Recent Articles

“Prying Eyes: Protecting Your Personal Health Information”,
Fibromyalgia Frontiers • 2006 (Volume 15, Number 1) National Fibromyalgia Partnership, Inc. • www.fmpartnership.org

“A Virtual Law Firm",
Maryland Bar Journal, The Maryland State Bar Association, Sept./Oct. 2004

PRIOR ARTICLES BY TOPIC

HIPAA & Compliance Articles

• "A Focus on the HIPAA Privacy Regulations: Consent, Authorization and Business Associate Contract Provisions"
• "HIPAA Considerations for the Electronic Medical Record"
• "Medicare Compliance: A Practice Audit"
• "Medicare Compliance: What To Do If Your Practice is Audited"
• "Medicare Compliance Plans: A New Requirement"
• "The Government Expects You to Have a Medicare Compliance Plan in Place: Are You Ready?"  
• "The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996"

Informed Consent Articles

• "Informed Consent: A Physician's Legal, Personal and Professional Responsibility"
• "Clinical Trials: Informed Consent for Patients and Physicians"

E-HEALTH and ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS ARTICLES

• "Electronic Medical Records: Is It Time for a Paper-Less Medical Practice?"
• "Cybermedicine: Pitfalls and Promises of Internet Health Care"

PROFESSIONAL WEBSITE & EMAIL

• "Physician Websites and Email: Practice Enhancement or Liability"
• "The Virtual Practice of Medicine: Enhancement or Practice Liability"
• "Untangling the Risks and Benefits of Websites and Email"
• "Cyber-Medicine: Some Real Risks in Virtual Medicine"

PHYSICIAN PRACTICE ARTICLES

• "Employment Contracts: Issues Employers and Employees Should Consider"
• "Insurance: What You Need to Know about Appropriate Coverage"
• "Restrictive Covenants - Legal Enforceability"
• "Medicare + Choice Side Bar"
• "Legal Tips a the Start of Your Professional Career"  
• "Legal Documentation Guidelines: Are Your Medical Records a Legal Asset or a Liability?"
• "How to Form a Provider Network"
• "The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA): Can Podiatrists Continue to do Office Laboratory Tests?”
• "The Americans with Disabilities Act: Serious Legislation to Reduce Discrimination"
• "When the Smoke Clears - Comments on the American Health Security Act of 1993"
• "The New Patient Self Determination Act: How This Law will Affect the Maryland Physician"

MEDICAL RECORDS

• "Medical Records: Make them Your Asset Not a Legal Liability" "Legal Documentation Guidelines: Are Your Medical Records a Legal Asset or a Liability?"
• "Are Your Medical Records a Legal Asset or Liability? Legal Documentation Guidelines”

MANAGED CARE

• "Before You Sign ... Tools for Evaluating Managed Care Contracts"
• "MCO Contracts- Physicians Should Beware of Waiving Legal Rights"
• "Current Trends in Managed Care Contracts"
• "Managed Care Follows Medicare Once Again - This Time with Audits"
• "Beware of MCO Contracts that Waive Your Legal Rights"  
• “Practice Alert: New Managed Care Contract Clause Can Further Limit Your Legal Recourse”
• "PPO's - Should I Sign a Contract?"

FRAUD AND ABUSE, OSHA, ANTITRUST

• "Fraud and Abuse Update"
• "OSHA: It Hasn't Gone Away"
• "Antitrust Enforcement: Medical Practices Feel the Effects"
• "Practice Alert - Health Care Fraud and Abuse: Investigations Take on New Intensity"

PATIENT RIGHTS

• "Opting for a Living Will"

NURSING TOPICS

• “The Geriatric Preventative Health History Form,"
• "Are Your Medical Records a Legal Asset or Liability? Legal Documentation Guidelines”

ADDITIONAL PUBLISHED WORK IN PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS

• American Bar Association's The Health Lawyer
• The Journal of Nursing Law
• ASTRO News, American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) 
• APMA News, The American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA)
• The Maryland Medical Journal
• Health Information Compliance Insider
• Managed Care Contracting and Reimbursement
• MGMA News, Medical Group Manager Association
• The Professional Association of Health Care Office Management (PAHCOM)
• Medical Office Manager 
• The Medical Bulletin of D.C. and Northern Virginia
• Cardiology Insider
• OB-GYN Practice Management
• MGMA Maryland Medi-News
• Doctor Perspectives, Snyder, Cohn, Collyer & Hamilton, CPAs and Business Advisors