In personal injury cases, medical records play a crucial role in establishing the extent of injuries, determining liability, and calculating compensation. By thoroughly analyzing medical records, attorneys can understand the full scope of their clients' injuries,...
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Workers’ Compensation Insurance – Can Penalties / “Fixes” Improve the System?
Workers' Compensation (WC) ensures medical treatment, payment during the recovery period, compensation payment for permanent disability resulting from the work injury as well as job retraining for...
Requesting Medical Records Relevant to Your Case
Medical evidence is important in litigation, helping to clearly reveal the actual medical aspects of a case. Medical malpractice attorneys, personal injury lawyers, and lawyers practising in other...
Wakeup Call to Lawyers – Are You HIPAA-compliant as Business Associates of Covered Entities?
More than four out of ten US customer data breaches occur in the healthcare sector, according to a report by the ITRC (Identity Theft Resource Center) in 2013. The health sector has to report...
SSA to Restore the Mailing of Social Security Benefit Statements
In April 2011, the Social Security Administration (SSA) had stopped mailing the annual Social Security benefit statements to beneficiaries as part of budget cuts. The good news is that this...
Patient Medical Records are an Important Factor in Assessing SSD Claim Process
Medical records are indeed crucial when it comes to winning a social security disability case. The extent of the plaintiff's disability can be proved only with the appropriate medical evidence. What...
COLA Increase for Social Security Beneficiaries in 2014
The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced a 1.5% increase in Monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for approximately 63 million Americans in 2014. The 1.5%...
Medically Unnecessary Treatments on the Rise in the US
Are all the treatments provided to patients in hospitals medically necessary? Studies tend to prove otherwise. Along with wrong medications and surgical errors, unnecessary treatments also account...
How Secure is Your Patients’ PHI? The EHR Privacy Dilemma Continues
Is the transition from paper patient charts to electronic records happening too fast? There is a growing fear among patients, physicians and privacy advocates that security measures cannot...
Medical Identity Theft on the Rise
The latest threat in the healthcare scenario that is seemingly on the rise is medical identity theft. It involves the use of an individual's name and identity proof to obtain medical...
Summarizing Medical Records
When summarizing medical records, it is necessary to ensure that the summary contains all important data contained in the records. Inferences as to what is significant should be based on the major...