The author is a health law attorney with Kern Augustine Conroy & Schoppmann in Bridgewater, NJ, Lake Success, NY, and Philadelphia.

Steven I. Kern, JD

Articles

With healthcare fraud now estimated to be a $100-billion-a-year enterprise, the federal government has developed new tools to aggressively pursue fraud.

Viewpoint: Intent not part of healthcare fraud finding

Get your questions answered on handling an outstanding account balance.

Q&A: Withholding medical records

Efforts to thwart the increasing costs of healthcare cannot succeed without addressing the question of how much care to provide the terminally ill.

End-of-life care: Who decides when to pull the plug?

Generally, the cost of writing letters is not included as a covered service under managed care contracts.