Legal Services from Carolyn Buppert
Advice for medical practices, hospitals and academic institutions on
- Getting third-party reimbursement for physician or nurse practitioner services
- Avoiding charges of improper billing of physician or nurse practitioner services
- Evaluating and altering business structure
- Negotiating and drafting contracts
- Auditing of billing and documentation for hospitals, facilities and practices for internal compliance purposes and for risk management and training purposes
Legal documents for for-profit and non-profit corporations
- Contracts – managed care contracts, vendor contracts, service contracts, employment contracts
- Corporate documents
- Trademark applications
- Tax-exempt status applications
Advice for individual clinicians
- Negotiating, drafting and reviewing contracts
- Starting a new business
- Business consultations
- Systems for efficient use of nurse practitioners in health care systems
Systems for
- Training clinicians on billing and coding
- Avoiding malpractice
- Complying with Federal rules in billing nurse practitioner services
Presentations to medical/nursing groups on
- Covering your legal bases
- Prescribing: Avoiding legal pitfalls
- Avoiding malpractice
- Reimbursement for nurse practitioner services
- Avoiding fraud
- Negotiating employment
- HIPAA patient privacy regulations
Recent consultations:
- Large academic medical centers
- Community hospitals
- Specialists’ offices
- Primary care practices
- Home care agencies
- State nurse practitioner organizations
- A certification organization
- Corporate office for network of nursing homes
- Physicians negotiating employment contracts
- A nurse practitioner who had been sued for malpractice
- Nurse practitioners being investigated by a Boards of Nursing