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Understanding When Business Associate Agreements Are Necessary Can Avoid Costly and Embarrassing Enforcement Actions

…to have a HIPAA-compliant form of business associate agreement (BAA), but also to train staff to identify and carefully analyze when a BAA is required. In this recent case, a…

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2018 Limits for Benefit Plans

Reading Time: < 1 minute Click here to download a quick-reference card of these 2018 limits for benefit plans.   We can provide valuable, preventive advice that enhances your bottom…

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What Do You Know About Licensing Board Investigations?

…about these boards. And a Word About Complaints Most complaints to boards come from patients or their families. Most of the remainder come from health care professionals. The lesson here…

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Disruptive Physicians

…lists general competencies expected of physicians undergoing the credentialing and privileging process and adds two behavior-relevant competencies: Interpersonal and Communication Skills, and Professionalism. (See Introduction to Standard MS.06.01.03.) The JC…

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Tips for Successful Medical Staff Hearings

…the medical executive committee (MEC) takes that adversely affect the hearing almost always happen before the hearing begins. Physicians often come out better at a hearing than the MEC had…

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Child Abuse/Neglect Reporting: Issues and Controversies

…horribly compromised. A teenage girl who said her father raped her and then retracted the allegation comes to mind. In short, cause to suspect is less compelling information than the…

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Who’s Going Under the Bus? Federal Policy on Individual Responsibility for Corporate Wrongdoing

…any credit for cooperation… the company must completely disclose to the Department [of Justice] all relevant facts about individual misconduct. Companies cannot pick and choose.” In some other key items,…

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Overview of the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act

…years of Congressional debate and deadlock over amendments to the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), commonly referred to as the Superfund law. 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et…

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Literally, A Million Dollar Question

Reading Time: 2 minutes The debate over the benefits and risks associated with hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), a method of drilling for natural gas, continues to rage in North Carolina. Research…

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Raleigh’s New UDO Takes Effect September 1 – What Does It Mean for Development?

…building types: detached house, attached house, townhouse, apartment, general building, mixed use building, civic building and open lot. In mixed use districts, the zoning for a particular property is comprised…