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Health Care Practitioner’s Guide to Navigating COVID-19: …

WebThe Coronavirus Disease (“COVID-19”) outbreak impacts everyone on the planet. The rapid speed and complexity of the pandemic creates unprecedented issues and opportunities for health care providers. In the race to increase accessibility and affordability of care for those impacted by the virus, President Trump declared a state of emergency. […]

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COVID-19 and HIPAA: What You Need To Know

WebThis article is the second in a multi-part series addressing health care questions and issues that have arisen during the Coronavirus Disease (“COVID-19”) outbreak. The first article in the series provided an overview of the emergency measures, enacted by federal and state governments intended to increase the accessibility and affordability […]

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Florida Enacts New Law Affecting Mandatory Vaccine Policies in …

WebOn November 18, 2021, Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law House Bill No. 1-B, which immediately prohibited all governmental entities and educational institutions in the state of Florida from imposing mandatory workplace COVID-19 vaccine policies. While private employers may still require employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, they must …

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Advising Clients onHealth Care Privacy and Security HIPPA

WebOur Health Care Group focuses on helping clients understand and address the complex privacy, security, and breach notification requirements under HIPAA. We take a proactive approach to compliance matters, making certain that our clients are armed with the knowledge and tools they need to avoid unnecessary privacy and security risks and

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Buying or Selling a Medical Practice: A “Taxing” Proposition

WebThe purchase and sale of any business can be a daunting task. A transaction involving a medical practice is even further complicated by confusing and often impractical health care laws. While focused on business and contractual terms in the highly regulated health care industry, buyers and sellers often ignore important […]

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Audits: Ready or Not, They are Here to Stay

WebHospitals, physician groups and other health care providers who provide services to Medicare beneficiaries (“Providers”) are at significant risk for increased scrutiny, auditing activity, and, most importantly, demands for refunds of claimed overpayments from Medicare, Medicaid and even private insurance companies. The Federal Government …

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Jamie A. Klapholz

WebExperience. Ms. Klapholz concentrates her practice in the area of health care law, representing licensed health care professionals, group practices, health care clinics, medical billing companies, hospices, diagnostic testing facilities, home health agencies, pharmacies, clinical laboratories, not-for-profit charitable health clinics, assisted

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Balance Billing Changes

WebStarting July 1, out-of-network providers in Florida are no longer permitted to bill patients for amounts not paid by the patient’s plan, a practice known as “balance billing.”. Previously, balance billing was prohibited only for patients of HMO plans, but the new bill extends the prohibition to PPOs and EPOs. The new law impacts out-of

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ARNPs and PAs Can Now Prescribe Controlled Substances In Florida

WebOn July 1, 2016, a new law took effect permitting advanced registered nurse practitioners (“ARNPs”) and physician assistants (“PAs”) to have full prescribing privileges in Florida. Although the new law is now on the books, the law delayed the implementation of the broader prescribing authority of ARNPs and PAs until […]

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Your Medical Practice Can Suddenly Become Illegal!

WebNestled among the Act’s provisions is the requirement that any medical practice not 100% owned by physicians must register as a Clinic with the state of Florida. If it fails to register, the medical practice cannot bill an insurance company, Medicare or Medicaid for its services. If it does, it has committed a crime.

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Determining Mental Capacity Required to Make a Will or Trust, …

WebA person must be of “sound mind” when he or she makes a will.1 This standard also applies to a trust. Florida case law defines “testamentary capacity” as “the ability to mentally understand in a general way (1) the nature and extent of …

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Stark Law Changes Effective January 1, 2022: What To Know

WebNew regulations interpreting the Stark law that will become effective on January 1, 2022 will require physician groups to re-evaluate their compensation methodologies for distributing ancillary revenues. The federal physician self-referral law, more commonly known as the “Stark law,” prohibits (among other things) a physician …

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Larry Dougherty Joins Johnson Pope’s Litigation Team

WebTampa, FL — Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel & Burns, LLP is pleased to announce that Lawrence J. “Larry” Dougherty has joined its litigation practice group. With extensive expertise in litigation and an impressive track record, Larry will further enhance our distinguished litigation practice group. Larry brings a wealth of experience […]

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