I Use an Informed Consent Form?
204. What If the Patient Refuses to Consent?
206. Can I Provide Care That the Patient Wants But I Do Not Think Is Indicated?
207. Did I Commit Malpractice? What is the Standard of Care?
208. I’m a Volunteer Dentist, Donating Dental Services. Do the Same Rules Apply?
209. Are There Legal Issues to Consider When I Make a Referral?
210. How Does the Law Regulating Self-Referral (Stark Law) Affect My Dental Practice?
211. When Might the Stark Law Apply?
212. How Could the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute Affect My Practice?
Chapter 29: Thorny Patient Treatment Issues
213. Do I Have to Hire Sign Language Interpreters for Hearing Impaired Patients?
214. Who Pays for the Interpreter? I’d Lose Money If I Have to Pay.
215. Must I Provide Foreign Language Interpreters?
216. Do I Have to Allow Service Animals (Such as Seeing Eye Dogs) in the Operatory?
217. Do I Have to Allow Motorized Wheelchairs in My Dental Practice? What About Segways?
218. Are There Laws Prohibiting Discrimination Against Patients Who Are Part of a Protected Class?
219. Must I Treat Patients With HIV, HCV, or Other Infectious Diseases?
220. Can I Ask a Patient If He or She Has Any Infectious Diseases — HIV in Particular?
221. What Are the Rules About Managing an Obese Patient?
222. How Do I Handle a Drug-Seeking Patient — One I Suspect May Be Calling Around for Prescriptions?
223. How Can I Learn More About My Responsibilities in Regard to Infection Control?
225. What Should I Do If a Patient Leaves My Practice in the Middle of Treatment Against My Advice?
Chapter 30: Terminating the Relationship
227. I’m Closing My Practice. What Must I Tell My Patients? How and When Do I Tell Them?
1. Checklist of Questions to Ask When Forming a Group Practice
2. Buy-Sell Agreements (Background)
3. Sample Employee Associateship Agreement
4. Sample Independent Contractor Associateship Agreement
7. Sample Website Development Agreement
8. HIPAA Business Associate Checklist
9. Selecting an EHR Program for Your Dental Practice
10. Service Animals in the Dental Office
11. Sample HIPAA Business Associate Agreement
12. What Did the U.S. Supreme Court Decide in North Carolina State Board v. FTC (2015)?
Introduction
Chapter 1: How to Use This Book
Chapter 4: The ADA Legal Division
Chapter 1.
How to Use This Book
A wide array of legal issues confronts dentists and their dental teams during the course of their day-to-day practices. Sometimes these issues involve particularly thorny questions about practice management or patient care. This book is here to help. It provides basic legal information on questions that oral health care practitioners have about their practices.
No book could possibly cover every dental legal issue. The topics covered here are those that dentists have frequently asked us over the years.
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