Legal

This month's Legal Eagle column explores the legality of terminating an employee for inappropriate conduct outside the workplace.

This month's Legal Eagle column explores what information is required during an informed consent discussion.

List prices of 450 medications have increased 5% overall at the beginning of 2023. More price hikes are expected.

As practices grow and become more intimately involved in patients’ complete health care — including regimens of sleep, nutrition, lifestyle, and even wearables — there is more room for lapses, errors or disagreements that pose questions suitable for lawyers.

Your practice’s finances are the key to long-term business success and understanding them doesn’t have to feel like a puzzle.

This month's Legal Eagle column reviews how a patient tried to sue for battery due to excess swelling after dermal fillers.

This month's Legal Eagle column explores a scenario of marketing vs. misrepresentation.

Choosing an investment adviser can be an extremely important decision for the long-term financial security of any clinician.

In this month's Legal Eagle column, David J. Goldberg, MD, JD, reviews a lawsuit case regarding employee termination.

In this month's Legal Eagle column, David J. Goldberg, MD, JD, discusses a case involving a dermatologist performing plastic surgery.

In this month's Legal Eagle, David J. Goldberg, MD, JD, discusses a legal situation involving an oculoplastic surgeon and a covering physician.

In this month's Legal Eagle, David J. Goldberg, MD, JD, writes about a difficult legal case involving metastatic melanoma and mole mapping.

In this month's Legal Eagle, David J. Goldberg, MD, JD, writes about the legal burden of having a chaperone during skin exams.

Dermatology has enjoyed one of the lowest litigation rates among medical specialties, but recent findings presented at the 2022 American College of Mohs Surgery Annual Meeting caution that mounting risks relating to procedural dermatology and cutaneous oncology could change that.

“Given the difference in state taxes, the bottom-line difference for the physician could be in 6 figures—every year! Compounded with even a conservative growth rate, this could mean millions of dollars of difference over a career.”

“Dermatologists are not in violation of FDA statutes for prescribing the off-label use of prescription drugs.” See what David J. Goldberg is discussing in this month's Legal Eagle.

Fixed-annuity guarantees more income for penalty-free early withdrawals from retirement plans.

In this month's Legal Eagle, David J. Goldberg, MD, JD, dives into a case of amount for fees charged for medical records.

CBD is still a gray area for many pharmacists and health care providers.

In this month's Legal Eagle, David J. Goldberg, MD, JD, discusses the legal complexities of incorrect medical coding.

After 10 years women’s median earnings are 9% less than men’s.

Just 14.3% of hospitals complying with rule meant to encourage consumer price shopping

We sit down with the experts to determine what legal and tax factors come into play when deciding on the best corporate structure for a dermatology practice.

Both legal and tax factors come into play when deciding on the best corporate structure for a dermatology practice.

In this month's Legal Eagle, we dive into a case of a potential OSHA violation at a practice.

In this month's Legal Eagle column, David J. Goldberg, MD, JD, discusses why sexual assault complaints must be made public, even if the defendant is found not guilty.

A new study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine finds compliance remains lacking a year after federal price transparency rules went into effect.

In this month's Legal Eagle column, David J. Goldberg, MD, JD, discusses coding and billing in physician practices.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has led to telehealth expansion, the question remains which expansions should continue.