Frier Levitt Healthcare Newsletter

Welcome to Frier Levitt's Healthcare Newsletter. Here are articles about recent topics in Healthcare law.

For more information about these and other current events in healthcare, visit FrierLevitt.com
A basic principle of health care law is that medical decision-making must be based on the best interests of the patient and not the economic interests of the provider. This principle is reflected the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) – which makes it a federal crime to offer...
Quest Diagnostics (Quest) and LabCorp each reported in their respective 8-K filings with the Security and Exchange Commission that the companies had been notified by American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), a billing collections vendor, that between August 1, 2018 and...
The Office of the Inspector General for Health and Human Services (OIG) recently issued a Fraud Alert to the public identifying a fraud scheme involving genetic testing. To reduce fraud and abuse in federal health care programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, the OIG actively...
Frier Levitt, LLC, a national boutique healthcare law firm, announced today that Joel M. Greenberg, Esq., has joined the firm as a Partner. Mr. Greenberg has extensive experience assisting physicians, medical groups, dentists, and other health care providers address the numerous business...
PUBLICATIONS
If your practice is one of many jumping on the telemedicine train, your patients are lucky to have the electronic option of a clinician’s care. However, the convenience of offering clinical services electronically has its drawbacks. In fact, a recent case suggests the feds aren’t playing any games...
By Dr. Lawrence F. Kobak, DPM, Esq. as seen in
Podiatry Management 
A clinical practice guideline is a document that defines a standard of diagnosing care and treatment that is generally accepted and presumed followed by a group of healthcare providers. Radiologists might have a clinical practice guideline for diagnosing and treating breast cancers; so might oncologists...
The Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Company (MLMIC) was formed in 1975 as a mutual insurance company in response to the medical professional liability insurance crisis of the 1970’s. It quickly grew into the largest medical malpractice insurer in New York State...
VIDEO
On May 17, 2019, CMS announced a delay in its final national coverage determination for Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy. Using a patient’s own immune system to attack cancer cells,  CAR T-cell therapy has been getting more and more recognition  as the potential next step for oncology over the last year...
WEBINAR
Healthcare is one of the most highly regulated industries in the country. When physicians and practices receive document requests, audit notices, and overpayment demands, knowing what to expect and how to react can help save money, protect your professional license and avoid litigation. 

This webinar will take you through the process of the what to do when you or your practice receives a request or demand from a government agency or private payor. The webinar will help avoid common missteps and provide practical advice to minimize the impact on your business.

In this webinar, Guillermo J. Beades, Esq., Senior Counsel at boutique healthcare law firm Frier Levitt, LLC, discusses:

  • How to identify if a document request is problematic
  • Current audit trends with focus on the codes, modifiers and procedures that are high risk for triggering an audit
  • How to formulate an action plan to respond to audits and document demands
  • How physicians and practices can protect themselves and lower the risk of adverse audit findings
  • Identifying common pitfalls and how to avoid them

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