MEDICAL LEGAL SERVICES

Partners of our firm provide medical legal support services for attorneys in areas such as, but not exclusive to the following:

• Hospital policies and procedures, including compliance with Joint Commission standards
• Hospital and Board of trustee administrative practice standards
• Nursing home administrative practice standards and related policies and procedures
• Physician credentialing issues and non-physician negligent hiring matters
• Administrative Standards of care for specific services including:
  • Trauma service
  • Imaging
  • Emergency Room
  • Pathology
  • ICU
  • Operating Room
  • Cardiac and Pulmonary diagnostic testing
• Physician contract matters such as enforceability of restrictive covenants
• Physician disciplinary issues related to hospital quality assurance procedures and peer review
• Analysis of compliance with physician and administrative employment agreements
• Contract disputes between institutions, payers and providers of service
• Administrative standards of medical practice operations
• Medical compliance issues
• Drug errors
• At-risk patient falls
• Billing and coding disputes
• Determination of enterprise value
• Economic analysis of future practice earnings

(See listing of sample plaintiff and defense cases and recent cases involving deposition or trial testimony).