To effectively build and expand your healthcare business you have to find a location that suits your needs. That might sound easy enough, but the process can be complicated by numerous issues, including scarcity, rental rates and ADA compliance. But as a healthcare...
Hospice care facilities, like any type of health care provider, can be held liable for medical malpractice. Often, families of patients in hospice care don’t realize that since their loved ones are there to receive palliative care to keep them as comfortable as...
In some cases, it becomes very clear to family members that they need to move their elderly loved one into a hospice center. The person’s condition has begun to decline, and it doesn’t appear that they will make a recovery. What is best for them is often to get...
When someone goes to a hospice center, the goal is generally to provide comforting end-of-life care. Medical professionals may have determined that there’s nothing more that they can do to cure the person's condition. It’s now about making them comfortable and...
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...
