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• Baylor Proceedings: Who is an expert? A quick primer on an envasive concept by Russ Thornton
• DBA Headnotes: Insuring Practice Vitality - Managing Dr. Buy-Ins by Laura James
• Identity Theft - Red Flag Rules
• Texas Supreme Court Updates
• OIG Issues 2 New Opinions
• Prompt Payment Isn't a Reality for Doctors
• Stan Thiebaud delivered a speech at the Advanced Medical Malpractice Seminar in San Antonio on March 18, 2010
• Arrests made by OIG for health care fraud in Physical Therapy
• Reuters - Funding healthcare through cigarette tax
• A health care liability claim under Texas law
• Limited use of inferred negligence in medical cases
• The learned intermediary doctrine and its effects on prescribing physicians
• Business Week - Electronic Records Key in Health Care Reform
• New Anti-Markup rule effective 1-1-09 impacts large physician groups
• New OCR Guidance on HIPAA Privacy Rule and the Electronic Exchange of Health Information
• OIG Opinion on Gainsharing
• NOW AVAILABLE: Greater Dallas Physician Practice & Wage Survey Results
• OIG opinion on part-time physicians hired to do endoscopies
• Preemption, tort reform, and pharmaceutical claims
• Business Week - Electronic Records Key in Health Care Reform
• A health care liability claim under Texas law
• Death certificates
• Defending Claims When Prescribing Drugs and Using Medical Devices
• Package inserts and the standard of care
• New anti-markup rule effective 1-09 impacts large physician groups
• Settling a claim within policy limits
• Practice pitfalls
• Pathological evidence in malpractice trials
• Not-so-obvious considerations for professional liability insurance
• Medicolegal Issues - Who is an expert - A quick primer on an evasive concept
• Handling requests from attorneys
• Handling investigations of the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners
• Giving depositions as a defendant or an expert
• Getting stiffed no longer needs to be the cost of doing business - Texas prompt pay provisions
• Exemplary damages
• Washington Post - Surgery Checklist Lowers Death Rate
• Physicians News.com - Identity theft compliance for Physicians due May 2009
• Arrests made by OIG for health care fraud in Physical Therapy