Welcome to the third installment of our business and healthcare law firm’s monthly medical board meeting review, focusing on the Georgia Composite Medical Board (“Medical Board” or “GCMB”). As a healthcare law firm with physician clients, it is our duty to stay up to date with the Medical Board’s positions…
Direct primary care practices have become popular alternatives to the traditional insurance medical practice model. Direct primary care practices cut out insurance companies from the provider-patient relationship. This post intends to outline the recent history of direct primary care in Georgia and the relevant rules that practices must comply with…
Ketamine is a substance growing in popularity as a treatment for, among other things, depression and pain management. Ketamine clinics are quickly increasing in popularity. Why Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Has Gone Mainstream, Forbes (Oct. 18, 2021). Our healthcare and business law firm assists clients in understanding the rules and requirements around…
As a healthcare and business law firm, we work with many physicians employed by Federally Qualified Health Centers, or “FQHCs.” Working at an FQHC offers certain benefits and protections to providers. One such benefit is that individual providers are generally protected from civil malpractice lawsuits. Although our firm does not…
Last week, our blog post discussed the general rules permitting telemedicine in Georgia. Often, our healthcare and business law firm’s provider clients who conduct telemedicine also need to understand the requirements around prescribing controlled substances based on telemedicine visits. This post intends to outline some of the relevant prescribing rules…
Welcome to the second installment of our business and healthcare law firm’s monthly medical board meeting review, focusing on the Georgia Composite Medical Board (“Medical Board” or “GCMB”). As a healthcare law firm with physician clients, it is our duty to stay up to date with the Medical Board’s positions…
Our healthcare and business law firm consistently works with physicians who are dealing with complications resulting from adverse reporting to the National Practitioner Data Bank (“NPDB”). Certain entities, including medical licensure boards and medical malpractice payers, have a duty to report specific actions or events to the NPDB. Any practitioner…
Welcome to the first installment of our business and healthcare law firm’s monthly medical board meeting review, focusing on the Georgia Composite Medical Board (“GCMB” or “Medical Board”). As a healthcare law firm with many physician clients, it is our duty to stay up to date with the Medical Board’s…
On May 1, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published final rule CMS-9115-F known as the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule. “This final rule is the first phase of policies centrally focused on advancing interoperability and patient access to health information.” 85 Fed. Reg. 25511. CMS…
Welcome to the fifth and final of our business and healthcare law firm’s holiday-themed blog posts. We hope you have enjoyed this holiday season so far and have a great time ringing in the new year tonight. Happy 2021! Many of our healthcare provider and healthcare business clients own their…