By Daniels Porco & Lusardi, LLP | Published November 30, 2016 | Posted in Health Care Law | Tagged Tags: Health Care Law | Comments Off on Health Care Compliance Officer: Truly, A Headache-Inducing Job
Any person who takes a bit of time garnering even a rudimentary amount of knowledge concerning what is entailed in a health care compliance officer’s job, or what features at the workplace for that individual on a daily basis, might readily conjure up a bit of sympathy. Because here’s the bottom line regarding that occupation Read More
Read MoreWe have stressed in many prior blog posts the singular nature of the health care industry across many dimensions, including, centrally, the realm’s uppercase concern with this constant and ever-growing threat: attacks by hackers aimed at medical actors’ proprietary and most confidential data. Although that of course spells a great concern for any industry, the Read More
Read More“Within the health care arena, every legal matter comes with layers of regulatory and compliance issues that must be addressed.” We prominently state that reality on a website page at Daniels, Porco & Lusardi, LLP, where our attorneys collectively command many decades of on-point and proven health law experience that we apply on behalf of Read More
Read MoreIf you’re an actor within the health care industry having a legal problem relating to a transaction or contractual matter, you just need to ring up a business and commercial law attorney, right? Many individuals and business entities needing legal help — including medical industry participants — often assume that lawyers operating within a particular Read More
Read MoreWhen a nonprofit discusses conflicts of interest, it usually focuses on the financial benefit a board member could receive that could also be detrimental to the nonprofit. While some examples of conflicts of interest are cut and dried, such as hiring an unqualified family member of one of the board members at a salary that Read More
Read MoreIt’s like a mushroom cloud of expanding worry and concerns. When it comes to data protection (that is, the firmly locked up and safely secured proprietary information regarding patients, billing and other confidential information that so centrally marks the medical industry), medical organizations in the United States are behind the ball. And that state of Read More
Read MoreCommentators from across a broad gamut of the American medical industry sometimes note the collective view of actors within that realm that their chosen field — medical care and delivery — is under siege. Candidly, it is not hard to see why that opinion prevails. For starters, and as we point out on a relevant Read More
Read MoreImagine that you — like virtually all your peers — are a participant within the sprawling American medical industry who merely seeks to go about your job on a daily basis in a conscientious and ethical manner. You could be a doctor. Alternatively, you might be a nurse, pharmacist, administrator, coding specialist, insurance consultant, billing Read More
Read MoreIt hardly equates to a news event these days to note that health care costs are a material concern to scores of millions of people across the country, including high numbers of New York residents. Indeed, polls, surveys, hard empirical evidence, anecdotal musings and virtually all other information sources indicate that care-cost concerns are an Read More
Read MoreIn our previous post, we started discussing how complaints alleging misconduct by licensed physicians are managed by the New York State Health Department’s Office of Professional Medical Conduct and the Board of Professional Medical Conduct. Our reason in doing this was to help physicians, who have invested so much time, money and energy into not Read More
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