Beyond the Bylaws: The Medical Staff Show - Need to Know: How to Manage Medical Staff Confidentiality and Privilege Protections
What's the Tea in L&E? Can You Share An Employee's Medical Info?
Healthcare Document Retention
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 190: Healthcare Tech and Human Resources with Shannon Frazier, HR Executive Director at Lenovo
The Chartwell Chronicles: Occupational Exposure Claims
Proof in Trial: Appellate Edition: Integra Med Analytics LLC et al. v. Providence Health & Services et al.
Hospice Audit Series | Painting the Picture: How to Advocate for Clinical Hospice Eligibility in the Audit Appeal Process
2022 Resolutions: What Healthcare Practices Need To Tackle In the New Year
Podcast: Are Vaccine Passports the Key to Reopening? - Diagnosing Health Care
Compliance Perspective: What's New in Healthcare Privacy
Workers' Compensation Academy: The Smoking Gun: Importance of Investigation in Insurance & Workers’ Compensation
From NC State to Changing the State of Health Information Networks, with Medicom Technologies’ Malcolm Benitz
Protecting Patient Medical Records
Exploring Digitization of Health and Medical Data and Records Part Two
Patient Records Requests: What You Need to Know
Technology in Healthcare
Bicycling offers an eco-friendly, healthy way to travel through New Jersey’s scenic roads, but even the most cautious riders can be victims of serious accidents. When vehicles weighing thousands of pounds collide with...more
Collecting evidence in litigation is critical to building a strong case, but it can be tricky – especially when opposing counsel raises objections. When subpoenaing records from a third-party witness, disputes often arise...more
If you have a mass tort lawsuit, proving your injuries (and their costs) will be essential for recovering the financial compensation you deserve. As a result, documenting your injuries is extremely important, and while your...more
While record retrieval may sound like a straightforward task, legal professionals know it’s a complex, time-consuming process involving multiple entities, layers of rules and regulations, and security concerns (which...more
Record retrieval is an integral part of any legal case, giving attorneys access to accurate and up-to-date information on which to base their arguments. Preparing records for a case or legal matter requires carefully...more
Cases that touch on medical conditions and injuries require proving causality and calculating degrees of responsibility and compensation, often amidst a convoluted mix of events, timelines, treatments, comorbidities, and...more
Medical record retrieval is critical to a wide variety of legal disputes. These include cases directly about healthcare-related concerns alongside others that could depend on facts proven through the types of medical records...more
Retrieving medical records for legal matters can be tricky—unless you know exactly what to request, you could end up with a scattered pile of partial files excerpted according to the convenience and varying default processes...more
Filing a personal injury claim involves much more than filing the complaint in court. Much of the work lies in the preparation of your claim. The steps below can help you strengthen your case and avoid pitfalls that might...more
Being in a car accident can be a traumatic experience, particularly if there are serious personal injuries and/or significant damage to your car. Understanding the legal process in Florida is imperative to knowing your rights...more
A medical record is a documented account of an individual’s medical history, which can be information that can make or break certain legal cases. Most individuals will have unique medical information from multiple providers...more
A negligent surgeon, auto accident, personal injury, bar fight—many legal cases require requesting, analyzing, and organizing medical records. Whether you’re representing the plaintiff or the defendant, you’ll want to reduce...more
Some documents you collect during discovery and litigation preparation are straightforward—like deeds, trial transcripts, or insurance policies. Medical records, on the other hand, are not always as simple. From tracking...more
A legal case that involves any type of injury, illness, or healthcare means accessing medical records, either for your client or the opposition. Regardless of whether you use them for direct evidence or background...more
Key Points: Choice of examining physician can make or break a case. The credibility of the petitioner should be assessed early in investigation. Thorough investigations should be completed in any disputed claims....more
The Pennsylvania Department of Health has announced “Amendments to Charge for Medical Records”. ...more
In Kaviani v. Reliance Std. Life Ins. Co., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 3006 (11th Cir. Jan. 31, 2020), the Eleventh Circuit held that an insurer had failed to give sufficient credence to a claimant's self-reports of pain and...more
All hospice providers routinely should assess risk exposure under the False Claims Act — now with the benefit of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit’s long-awaited decision in United States v. AseraCare Inc. ...more
Post-accident video surveillance, social media canvassing, medical record canvassing, and public record document searches are great ways to aggressively defend a claim. These surveillance methods can help establish an...more
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, applying de novo review due to California’s discretionary clause ban, ruled that an employee of Apple, Inc. was not entitled to long-term disability benefits...more
A recent holding of the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland is of significance to companies defending personal injury lawsuits—particularly those where the nature or extent of a plaintiff’s alleged injuries is in dispute. In...more
In Cadle v. GEICO Ins. Co., Case No. 15-11283 (11th Cir. Sept. 30, 2016), the Eleventh Circuit held that GEICO had not acted in bad faith when it failed to settle a claim after the insured did not provide any evidence of...more
On Friday, September 30, 2016, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal affirmed a renewed motion for judgment as a matter of law that had been granted by the Middle District Court of Florida in a uninsured/underinsured motorist...more
Doctors must educate themselves and particularly their staff on the legal obligations to protect the confidentiality of medical records and how to properly respond to subpoenas and requests for patients’ health information....more