Medico-legal cases or medical-legal cases are cases where medical issues intersect with legal considerations, often involving the interpretation and application of laws and regulations in the context of healthcare. These cases arise when a person seeks legal help due...
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Key Tips to Summarize Deposition Testimonies
A deposition summary is a reduced version of a long deposition transcript. Deposition testimony is the most crucial part of any litigation. Deposition testimony may be used at trial to impeach a...
Medical Record Retrieval Tips for Busy Legal teams
Often, the ultimate outcome of a case depends on the data contained in a patient’s medical chart. This makes chart review a crucial step in any personal injury or medical malpractice case and other...
Telemarketing Tips For Employers to Streamline Operations
While the COVID 19 pandemic continues its destructive course across the globe, many measures are being taken at all levels to contain the spread of this virus. Employers in all industry sectors,...
CMS Has Announced Section 1135 Waivers to Battle COVID-19
The entire global population is going through extremely trying times with total and partial lock downs and numerous other restrictions put in place to control the raging COVID-19 epidemic....
An Overview of Medical Peer Review for Health Plans
Peer reviews are of different types in healthcare. In a healthcare organization, peer review is used to study physician performance and ensure that providers’ skills are maintained at the highest...
Social Security Benefits Could be Taxed at the Federal & State Levels
As a beneficial program for retired and disabled Americans, Social Security is a much appreciated and successful program. Over 64 million people in America are estimated to be receiving social...
How Medical Case Chronology Is Useful in Personal Injury Cases
A medical case chronology is a summary of all the relevant medical records, provided in a proper timeline. It is a very important document in a personal injury case that clearly highlights all of...
How to Optimize the Medical Record Retrieval Process
Medical record retrieval is an important service for payers that need to collect medical records for risk adjustment programs and quality measurements, and position themselves for positive HEDIS...
Workers’ Compensation Coverage for Dental Claims – What Dentists Should Know
Dental injuries sustained at the workplace may be compensable and would entail a medical record review to understand the nature and extent of the injury. From the point of view of workers’...
Trial Witness Preparation – What Lawyers Recommend
Witnesses and their statements play a key role in proving any legal case - civil or criminal. Thorough preparation of the witness provides more opportunity for lawyers to win the case. Lawyers have...