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Ben Laufer obtained a defense verdict for a skilled nursing facility in the Circuit Court for Allegany County, Maryland. The Plaintiffs brought a wrongful death claim and survival action against the Defendants, a skilled nursing facility, the attending physician, and...

Picture this... It is Friday afternoon, after a long weekend, and you are looking forward to some rest and relaxation. As you leave your office for the day, you are handed a packet of papers and asked to confirm your name. While looking through the packet, you...

Cyber attacks are on the rise.  Hacking is becoming more sophisticated, more traumatic, and more personal. DOWNLOAD ARTICLE

Informal Physician-to-Physician consults – also known as “curbside,” “hallway” or “elevator” consults – are an integral part of the practice of medicine.  In One peer-reviewed survey study, 70.4% of primary care Physicians and 87.5% of subspecialists reported participating in at least one curbside consultation during the previous week.  Primary care Physicians reported obtaining an average of 3.2 curbside consults, and subspecialists reported receiving an average of 3.6 requests for curbside consults during the prior week.  A prospective one-year study in a large teaching hospital found that curbside consults comprised 17% of the clinical work value of the infectious diseases services.

Physicians and business owners were never more in need of comprehensive business continuity planning than in 2020. We made it through, and we learned a great deal about business adaptation and practice change. The questions facing us now are: “Where do we go from here...

The technical advances of communication mean that the relationship between physician and patient is no longer limited to the traditional, clinical, face-to-face setting. DOWNLOAD DOCUMENT

An all-too-familiar story: A practice is handed a bill in the amount of four million dollars after an audit by a Medicare contractor alleging overpayments. The practice challenged the audit and proved that the contractor made a mistake interpreting medical coding. The...

The concern over the “difficult” or disruptive Doctor has not caught just the attention of the New York Times but also the AMA and JCAHO as well as a host of other medical societies and authors. A number of problem areas and suggested solutions have been proposed....

Physicians should be aware that this new statute has serious limitations and its interpretation by the courts is, as yet, unknown and could be further limiting. In that regard, caution is paramount. However, having said that, physicians cannot ignore the opportunity...