Articles by Topic

E-Health & Electronic Medical Records Articles

•  “Enhancing Your Medical Practice with Telehealth Services and Technology”, Chesapeake Physician, January/February 2016
• “Electronic Medical Records: Is It Time for a Paper-Less Medical Practice?”
• “Cybermedicine: Pitfalls and Promises of Internet Health Care”
• “Prying Eyes: Protecting Your Personal Health Information”, Fibromyalgia Frontiers • National Fibromyalgia Partnership, Inc. • www.fmpartnership.org
• “A Virtual Law Firm”, Maryland Bar Journal, The Maryland State Bar Association.

HIPAA & Compliance Articles

•  “Enhancing Your Medical Practice with Telehealth Services and Technology”, Chesapeake Physician, January/February 2016
• “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”

Professional Website & Email Articles

• “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

•  “Enhancing Your Medical Practice with Telehealth Services and Technology”, Chesapeake Physician, January/February 2016
• “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 & Abuse, OSHA and 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”

Patients 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