Hospitals and medical clinics are unique given the amount of personal information stored in their databanks. Despite the many technological...Read More »
Handling requests for information from law enforcement can throw staff for a loop. Most staff are aware of their organization’s policies and the...Read More »
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires covered entities (CE) to protect and confidentially handle patients’...Read More »
Finding that external peer review reports are not protected from disclosure by the state constitution, the Florida Supreme Court (the “Court”)...Read More »
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently revoked the tax-exempt status of a general acute care hospital. Although most of the hospital’s...Read More »
Most credentialing work is considered a peer review activity performed by the medical staff and governing board. As a result, state laws generally grant some amount of peer review protection to those parts of a particular credentials file that are acted upon by medical staff committees or the...
It’s time for physicians to recognize the inevitable and decide what role we will play in the brave new world of single payer. We simply can no...Read More »
