AIHC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This article is not intended as legal or consulting advice. If your practice is currently using a telebehavioral health approach for patient treatment, or if you organization is considering implementing this approach, we hope this article will give some food-for-thought on the topic.

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AIHC

JANUARY 5, 2022

This article is a follow up to the August 17, 2021, Sending “Surprise” Medical Bills to Patients? Contact your risk attorney through your malpractice insurance company for guidance which is obtained through no additional cost (part of the service you get when paying the insurance premium). Identify eligible cases.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Professionals within a professional relationship are subject to a variety of legal constraints, such as informed consent requirements or professional malpractice liability if things go wrong. For example, free speech is not a defense against a malpractice claim.

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Drug & Device Law

AUGUST 8, 2022

Apparently, a fraudulent foreign-trained “doctor” treated the plaintiffs, none of whom claimed malpractice or any physical injury whatsoever. Anyway, this fraudulent “doctor” allegedly “touched them without informed consent” and caused them “emotional distress. 23 in its current form.

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 28, 2022

For instance, Plaintiffs relied on a medical journal article that compared the product at issue with the defendant’s own TVT product. She sued the gynecologist, not the surgeon who implanted the mesh, for failing to obtain informed consent for the implant. That’s right. Can she do that? Now go call your mother.

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Drug & Device Law

APRIL 21, 2023

Heck, Bexis and our colleague Matthew Jacobson even wrote a law review article on the topic a few years back. These paradigms are difficult to apply to healthcare providers, who operate under a different warnings regime that focused on informed consent. The Nevada Court of Appeals held that they could sue for both.

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