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Wade Emmert
Part I: What’s Going On? Handling Licensing Board Investigations from Complaint to SOAH Hearing
This is a four-part series on Handling Licensing Board Investigations from Complaint to SOAH Hearing. In preparation for this series, I talked to several of the…
Telehealth Expansion in Texas
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many patients and practitioners to find new ways to connect. The most obvious tool is telehealth, the use of audio-visual platforms to…
Can a Professional Limited Liability Company Own Another Professional Limited Liability Company?
Answer: Yes, a PLLC can own another PLLC provided it has the correct ownership and is formed for the same purpose as the PLLC it owns.…
Top Ten Health Law Myths
I have been practicing health law for more than 25 years and have had the benefit of working with a lot of healthcare providers. My clients…
The Shocking Truth About Neurostimulators and the Government’s Efforts to Recoup Payments
For much of the past decade, peripheral neurostimulator devices have been used liberally by some practitioners to treat chronic pain. In addition to pain relief, any…
The Facts About Medical Factoring
One of the immutable truths about healthcare is that it can take a long time to get paid. Though Texas has a prompt payment statute,10 it…
Texas-Sized Pitfalls for Med Spas
Med spa growth across Texas and the nation continues to increase. The American Med Spa Association (AmSpa) found in 2018 that there were 5,431 med spas…
Hospice, home health agency and owners pay over $1.8M to resolve claims concerning physician payments
The founders of an Edinburg hospice and related home health agency have paid $1,847,279.36 to resolve allegations they submitted claims to Medicare that resulted from unlawful…
2020 Health Antitrust Year in Review
The federal antitrust enforcement agencies brought three hospital merger challenges and three criminal antitrust enforcement actions in health care in the past year. Combined with the…
Improper Billing of “P-Stim” Devices is Focus of Recent FCA Settlements
Improper billing for electro-acupuncture using a “P-Stim” device (or peri-auricular stimulation device) has been the subject of two False Claims Act (FCA) settlements already in 2021,…