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:

  • Large academic medical centers
  • Community hospitals
  • Specialists' offices
  • Primary care practices
  • Home care agencies
  • Corporate office for network of nursing homes
  • 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
  • Outpatient cancer hospital in Singapore

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