Like most Americans, over the past three years you have probably had a number of impassioned debates with your colleagues, friends and family about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”). Perhaps the most controversial and highly-debated aspect of …
Are Californians Safe from Their Doctors? The Los Angeles Times has reported that drugs prescribed by doctors played a role in almost half Southern California’s deaths from prescription-drug overdoses over a five-year span. At least 30 patients in Southern California …
Fenton Nelson attorneys Aaron Lachant and Carol Scott delivered a presentation today at the California Association of Health Care Services at Home (CAHSAH) Annual Conference in Monterey, CA. The presentation, “Preparing for and Responding to Hospice and Home Health Audits,” …
California legislators are considering a bill to strip the California Medical Board of its powers to investigate problem physicians. The board has been criticized for failing to properly discipline doctors who are accused of harming patients, including recklessly prescribing painkillers.
This article was published in Podiatry Today, Volume 26 – Issue 4 – April 2013. FULL ARTICLE
The Office of Civil Rights, Department of Health and Human Services has just issued a pre-publication request for information about possible plans to amend the HIPAA privacy rule to make it easier for covered entities to report certain mental health …
On April 11, 2013, the Los Angeles Times reported that California state lawmakers sent a letter to the Medical Board President Sharon Levine requesting that the Medical Board “be more responsive” in monitoring physicians. In doing so, the lawmakers requested …