Back Issues

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September 1999 - Dental

• Dentists can Form PA’s
• Dentist-Patient Privilege
• Staff Privileges, Prompt Pay, Noncompetes, Billing & Records, Living Wills, Franchise Tax Break

March 2000

• M.D. Collective Bargaining
• Office Space Fraud Alert
• Office-Based Anesthesia Regs, Prompt Pay, Noncompetes, Records, Website Favorites

June 2000

• Aetna Settlement – Hugh Barton
• Contracts with Nondentists – Jeanine Lehman

September 2000

• Ambulatory Surgical Center Safe Harbor – Jeanine Lehman & Hugh M. Barton
• TX Managed Care Update – Hugh M. Barton

December 2000

• Clean Claim Rules – Jeanine Lehman
• Compliance Programs for Physician Offices– Hugh M. Barton & Jeanine Lehman
• TX Bills
  

March 2001

• TX Legislative Update – Jeanine Lehman & Hugh M. Barton
• HIPAA & Stark Rules – Hugh M. Barton

June 2001

• TX Legislative Update – Jeanine Lehman
• Legislature Overview – Hugh M. Barton
• HCFA Changing Names; NHIC Settlement – Hugh M. Barton
  

December 2001

• Aetna Fine; Good Samaritan Case – Jeanine Lehman
• Managed Care Malpractice Cases - Hugh M. Barton
• TSBME Director; Bundling/Downcoding; Chiro PA's
  Cigna Class Action; Websites
  

March 2002

• PacifiCare of Texas Suit - Jeanine Lehman
• Podiatric Controversy - Hugh M. Barton
• HIPAA Privacy Revisited - Hugh M. Barton
• HMOs, Testimonials, Dr. Profiles
  

August 2002

• State Computer Bug - Jeanine Lehman
• Podiatric Case Settles? - Hugh M. Barton
• HIPAA - Hugh M. Barton
• Corporate Reinstatement – Lehman

February 2003

• Tort Reform - Hugh M. Barton
• Good Samaritan Law - Jeanine Lehman
• Managed Care - Hugh M. Barton
• More Proposed Texas Bills – Jeanine Lehman
• HIPAA Deadline