More Than 20 Years Of Experience In The Field Of Health Care Law
Setting up and running your own medical practice can be both personally and financially rewarding. You get to treat patients and you can do this on your own terms. With that being said, as with any business, running your own medical facility is not easy. Your facility...
The Stark Law is a federal statute that regulates the financial relationships in the healthcare industry to prevent fraud and abuse against both patients and the health care system as a whole. In general, this “Physician Self-Referral Law” is designed to make certain...
Even though the majority of physicians and their staff apply good judgment in all matters of patient care, patients and their families are often justified in filing medical malpractice lawsuits against negligent healthcare professionals. This is a clear indication...
Texas nursing homes play a valuable role in providing care for individuals as they age. As with all businesses, nursing homes have overhead. Much of the money that nursing homes and other medical facilities pay covers administration and other overhead-related...
For thousands of Texas residents each year, hospice services represent a crucial form of care at the last stage of life. This is frequently a traumatic and difficult time under the best of circumstances, but past traumas can often add to the stress and difficulty....
As people near the end of their lives, many legal and medical issues arise. One of the most common problems is where cancer patients die. Many cancer patients prefer to die at home due to the comfort of familiar surroundings and the lower costs than dying in a...
The state of Texas is unenrolling Medicaid recipients faster than any other in the United States, and some of these recipients include eligible children and adults living with serious medical conditions that require life-saving treatment and medications. Patients and...
The end-of-life care sector in Texas and around the country was once a relatively small part of the health care industry that was dominated by charities, but it has now grown to become a $33.06 billion industry. Experts believe that the hospice sector will grow to...
A healthcare proxy and a living will are two of the most common ways that Texas residents legally make their medical wishes known. Medical professionals will refer to either of these legal directives when a patient is unable to make medical decisions for themselves....
Skilled nursing has always been the hallmark of hospice care in Texas. This is an industry where quality of care has always been more important than mere profits. However, it is also true that there does need to be at least a nominal return on the hundreds of millions...
