Guest Author Jennifer Searfoss, Esq.: What Can an Attorney Do For a Medical Practice?

There are moments when the physician-centric world needs to engage an attorney. Please don’t hesitate to pick up the phone when the FBI shows up with a search warrant!

There are other moments when you and the physicians you work with do not need an attorney for boiler-plate contracts. How do you tell the difference?

What an attorney can do for you

Areas that an attorney can help your office include (but by no means are limited to):

• Audit requests from RACs and insurers
• Contractual and corporate organization documents
• Human resource issues
• Credentialing and privileging disputes
• Ethical and disciplinary reviews
• Quality, peer-review and risk management

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