Disclosure Accounting Basics

In HIPAA, we have something called disclosure accounting, and most people are not familiar with this. If you are brand new to having your own practice or brand new to not having a whole HIPAA department available to you, know that HIPAA disclosure accounting is not...

Introduction

Not playing by the rules can have serious consequences. At the end of 2022 in San Luis Obispo, California, a nurse practitioner, Sarah Erny, signed a settlement to pay almost $20,000 and was ordered to remove most mentions of herself on the Internet and remove her own website because...

The Federal Public Health Emergency will end soon, and many states have already set their termination dates for State Public Health Emergencies. Prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine is allowed now during the Public Health Emergency. But what will happen once the Public Health...

If someone offered you a business plan for $20,000 that could make you $100,000 in the future, but it’s illegal, would you take it?

That’s exactly the situation I came across recently in a webinar, and, believe it or not, many people chose to do it.  This continues to...

You may be wondering, "Do I need cyber liability insurance? What does (and doesn’t) it cover? What are the two types? What cyber liability insurance is right for me?"

Cyber liability insurance is something I do recommend that everybody at least asks their insurance agent about. Before...

Have you heard? In a bit of a stunning move, Alabama has repealed its telemedicine license program in 2022. This sets an extremely negative precedent for the rest of the country. 

I have been providing you with important updates on telemedicine laws around the country, and up until this...

What is a privacy policy? Why do you need one on your website? What should even be in it? 

These are some of the questions I get all the time from my clients, and a proper understanding of privacy policies can be very valuable. Through this blog, I’ll cover the answers to these three...

Can you delete a bad Google review or a bad review on Facebook or even on your website? 

Sorry, but you can't. 

But there are a number of ways you can manage your reviews to turn the negative into a positive!

This week I received this question from one of my clients who received...

Finally! Finally, we have some additional clarity surrounding the Good Faith Estimate rule and how it can be better implemented by providers. 

My members have been peppering me with many of the questions below for months now. And I am glad HHS published these answers for...

How does the NCAA basketball tournament relate to you in your practice, in your business, and in your life?  I'm not an expert ball spinner (see video!); however, I did play basketball in college at a small Division 3 school, so I lived and breathed March Madness. Going back to my high...

A new law, now called the No Surprises Act, was passed in December of 2020 to take effect on January 1, 2022. Good Faith Estimates (GFEs) are a new requirement as of 2022 for all physician offices to offer their patients. We are going to look into these new requirements (how you can...

Did you know that the state could shut down your business if you fail to file one form each year? The good news is that the form is very simple. It takes you less than 10 minutes, but if you forget to do it, the state will dissolve or terminate your company, and it will no longer exist....