau
The New Jersey Supreme Court has recently held, contrary to popular belief, that a husband's individual retirement account (IRA) must be included as a resource for purposes of determining his wife'