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- Emergency Medicine Claims Alert
- Barris v. County of Los Angeles Goes to the California Supreme Court, Emergency
Medicine Claims Alert, Vol. 5, No. 6
- EMTALA: Recent Developments and Things to Come, Emergency Medicine Claims Alert,
Vol. 5, No. 5
- Claims Alert
- Informed Consent Revisited: What is Expected of Physicians, Claims Alert #17
Select state supplement:
Alaska
California
Hawaii 
Idaho
- Managing Your Practice
- No news is good news...an unsafe policy, Managing Your Practice
#16
- Efficient scheduling, Managing Your Practice #15
- Patient education improves care and reduces liability, Managing Your Practice #14
- Patient safety in a medical office practice, Managing Your
Practice # 13
- Communication between physicians and other health care providers,
Managing Your Practice # 12
- Protect your patient's right to privacy, Managing Your Practice #11
- Guidelines to telephone etiquette, Managing Your Practice #10
- A quality improvement program for an office practice, Managing Your Practice #9
- Telephone advice programs - benefits and risks, Managing Your Practice #7
- How to manage noncompliant patients, Managing Your Practice #6
- Closing a medical practice upon retirement, Managing Your Practice #5
- Faxing medical records and other confidential data, Managing Your Practice
#4A
- Patient complaints: how to stop them before they start, Managing Your Practice
#3
- How to discharge a patient from your medical practice, Managing Your Practice
#2
- “How long do we have to keep medical records?”, Managing Your Practice
#1B
- New Law Alert
- New laws affecting California clinicians #15 (March 2008, California only)
- New laws affecting physicians, nonphysician clinicians, and
pharmacists, New Law Alert #13 (August 2005, California only)
- New laws affecting California physicians in 2004, New Law Alert #12 (May 2004, California only)
- New laws require CME for pain management, expand acupuncture treatment modalities, and more, New Law Alert # 11 (April 2002, California
only)
- New Law Alert #10 (October 2001, California only) California physicians who diagnose or
treat certain types of cancer must distribute written educational information
- California legislature amends Confidentiality of Medical Information Act
again..., New Law Alert #9 (May 2001, California Edition)
- New law expands optometrists’ scope of practice, New Law Alert #8 (January 2001,
California Edition)
- Physicians’ liability under the Elder Abuse Act, New Law Alert #7 (November 2000,
California edition)
- Patient Safety and Confidentiality of Medical Information, New Law Alert #4 (March 2000,
California Edition)
- Mammography Quality Standards Act Final Regulations Go Into Effect, New Law Alert #3
(May 1999)
- Special Report Claims Alert
- Why, why, why do CQI?! #40
- When trouble comes knockin’… What to do when legal papers arrive #39
- How do I say I’m sorry? Let me count the ways #38
- Avoiding allegations of sexual misconduct #37B
- Challenge for Psychiatrists: Collaborative Treatment with
Nonphysician co-treaters #37A
- The Physician-Patient Relationship: An Invitation to Collaborate
#36
- Electronic Medical Records; What to Consider #35
- HIPAA’s Privacy Act: A Compliance Primer for the Solo and Small Group Practice
#34
- Disclosure of Unanticipated Outcomes, Special Report Claims Alert #33
- Medical Assistants: An update on the scope and limits of training
#32A
- Medical Assistants: Scope and limits of their training, Special Report Claims Alert
#32
- The 20th year of Aids, Special Report Claims Alert #31
- Medication-related claims: the causes and their prevention, Special Report Claims Alert
#30
- Complementary and alternative medicine: Issues and concerns, Special Report Claims Alert
#29
- Top reasons you can be sued for malpractice—and lose, Special Report Claims Alert
#28
- Failure to Treat Pain: “Elder Abuse” Claims Threaten MDs, Special Report
Claims Alert #27
- California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act: Rules for privacy and
release of medical information, Special Report Claims Alert #26A
- Use of Nonphysician Clinicians in a Medical Practice, Special Report Claims Alert
#25A
- Using E-Mail to Communicate with Patients and Health Professionals - Pros and Cons,
Special Report Claims Alert #24A
- Altered medical records and other charting hazards, Special Report
Claims Alert #20A
- Write On!
