Bernie received his Bachelor of Arts in economics from Oakland University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School.
Rules range from the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) which can be a major source of confusion on privacy and security issues, to the 1989 Stark Law which regulates doctor referrals, to the Corporate Practice of Medicine laws which prohibit businesses from employing physicians, and forbid doctors from splitting fees with non-doctors.
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If your loved one is in this situation, enlist the help of the doctor when you can, or law enforcement when possible.
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Mr. Kerschberg has a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Affairs and German, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Virginia and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, where he was as a Coker Fellow.
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In a recent Populus poll for the Times, three-quarters of those who responded supported a change in the law to allow doctor-assisted suicide (which doctors themselves are not keen on).
If Holmes' enters such a plea, he would waive all medical confidentiality and will have to turn over the name of any doctor or psychologist who may have treated him, according to Colorado law.
In Australia, meanwhile, Philip Nitschke (a doctor who helped four terminally ill people to die under the protection of a now-repealed law in that country's Northern Territory) is pushing NuTech in new directions.
Amid a primary care doctor shortage, eligible patients will need all of the doctors they can get given the health law expands Medicaid coverage to millions more Americans effective Jan. 1, 2014 for participating states.
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Aaron Eitan Meyer recently received his Juris Doctor degree from Touro Law Center, and is currently Assistant to the Director at the Legal Project of the Middle East Forum and Legal Correspondent to the Terror Finance Blog.
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Experts say it is increasingly important for patients to lock in a primary-care doctor soon because of expected increased demand for physicians starting in 2014, when the new federal health-overhaul law will add millions of people to the health-insurance rolls.
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