News & Updates on Legal, Policy, & Business Issues Facing the Health Care Industry in Iowa
The October 23, 2014 post addresses the proposed rule’s requirement for disclosures and functionality of telemedicine services and other provisions of the proposed rule that may be less the responsibility of physicians who use telemedicine and more the responsibilities of entities that purchase, offer and maintain telemedicine equipment and services.
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C.M.S. has issued a short statement identifying that the new ICD-10 start date is October 1, 2015. According to C.M.S., it expects HHS “to release an informational rule in the near future that will include a new compliance date that would require the use of ICD-10 beginning Oct. 1, 2015.” Until then, HIPAA-covered entities…
We look at Buy-In and Professional Liability Insurance provisions in this fourth part in the Physician Contracting 101 series. A Physician Employee Contract often includes a provision for a “Buy-In” of the practice, and sometimes of a building, plus a Professional Liability Insurance provision. Physicians considering employment with a hospital or a physicians’ group will…
Do you ever get to a point and wonder where the time has gone?
As I sit here writing this post, I am having one of those moments. I cannot believe the Iowa Medical Society (IMS) annual meeting was the weekend of April 12 and 13 (over a week and a half ago). Many great…