- Telephone communication: Did you hear what I heard?
- Communication errors. Systems failures.
- Forms - Word documents cannot be
modified online. Download to your computer and modify offline.
- Patient Authorization Form for Release of Medical Information
- Physician's Request for Release of Outpatient Psychotherapy Medical Information
- Emergency Department/Radiology “Wet Read” Form
- Orthopedic After Care Instructions
- Authorization for Treatment of Minor
- Consultation Request Form
- Did Not Keep Appointment Template
- Your Doctor and You
- Informed Consent Template
- Consultant’s Introduction Card
- Lab Test Form
- Lab/X-ray Report Review Template
- Medication Control Record (1)
- Medication Control Record (2)
- On Call Report Form
- Patient Education
- Patient Survey
- Phone Documentation Form
- Phone Message Form
- Preliminary Consultation Report Form
- Preliminary Radiologist’s Telephone Report Form
- Progress Note Format
- Psychiatry Progress Note Template
- Recommendations for Withdrawal from Care Letter
- A Log to Track Referrals and Test Results
- Sample Letter to Announce Retirement
- Physician's Surgery and Procedure Consent Form
- Telephone Advice Guidelines for Pediatric Office
Abdominal Pain
- Telephone Advice Guidelines for Pediatric Office
Head Injury / Blow to the Head
- Triage Rubber Stamp Template
- Welcome to Our Office
- Sample Letter of Withdrawal from Care
- Work Status Report Form
- X-ray Release Form
- We Get Letters
- We Get Letters #13 (January 2008) Topics -- Identifying drug-seeking patients, Reducing liability exposure when treating chronic pain patients, Pain management agreement
(Figure 1)
- We Get Letters #12 (November 2004) Topics -- Specialists and primary
care physicians, triplicate prescriptions, volunteering after
retirement, clarification of EMTALA
- We Get Letters #11 (May 2004) Topics -- Sharing office space,
psychiatric medication management and EMTALA changes
- We Get Letters #10 (April 2003) Topics -- EMTALA and oncall
coverage
- We Get Letters #9 (August 2002) Topics -- HIPAA Electronic health care transactions,
Privacy rule requirements, Websites
- We Get Letters #8 (October 2001, Hawaii only) Topics -- Supervision of Certified
Registered Nurse Anesthetists; medical records and privacy of health care information;
medical records and HIPAA; and hiring medical assistants
- We Get Letters #7 (June 2001) Topics -- HIPAA; arbitration; calling MIEC.
- We Get Letters #6 (December 2000): Topics -- Scheduling delays; the use of phone logs;
limits on prescribing medications; reporting lapses of consciousness; and complementary
and alternative medicine.
- We Get Letters #5 (September 2000): Topics -- Practice break-ups; charging patients for
phone calls; charges for copying medical records; medications; surgery discharge advice;
when a patient lies to his/her physician; and getting charts from the emergency
department.
- We Get Letters #4 (June 2000): Topics -- Wrong number on pager; creating a website;
legislation website; refilling drugs for discharged patients; interpreters; voice
recognition software; mammograms; special services for patients; and rubber stamp
signatures.
- We Get Letters #3 (December 1999): Topics -- Communicating test results; liposuction
claims; in-office sale of health-related products; computerized medical records;
recommended reading for physicians; and informed consent resource.
- We Get Letters #2 (September 1999): Topics -- Wrong-site surgery; antibiotic overuse;
physician websites; releasing psychiatric medical records.
- We Get Letters #1 (July 1999): Topics -- Needlestick injury; medications; practice
guidelines; medical records; medical office staff; and telemedicine.
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