Michigan Hospital Allegedly Allowed Nurses to Administer Drugs Absent Physician’s Order
What happens if a healthcare facility has an unwritten, common practice of allowing nurses to give patients drugs as needed, without a doctor’s authorization?
Chapman Law Group represents urgent care centers and health care providers working in urgent care settings in Florida and Michigan. We have teams of attorneys dedicated to certain areas of healthcare law, who regularly assist urgent care centers and their providers with various issues, such as urgent care services compliance.
The urgent care model is popular among physicians looking to own their own practice. It has several attractive features compared to other practice models, including higher reimbursement rates, relatively low regulatory oversight and low startup costs. Urgent care centers can be a lucrative business for general and family practice physicians.
Our transactional attorneys help practice owners build and protect their investment. Our team of transactional attorneys have advanced law degrees in health care law and are exceptionally educated and experienced in matters related to practice ownership. They can handle the most complex business arrangements, including:
Many urgent cares utilize advanced practice providers to provide care. These urgent cares should ensure they properly supervise these providers, as failure to do so could lead to administrative action and civil liability. Our attorneys assist urgent cares in preparing written protocols for supervision of mid-levels. We also assist with preparation of medical director contracts, provider contracts and locum agreements.
Fraud allegations can arise from incorrect coding, intentional submission of false claims, improper referral practices, improper payments to medical directors and marketers, and other business practices that can lead to unintentional violation of fraud and abuse laws.
The healthcare lawyers at Chapman Law Group are highly knowledge and experienced in federal and state anti-kickback, Stark and false claims laws. These attorneys regularly assist health care providers and facilities with review of contracts and business plans to ensure compliance with all health care fraud and abuse laws.
We also have a team of criminal law attorneys who defend providers during criminal fraud prosecution. Our team includes a former health care prosecutor who is exceptionally knowledgeable in fraud detection strategies, audit procedures and statistical sampling, as well as administrative, criminal and civil fraud action. Our attorneys are highly experienced in defending criminal and civil action against providers for fraud. We have defended numerous providers accused of Medicare and Medicaid fraud, including urgent care owners and providers.
For 35 years, Chapman Law Group has been defending providers accused of malpractice. Our clients include major malpractice insurers, self-insured health care corporations, and providers. We represent urgent care centers and their providers during malpractice actions.
Many of our malpractice attorneys have more than 10 years of experience defending providers in complex malpractice actions, including urgent care malpractice claims that often involve multiple providers. Common malpractice claims against urgent care providers include failure to diagnose, failure to treat, and improper follow-up instructions.
We serve regulated facilities and healthcare professionals across the U.S. Our four national offices are in Detroit, Michigan; Miami and Sarasota, Florida; and Los Angeles/Southern California.
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