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New York State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker recently observed that government needs businesses to help fix the nation’s health care system. While saying that one’s health depends more on social circumstances, behavior, exercise and diet, Zucker sounded like another unfunded ...

Physicians need to begin planning now for the impact of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (“MACRA”) which mandates various changes to the Medicare clinician payment system. In addition to eliminating SGR, the two primary components of this law ...

The good news is that this author believes the future is bright for physician practices if they know how to structure their business operations and have a vision for participating in new payment methodologies. The bad news is that many ...

As the initial article in this series, it is important that physicians understand the basic rules that govern their existence. The Federal Stark law prohibits a physician from making a referral to an entity for the furnishing of certain designated ...

We’ve been writing for and about attorneys at Missouri Lawyers Weekly for 30 years. And among the thousands of articles we’ve written, many have met at the intersection of law and medicine. That space where the Hippocratic overlaps the Lawyers’ ...