The equipment dealer industry has seen significant consolidation over the last several years and the pace is not slowing as dealers and manufacturers are pursuing ever larger dealer organizations and the resulting benefits that can be achieved if growth is […]
A jury recently reached a $14.75 Million verdict in Florida in a case between twoclinical laboratory companies arguing over sales and marketing practices that were potential violations of various state and federal laws. The lessons that follow are important for […]
Entities covered under the HIPAA Privacy Rules face very high penalties for failing to properly handle protected health information (PHI) as one Indiana non-profit health care system learned to the tune of $800,000. If you handle PHI there is a […]
Your dealership just completed a merger. You did everything by the book: took your time getting to know the other organization, set up a new organization, agreed to a fair value and established how the new ownership group would work […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General(OIG) recently issued a Special Fraud Alert based on a concern that laboratory payments to referring physicians and physician group practices for blood specimen collection, processing, and packaging, and […]
In July 2013 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)issued a final regulation allowing 340B covered entities (public safety-net health providers) to purchase orphan drugs at the discounted 340B prices even when the drugs aren’t used to treat […]
Completing a dealer transfer is hard work and often compressed into a short amount of time. For those involved in a merger, you might think of it as planning for a wedding … a lot of work culminating in a […]
Catherine Nazari, an unsatisfied plastic surgery patient, voiced her dissatisfaction with her physician Jean Loftus online. The comments were critical of Dr. Loftus, so Loftus filed suit for defamation and tortious interference.
Unfortunately for the physician, and an important lesson for […]