Legal Scrubs

44. Two Key Points to Negotiate in a Physician Employment Agreement

43. Letters of Intent in the Sale of Medical Practices

42. How Medical Practices Should (and Should Not) Respond to Negative Online Patient Reviews

41. Telemedicine in Tennessee

The new Final Stark Rule's requirement that group practices cease using split pooling of the group's Designated Health Services on a service by service methodology becomes effective on January 1, 2022. That means that group practices have less than six months to review their compensation methodology with respect to DHS and revise their profit split, if need be. Today's episode discusses the new Final Stark Rule and how group medical practices can comply with it by making sure their profit sharing of DHS is done either on a fully aggregated methodology or by pods of physicians with at least 5 physicians per pod.

40. Countdown to Compliance with the New Final Stark Rule

39. Asset Purchase vs. Stock Purchase for Medical Practices

New changes to the Stark Law's definition of a "group practice" go into effect in January 2022. Of particular importance to independent group medical practices is a clarification that spells the end of split pooling on profits from in-office ancillary services. Listen to today's episode of Legal Scrubs to learn more and prepare so that your group practice is in compliance when the changes go into effect.

Episode 38 - The New Stark Law Changes and the End of Split Pooling

Episode 37 - Why Every Medical Practice Needs a Strong Employee Policy Manual. Yesterday!

Episode 36 - Tennessee Physicians and Non-Competes

Episode 35 - Selling a Dental Practice and What to Think About in Allocating the Purchase Price to Different Assets for Tax Savings

Episode 34 - Why an LLC that Elects S Corporation Status Might Be the Right Choice of Entity for Your Healthcare Practice

HIPAA and Recent Developments

Season 3, Episode 1 - Physicians in Group Practices Need to Review their Operating Agreements Now

Season 2, Episode 22 - The Health and Human Services OIG Issues a New Fraud Alert on Speaker Programs

Season 2, Episode 21 - Doctors Must Understand their HIPAA Obligations to Provide Copies of Medical Records to Patients upon their Request

Doctors, dentists, and nurses are great at providing healthcare services to their patients--but the modern delivery of healthcare is a business. Legal Scrubs helps healthcare professionals and solo and small healthcare practices be better at the business side of healthcare (and stay legally compliant at the same time).

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