If you are a practicing physician, this blog is for you. In it, we will focus on issues that affect the realities of practicing medicine in the current healthcare environment from the physician’s point of view. The blog will provide articles and exchanges that will discuss various legal, business, and ethical dilemmas that arise for physicians and their practices as well as offer practical solutions.
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Public Safety Comes First - Duties and Obligations of Ombudsmen in Healthcare Bankruptcies
USA - May 13 2019 Healthcare bankruptcies present unique challenges in addition to financial restructuring. An immediate concern that must be addressed in these cases…
Jury Finds against Hospital in “Sham Peer Review” Case (Updated)
USA - February 12 2018 A federal court jury in South Dakota awarded a surgeon in excess of $1.1 million in damages for breach of contract. The surgeon, Dr. Linda Miller…
Texas Citizens Participation Act Bars Physicians “Sham” Peer Review Claims
USA - October 10 2017 Last week, the Thirteenth District Court of Appeals in Corpus Christi-Edinburg dealt another blow to peer review in Texas. The Court dismissed a…
Houston Physician Wins Defamation Suit in Connection with Peer Review
USA - March 30 2017 Dr. Miguel Gomez is a thoracic and vascular surgeon in Houston. In 2012, he filed suit against Memorial Hermann Hospital System and certain individual…
Part 3 of 3: The Telemedicine Debate in Texas: Federal Judge Halts the TMB’s Revised Rule
USA - January 25 2017 In December of 2015, federal Judge Robert L. Pitman declined to dismiss Teladoc’s antitrust suit, holding that the TMB was not immune (as it had…
Part 2 of 3: The Telemedicine Debate in Texas: Teladoc Sues in Federal Court
USA - January 16 2017 The rule issued by the Texas Medical Board requiring physicians to conduct a face-to-face or in-person visit with a patient in order to establish a…
Part 1 of 3: The Telemedicine Debate in Texas: Teladoc in the Spotlight
USA - January 9 2017 Telemedicine will no doubt make an impact on the way health care is delivered in Texas, as well as in the rest of the country. Teladoc, a Dallas-based…
TMB Drops Appeal of Antitrust Challenge to Telemedicine Limits
USA - October 20 2016 In a surprising move on Monday, the Texas Medical Board (TMB) voluntarily dismissed its appeal to the Fifth Circuit in the antitrust challenge brought…
Physician employment and non-competes part 4
USA - November 11 2015 Even more disconcerting, there is a Texas case that supports an argument that the "buy-out" option may actually be turned into a penalty that must be…
Physician employment and non-competes part 3
USA - October 28 2015 The “buy-out” price of the non-compete can be unilaterally set by the employer in the contract, and thus typically bear no real relationship to the…
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