The North Carolina State Health Coordinating Council (SHCC) has published its draft 2025 State Medical Facilities Plan (SMFP) and all summer petitions and comments have been received. Here's what you need to know about the recent draft and what to expect moving forward.
Loss of earning capacity can be a major element of damages requiring the plaintiff and the defendant to retain vocational experts. By asking vocational experts the right questions, attorneys can expose weaknesses in their reports and opinions. Here are six key questions to ask your vocational expert or an opposing vocational expert, and what you may learn from the answers.
Future medical expenses are often the largest element of economic damages in personal injury cases. The testimony of life care planners for the plaintiff and defendant can greatly influence the jury. Here are nine key questions you should ask any life care planner.
The Governor of Tennessee recently signed House Bill 2269 into law, creating new exemptions for the state’s certificate of need (CON) process and changing existing CON regulations. Here's what you need to know about the recent legislative changes and what to expect moving forward.
The purpose of this Memorandum is to summarize the written discovery rules for expert witnesses under the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure. The memo also describes differences between Louisiana and federal law. As Texas law on expert discovery follows federal law, these are also the differences between Louisiana and Texas law.
Whether you operate a physician practice or clinic, imaging center, ambulatory surgery center (ASC), acute care hospital, or all of the above, it is important to understand how your billed charges compare to the charges of other similar providers in your area. In this blog, we discuss five reasons it is increasingly crucial to know how your charges compare to standard benchmarks.
On April 19th, 2024, the Governor of Georgia signed House Bill 1339 into law. This new law introduces new exemptions to the CON process and modifies existing CON regulations. Here's what you need to know about the recent legislative changes and what to expect moving forward.
What limits does Texas law set on the opinion testimony of a Physician Life Care Planners? In this blog, we discuss those limits, review appellate cases that provide general guidance that an expert’s medical qualifications must relate to the specific medical issue at hand, and further development of Texas laws.
Certificate of Need (CON) requirements vary by state, but most applications must address three main topics: (1) need, (2) financial feasibility, and (3) impact on existing providers. This blog will discuss the data sources RPC finds useful when preparing a CON application. In this blog, we will dive into each component.
On March 24, 2023, Florida House Bill 837, became law. It has an impact on the valuation and recovery of damages for past and future medical care in personal injury cases. HB 837 allows defendants to discover and introduce evidence regarding allowable amounts for commercial insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid which the jury can consider in awarding medical damages.