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HIPAA Consent Form: An Essential Tool in Preserving Patient Privacy

Compliancy Group

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance patient consent form is essential for properly using and disclosing protected health information (PHI). Failure to get informed consent can have dire consequences for your organization.

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Introduction to Telebehavioral Health

AIHC

This article is not intended as legal or consulting advice. If your practice is currently using a telebehavioral health approach for patient treatment, or if you organization is considering implementing this approach, we hope this article will give some food-for-thought on the topic.

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Update on No Surprises Act 2022

AIHC

This article is a follow up to the August 17, 2021, Sending “Surprise” Medical Bills to Patients? Contact your risk attorney through your malpractice insurance company for guidance which is obtained through no additional cost (part of the service you get when paying the insurance premium). Identify eligible cases.

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Free Speech versus Public Health: The Role of Social Media (Part One)

Bill of Health

professional licensing, informed consent, malpractice liability, and fiduciary duties) while these guardrails run counter to the presumed equality of speakers outside of this relationship. Missouri , announced in June 2024, ultimately held that the plaintiffs did not establish Article III standing. Supreme Court reversed.

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The Dr. Oz Paradox

Bill of Health

Professionals within a professional relationship are subject to a variety of legal constraints, such as informed consent requirements or professional malpractice liability if things go wrong. For example, free speech is not a defense against a malpractice claim.

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Suing the Certifiers – A Dangerous Undertaking

Drug & Device Law

Apparently, a fraudulent foreign-trained “doctor” treated the plaintiffs, none of whom claimed malpractice or any physical injury whatsoever. Anyway, this fraudulent “doctor” allegedly “touched them without informed consent” and caused them “emotional distress. 23 in its current form.

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Guest Post – Curling Up With a Good Reasonable Alternative Design Opinion

Drug & Device Law

For instance, Plaintiffs relied on a medical journal article that compared the product at issue with the defendant’s own TVT product. She sued the gynecologist, not the surgeon who implanted the mesh, for failing to obtain informed consent for the implant. That’s right. Can she do that? Now go call your mother.