Legal Scrubs

If you're a physician with an independent medical practice, there's a good chance that you have at least one or more employees on your staff and that you have a written personnel manual or written employee policies and procedures. If so, then you should listen to today's podcast to learn 4 specific and actionable tips that you should take right now to possibly avoid an employment law problem when and if you have to fire one of your employees.

What should a health professional do when he or she gets an online review of the practice is negative and damaging to the practice's reputation?

More and more prospective patients check out online reviews before deciding on which doctor or dentist to see for their medical or dental services.

So, it can be very damaging for a medical or dental practice to deal with negative online reviews from patients.

But great care is required in how health professionals should (and should not!) responds to negative reviews.

HIPAA is implicated as are all the complexities of defamation law and the risk of an anti-SLAPP suit against the doctor or dentist by the disgruntled patient.

So, doctor or dentist, beware!

Listen to today's podcast episode of Legal Scrubs to learn more about what to do if your medical or dental practice is the recipient of a negative online patient review.

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One of the first decisions that physicians who have made the important decision to establish their own independent and entrepreneurial medical practice must make is this--what form of legal entity is the best choice for the new practice that is being started? Facts and circumstances vary from one medical practice to another, and so the decision is not one than can be made in a vacuum or with a cookie cutter approach. This podcast discusses the various options for a new medical practice in Tennessee and what the thought process could be to help physicians think through what is the best legal entity choice for their own medical practice. If you want to watch this podcast in video format, here's a link to today's video on the DPS Legal Counsel YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/6pVprYxavEo If you find this podcast helpful, please consider subscribing to the Podcast and leaving a review. Thanks for listening!

Many businesses have had to close during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Although physicians and their practices are essential during this time, many doctors in private practice have also seen a decline in the number of patients visiting their practices, particularly if their medical practices provide more elective treatments and procedures.

Just like other small business owners, physicians in private practice may be looking for ways to improve and increase their cash flow during this time of uncertainty.

This podcast episode of Legal Scrubs discusses 5 simple things that doctors can do now to improve their cash flow for their medical practices.

The new CARES Act includes a new SBA loan program for small businesses called the Paycheck Protection Program.

Among the small businesses that can possibly benefit from PPP are small independent medical practices.

Listen to today's episode of Legal Scrubs to find out more about how PPP might be of interest to your medical practice.

Doctors in private practice are experiencing the same challenges all small businesses are during this trying time.

But the new CARES Act recently signed into law provides an important benefit to physicians whose practices include Medicare patients.

Physicians can request advance or accelerated payments from CMS for Medicare patients they won't even see or treat until late summer this year.

And payments are supposed to be paid to doctors within about a week after an approved request is made.

Cash now for future patients!

Listen to today's episode of Legal Scrubs to learn more.

Doctors are busy, but they need to take some time to think about estate planning and what they should do to protect their loved ones.

Taxes, asset protection, titling assets the right way, and business succession for medical practices--these are points that doctors need to know about.