Lidice Porro

Here's something I hear from practitioners all the time:  "My forms are probably fine, I've just never really looked at them." That "probably" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. When you made the leap to private practice, the paperwork was likely the last thing on your list. You started with what was available: a form borrowed from a former supervisor, a template from your EHR, maybe a HIPAA acknowledgment you found online at 11 pm. It worked well enough, so it stayed. But if you're running a...

Direct Primary Care has been inching toward broader federal recognition for years. What has changed recently is not a single sweeping law, but momentum. Lawmakers, regulators, and professional associations are increasingly aligned around one idea: DPC should be treated differently from insurance and should eventually integrate more cleanly with Health Savings Accounts. That shift creates opportunity. It also creates risk for practices that assume their current structure and contracts will...

A new year always comes with new goals: more growth, more revenue, more freedom, and hopefully less stress. But as a business attorney specializing in the "Business of Medicine" and professional services, I see a pattern every single year: Most businesses don’t fail because they aren’t talented. They fail because they aren’t protected. They “meant” to update contracts. They “planned” to tighten policies. They “knew” they should clean up their legal foundation… but then business happened. In...