In today’s dynamic healthcare landscape, practitioners face many challenges, including the ever-present threat of malpractice lawsuits. Like other healthcare professionals, optometrists must navigate complex legal terrain to protect their practices and reputations. In this blog post, we’ll delve into the importance of legal services in minimizing malpractice risk, providing actionable insights to empower optometrists in safeguarding their practices.
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Healthcare Legal Services: Safeguarding Your Practice
In the complex healthcare landscape, legal services are crucial in ensuring compliance, mitigating risks, and safeguarding the interests of healthcare providers and organizations. Legal professionals like Michael V. Favia & Associates, P.C., in Chicago, Illinois, are indispensable, from regulatory compliance to litigation defense. Explore why healthcare legal services are essential and how they can benefit your practice.
Read more...The Benefits of Choosing a General Practice Law Firm
In Chicago, the Favia Law Firm is a highly reputable and versatile general practice law firm committed to providing comprehensive legal services, covering a broad spectrum of legal areas, including healthcare law and professional practice, personal injury, estate planning, real estate transactions, and business contracts. The Favia Law Firm is dedicated to personalized attention, ensuring that each client’s unique needs are understood and cared for.
Read more...Healthcare Consulting in Chicago: The Health Practice Advisors Team
The Health Practice Advisors Team Offer Highly Specialized Knowledge and Relationships Health Practice Advisors is a group of experienced and well-respected healthcare professionals and providers growing and promoting their practices. The team of healthcare practitioners and closely related professionals in the Health Practice Advisors group are some of the best in the business of healthcare […]
Read more...Preparing Healthcare Facilities for COVID-19 Coronavirus
Medical experts are saying they expect there still may be a spike in positive COVID-19 Coronavirus cases. This being a new pathogen, there is much yet to be learned through research and testing. Meanwhile, your healthcare facility is at risk of being inundated with sick patients with little patience for a lack of ventilators and other medical equipment need to test for and treat their symptoms.
Read more...Physician Liability, Handwriting, and Recordkeeping Impacting Medical Malpractice Cases
“Physicians’ bad handwriting or incomplete recordkeeping on paper or on EMR’s can lead to hot water both civilly in a medical malpractice suit as well as being disciplined professionally by a state medical disciplinary board.” Chicago IDFPR, Medical Malpractice Attorney Michael V. Favia
Read more...Michael V. Favia is Listed Among Peer Selected Leading Lawyers for 2019
Fewer than five percent of all lawyers in Illinois are selected through the peer review process to be recommended and named among the list of Leading Lawyers published annually. Skill, experience, and reputation in the practice of law are recognized by fellow attorneys who cast their vote for the best attorneys they know and trust.
Read more...Avoid Medical Board Discipline for Prescribing Opiates
Michael V. Favia Defends Illinois-Licensed Physicians and Healthcare Professionals Prescribing Opiates In representing and defending Illinois physicians before the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Responsibility (IDFPR), IDFPR attorney Michael V. Favia is acutely aware of the challenges faced by doctors prescribing opiates. A former Chief of Prosecution for the Department, Favia has been on […]
Read more...HIPAA for healthcare in private practice
HIPAA for healthcare in private practice HIPAA healthcare practice consultant Marion Neal focuses on how private healthcare practitioners and administrators can manage their HIPAA compliance efforts by building a system and integrating compliance tasks into the regular business process, however that process may function in each private practice. HIPAA for healthcare in private practice, […]
Read more...Medical mistakes: Physician liability & discipline
Medical mistakes: Physician liability & discipline Medical mistakes, according to popular news sources, may be the third largest leading of death in the U.S. Why are medical errors so prevalent? Is there a culture among physicians in which errors are covered up or not questioned? In a new Fox television series, “The Resident,” a […]
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