Tag: Arizona healthcare law
The Key Federal Statutes Regulating Doctors
Healthcare regulations seem to grow more complex with every passing year. Doctors are expected to know, and comply with, an alphabet soup of federal statutes and associated regulations governing everything from employment to patient privacy to personal finances, and everything in between. In order to simplify matters, we have prepared…
Concierge Medicine: The Return of the House Call
Many physicians, frustrated by the bureaucracy of modern medical practice, the financial pressure to shorten appointments and limit face time with patients, and the delays and hassle of dealing with health insurers for reimbursement, are increasingly turning to concierge medical practices as an alternative. Under this business model, patients pay…
Navigating the Regulatory Environment for Doctors Part 5 – HIPAA Security and Breach Notification
In our last post we started our discussion of HIPAA, the federal law governing patient privacy, with a look at HIPAA’s Privacy Rule. HIPAA is intended to impose nationwide standards on doctors in protecting patient privacy and pre-empts, or supersedes, any conflicting state laws. Therefore, Arizona’s patient privacy laws largely…
Penalties for Violating the Stark Law
In our previous posts, we looked at the underlying purpose behind the Stark law against doctor self-referrals, the scope of the Stark law, and the ways in which the Stark law can be violated. This final post in the series will look at what happens if you run afoul of…
The Scope of the Stark Law’s Prohibitions
In our previous post, we examined the origins and rationale underlying the Stark Law’s prohibition against physician self-referral. In this post, we look at exactly what the Stark Law prohibits.