7-11-17 Legal Intelligencer article by Lamb McErlane PC partner Vasilios J. Kalogredis, and associate Katherine E. LaDow* The State Board of Medicine (the “Board”) regulates the practice of medicine through the licensure, registration and certification of members of the medical...
Printed in the Chester County Medicine Magazine, Spring 2017 Edition. By: Lamb McErlane PC partner Vasilios J. Kalogredis, Esquire* In today’s ever changing health care environment, I have seen many physicians struggling over the direction they should be pursuing as...
June 6, 2017, Legal Intelligencer article by Lamb McErlane PC partner Vasilios J. Kalogredis, and associate Katherine E. LaDow.* When doctors or health care entities are in the preliminary stages of negotiations relative to a business transaction, they are sometimes...
Lamb McErlane’s Inaugural Health Law Newsletter By: Vasilios J. Kalogredis, Health Law Department Chairman It has been almost a year since I joined Lamb McErlane PC. It has been a seamless transition. I have brought my forty plus years...
The Benevolent Gesture Medical Professional Liability Act, also known as the apology rule, went into effect in Pennsylvania over three years ago, on December 24, 2013. It applies to communications made in any medical negligence action commenced after that date....
Hiring and firing employees requires consideration of multiple legal issues. When an employee is hired or separates from employment, one statute both the employee and employer must consider is the Pennsylvania Wage Payment and Collection Law (“WPCL”) 43 P.S. §260.1...
When dissolving a professional corporation, doing so does not terminate outstanding potential liabilities. Under Pennsylvania law, dissolution of the corporate entity neither eliminates nor impairs any remedy available to or against the corporation or its directors, officers or shareholders for any right...
Depending upon the competitive environment, malpractice insurance climate, and reimbursement situation in a particular locale, many smaller practices are having a more difficult time than larger practices. Indeed, with the proper planning and forethought, larger practices are more capable of...
Legal Intelligencer article by Lamb McErlane PC partner Vasilios J. Kalogredis, and associate Katherine E. LaDow* On March 23, 2010, Section 6409 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law. Section 6409(a) of the ACA required...
By: Vasilios (“Bill”) J. Kalogredis* – Printed in the Legal Intelligencer April 7, 2017. On January 17, 2017 the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) published a Final Rule which revises HHS procedures at the Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”)...
On March 2, 2007, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission issued an Order (Docket No. M-2016-2517831) resulting from its self-initiated review of the issues relating to the Commission’s existing regulation of Distributed Antennae System Providers (“DAS”) as public utilities. After an...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently confirmed that the HHS OIG Hotline telephone number is being used as part of a telephone scam targeting individuals throughout the country. Scammers are targeting...