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Hot Topics In Employment Law 2006 with Attorney Shay Zeemer
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Shay Ellen Zeemer practices litigation and counseling in Labor and Employment Law at the Powell Goldstein office in Atlanta, Georgia. Her practice includes representing management in employment discrimination lawsuits in various state, federal and administrative jurisdictions, including race, sex, disability, family and medical leave, and other discrimination claims. This podcast interview discusses the hot topics in employment law right now; what areas listeners need to pay the most attention to over the next year; unique employment issues do medical practices face; do small practices really need to worry about employment laws; the sense that everyone just "gets along" in a small office; discrimination and sexual harassment; what steps a medical practice needs to take to minimize employment risks; and what every-day steps can a medical practice take to make sure it stays on the right side of the employment laws?
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Hot Issues for Hospitals - and What that Means for Physicians
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Jennifer Bever, FACHE, the Director of Education for Sg2 discusses hot issues for hospitals and the impact of these issues on physician and physician practices. In this 20-minute podcast, Ms. Bever covers Medicare payment reductions and surgical services, pay-for-performance, projected physician workforce shortages, what makes physician-hospital partnerships successful, and very specific strategies on how physicians can work more effectively with hospitals. Jennifer Bever also discusses when and how physicians should "do it themselves."
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Interview with Ron Rosenberg, President of Practice Management Resource Group
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President/Founder of the Practice Management Resource Group. They discuss the business side of medicine, more sophisticated patients, customer service, the difference between primary care and sub specialties, working with doctors, consumer driven health care, the importance of teaching physicians-in-training the art of communication, health saving accounts, transparency and how patients will choose physicians in the future, electronic medical records, having the physician involved in understanding the business through some basic and fairly simple processes, and practice marketing.
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Avoiding Leasing Pitfalls
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Avoiding Leasing Pitfalls by Karen Zupko and Melissa Lupella: This editorial explains some of the most common misunderstandings in the leasing process, such as types of leases, rentable vs. usable space, escalations, and other considerations.
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Long Term Disability Insurance and the Physician Practice
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In this 20-minute podcast, attorneys Jason Newfield and Justin Frankel from Frankel and Newfield, Attorneys at Law discuss the meaning of "dual occupation" in the claims process, the importance of specialty language, common misconceptions about the specialty letter, the definition of residual claims and why they matter, opportunities and pitfalls to backdating of claims, and the major misconceptions surrounding group disability policies, private policies and association policies.
www.frankelnewfield.com
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