Author Description

Our Guide is a concise and authoritative employment law manual for managers and personnel administrators in health care facilities, nursing homes, clinics, and medical practices. The Medical Employer's Guide uses an easy-to-read, jargon-free format to keep you abreast of issues confronting today's professional in the health care industry. Highlights of this edition of the Guide include these and others: New telephone service to verify employee Social Security numbers and new iCERT electronic system for foreign labor certifications;Coverage of the H1N1 virus (swine flu) outbreak and disaster readiness;Changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), involving information security breach notification requirements and health insurance enrollment and notice requirements;Recent cases and legislative updates for medical employers, including mandatory overtime, provider conscience regulations, compensation while on-call, physician noncompete agreements, tax exemptions for medical students, and more;Federal Trade Commission (FTC) red flag rules requiring certain businesses, including some medical offices, to respond to the red flags of identity theft;New discussions of serious adverse and never events in health care, improving employee morale, alternatives to layoffs, and electronic contracts and electronic signatures;The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, which generally requires mental health insurance benefits to equal benefits for other medical conditions;Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding reverse race discrimination, age discrimination, Title VII retaliation claims, union organization, arbitration, and more The Medical Employer's Guide focuses on federal laws and contains numerous charts detailing state laws. Each chapter includes citations for the laws discussed. Appendices list state and federal agencies, including Internet addresses.