by admin | Jan 1, 2025 | Healthcare Law Updates, Professional Insurance Premiums
To: ALL INTERESTED PARTIES On December 21, 2024, Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed the ‘Grieving Families Act.’ This is the third time the Governor has rejected this piece of legislation. The bill would have, among other things allowed family members who lost loved ones...
by admin | Jul 1, 2024 | Healthcare Law Updates, Professional Insurance Premiums
July, 2024 To: ALL INTERESTED PARTIES The issue was recently presented to our office, – may an “in-network,” (INN), physician establish a new and separate practice in order to bill a carrier as an “out-of-network,” (ONN), entity? A physician presented the...
by admin | Jun 1, 2024 | Healthcare Law Updates, Professional Insurance Premiums
June 2024 To: ALL INTERESTED PHYSICIANS A recent event experienced by a client leads us to ask the following questions – Have you reviewed whether or not your maintain professional corporations or similar entities which you have not utalized for many years? If...
by admin | May 1, 2024 | Healthcare Law Updates, Medical License Defense, Medical License Restoration
May 2024 To: ALL INTERESTED PHYSICIANS We were at a meeting at New York Hospital some years ago and one of the physician participants mentioned that he had heard the phrase “health care provider” being used to describe a cardiologist colleague. The use of the...
by admin | Apr 1, 2024 | Healthcare Law Updates, Risk Management
April 2024 To: ALL INTERESTED PHYSICIANS It should not come as a surprise that last year’s Supreme Court ruling on abortion rights would quickly echo in the federal court system. A matter brought in the Northern District Federal Court is an example of this “echoing”...
by admin | Mar 1, 2024 | Healthcare Law Updates, Medical License Defense, Medical License Restoration
March 2024 To: ALL INTERESTED PHYSICIANS We have written before concerning the activities of physicians when being contacted by the Office of Professional Medical Discipline (OPMC) but predicated by the numbers of calls we receive from individuals it seems appropriate...
