New Healthcare Price Transparency Requirements Are Complicated & Vary by State
Healthcare law is ever changing, particularly with regard to price transparency. Key healthcare leaders and stakeholders have long argued for more stringent price transparency regulations in an effort...
View ArticleNew No-Surprises Rules May Affect Rheumatology Services at Hospitals
This month, we offer an overview of the federal No Surprises Act, which stipulates that healthcare insurers may not surprise patients with out-of-network care bills, instead requiring healthcare...
View ArticleSet Up to Fail: The Criminalization of Clinical Practice
On Dec. 27, 2017, RaDonda Vaught killed Charlene Murphey, allegedly. Ms. Murphey was a lifelong resident of Gallatin, a suburb of Nashville, Tenn. She was well known from having worked at the local...
View ArticleWhere Do Rules End & Compassion Begin?
My long-standing patient with CRST syndrome (i.e., calcinosis cutis, Raynaud’s phenomenon, sclerodactyly and telangiectasia) had been losing ground over the past 18 months. BL was 54 and had developed...
View ArticleHow to Navigate the Employment Offer
There’s nothing quite as exciting as answering a phone call to hear the words: “You’re hired.” After hours of research and preparation, multiple interviews and a healthy dose of daydreaming about your...
View ArticleHow to Tackle Due Diligence in Advance of Selling Your Practice
Healthcare businesses are a hot commodity in the market today. A buyer may even be interested in your healthcare practice right now. Whether or not you’ve gone down the road of selling your practice...
View ArticleSpeak Out Rheum: To Prescribe Is Humane (Unless You’re In Texas)
You are a rheumatologist in Texas. You are very well trained. Your mentors included some of the leaders in rheumatology, and you are respected by your colleagues and your patients. You know the...
View ArticleThe Pandemic’s End: What Do the Ending National Emergency Proclamations Mean...
As COVID-19 case counts fade from the headlines and people return to their pre-pandemic routines, rheumatologists and rheumatology professionals may be wondering what “the end” of COVID-19 is going to...
View ArticleIn the Wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
Since the Supreme Court ruling in June 2022 overturning 50 years of precedent protecting abortion as a constitutional right (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization), states are enacting and...
View ArticleWhat’s Next for Telehealth after the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency?
Do you remember where you were when the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) was declared on Jan. 31, 2020? While it may seem like yesterday, you would be forgiven for not recalling your exact...
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