Legal Services from Carolyn Buppert

Advice for medical practices, hospitals and academic institutions on

  • Getting third-party reimbursement for physician or nurse practitioner services
  • Avoiding charges of improper billing of physician or nurse practitioner services
  • Evaluating and altering business structure
  • Negotiating and drafting contracts

Legal documents for for-profit and non-profit corporations

  • Contracts - managed care contracts, vendor contracts, service contracts, employment contracts
  • Corporate documents
  • Trademark applications
  • Tax-exempt status applications

Advice for individual clinicians

  • Negotiating, drafting and reviewing contracts
  • Starting a new business
  • Business consultations
  • Systems for efficient use of nurse practitioners in health care systems
  • Systems for
    • Training clinicians on billing and coding
    • Avoiding malpractice
    • Complying with Federal rules in billing nurse practitioner services

Presentations to medical/nursing groups on

  • Avoiding malpractice
  • Reimbursement for nurse practitioner services
  • Avoiding fraud
  • Negotiating employment
  • HIPAA patient privacy regulations

Recent consultations:

  • A large academic medical center in the East
  • A large nursing school in the West
  • A family practice in Baltimore
  • A specialist's practice in Arizona
  • A conglomerate starting a business in the District of Columbia
  • A private hospital in the Washington area
  • A home care agency in the Washington area
  • A non-profit corporation in Maryland
  • A for-profit corporation in Tennessee
  • A group of nurse practitioners negotiating a contract with a physician practice
  • A physician negotiating an employment contract
  • A nurse practitioner who had been sued for malpractice
  • A nurse practitioner being investigated by a Board of Nursing

How to become a client:

  • Set up a time for a telephone interview.
  • Tell me the problem, or the goal.
  • We agree upon the service I will provide, the fee, and a time-line for payment.
  • I send a letter confirming services to be provided, the timetable and the fee.
  • Sign and return a copy of the letter to me.
  • I complete the project, on the agreed-upon time-line.
  • I bill clients monthly or at the completion of the project.
  • Once enrolled as a client, an individual or company may call me at any time for additional advice or services.


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