by Ralph Levy, Of Counsel Nashville Office 615.620.1733 rlevy@dickinsonwright.com Group medical and dental practices often look to expand their practices by hiring additional professionals, typically those with less experience than the equity owners of the practice group. Invariably, both the group practice and the potential new hire will insist on an employment agreement …
IRS Issues New Guidelines for Qualified Management Contracts for Facilities Financed with Tax Exempt Bonds
By: Craig Hammond Health care providers with facilities financed with tax exempt bonds need to be aware of recent changes to the IRS rules for qualified management contracts. On August 22, 2016, the IRS issued Rev. Proc. 2016-44 which replaced the safe harbors for management contracts previously set forth in Rev. Proc. 97-13 with new …
Expansion of Practice Autonomy of Physician Assistants Summary
This blog summarizes the original article written by Brian Fleetham. For more information, please read the entire article that will be published in mid-February for the Kent County Medical Society quarterly newsletter, Winter 2017. As part of a flurry of activity at the end of 2016, Public Act 379 was enacted by the Michigan legislature …
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Affordable Care Act Repeal
By: Rose Willis Recently the Wall Street Journal stated the New England Journal of Medicine published an op-ed by President Obama in which he critiqued the Republicans’ strategy to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and then replace it at a future date. Obama stated, “This approach of ‘repeal first and replace later’ is, simply put, …
Nationwide Injunction Halts Department of Labor’s Overtime Expansion
By Timothy M. Cary New overtime regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act set to go into effect on December 1, 2016, have been halted by a federal court in Texas. In State of Nevada v. U.S. Department of Labor, the court granted a preliminary injunction in favor of a group of twenty-one states who …
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Renewed Perils from “Zeroing Out” a Corporation at Year-End
By Ralph Levy, Jr. and Brian Fleetham Physicians who are involved in the financial management of their practices are all too familiar with the year-end scramble to “zero out” the corporation’s profits. Under this technique, a physician practice that is structured as a “C” corporation will, after paying all of its year-end expenses, distribute its …
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Restrictions on Fees Permitted Under HIPAA for Copies of Medical Records
By Timothy Cary When health care providers provide copies of medical records to an individual patient or to third parties at the direction of that individual patient, they are permitted under HIPAA to recover “a reasonable, cost-based fee.” Health care providers have generally determined this fee by relying on a schedule established by state statute, …
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Dickinson Wright’s Behavioral Health Care Group Writes Book for AHLA
Dickinson Wright Attorneys Greg Moore, Russell Kolsrud, Peter Domas, Serene Zeni, and Alexandra Hall wrote and edited The Fundamentals of Behavioral Health Care Law, which is now available through the American Health Lawyers Association. With more than 50 years of combined experience, Dickinson Wright’s Behavioral Health Care lawyers continue to guide their clients through the …
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What Physician Practices and Other Healthcare Providers Need to Know About the Posting and Grievance Obligations Set Forth in the Section 1557 Final Rule
By Rose Willis Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability. Recently, the Federal Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued a Final Rule clarifying existing nondiscrimination requirements and setting forth new standards implementing Section 1557 (the “Final Rule”). Among other things, the …
The Alphabet Soup of Healthcare: Let’s Dig In!
Join Dickinson Wright’s international healthcare team of attorneys for “The Alphabet Soup of Healthcare: Let’s Dig In!” webinar on Wednesday, September 28, 2016 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. This comprehensive half-day webinar will cover topics such as cybersecurity, behavioral health, compliance, telemedicine, strategic alliances and compensation structures. Topics that will be discussed include: Humans: …
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