Tax-exempt hospitals appear to be swinging back from the days of experimenting with for profit ventures that assumed managed care risk or operated physician practices.
In May of 1999, Maryland's highest court addressed two issues of interest to the medical community - sexual harassment and the definition of the practice of medicine.
Health care providers should take notice of the expanding role of State Attorneys General in the internal corporate activities of nonprofit health care entities.
Maryland's hospital rate-setting commission, the Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC), has traditionally allowed third-party payors to pay Maryland hospitals 4% less than the hospitals' a
Health Lawyers Acquitted: Did you know that two health care attorneys were acquitted of criminal charges that they allegedly participated in an anti-kickback violation involving a
Gordon Feinblatt's recent physician seminar attracted the press, and the following is a reprint of the resulting article that ran in several local newspapers.
Can physicians increase their bargaining power in negotiations with managed care plans (MCPs)? One way is for physicians collectively to negotiate their contracts with MCPs.
1. In March, the Health Care Access and Cost Commission (HCACC) released its annual report on health care expenditures and utilization based on 1997 data.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of federal regulators with respect to graduate medical expenses. The Court's 6-3 decision in Regions Hospital v.
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
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
Home Health Compliance. Did you know that the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services has issued a model voluntary compliance plan directed at ho
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'
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 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
