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In the event of a hurricane or weather event, a good disaster preparedness plan is essential to ensure continued medical care for patients by ensuring...
Medical offices, facilities and hospitals must usually accommodate patients with disabilities who use service animals.
The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued this press release on May 9, 2023.
Court cases show that physicians continually underestimate their liability in supervising or collaborating with nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicia...
During the pandemic, covered entities were able to use, whether or not compliant with HIPAA requirements, any type of non-public-facing remote communi...
On December 29, 2022, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 enacted a new one-time, eight-hour training requirement for all Drug Enforcement Adm...
Insureds can log in to manage which third parties have access to certificates of insurance (COI).
A LAMMICO-insured medical clinic sustained a cyber extortion event, involving the ransomware variant Zepplin, resulting in the encryption of six of it...
We encourage you to take time to log in at medicalinteractive.com/login to view these and other online educational activities that are complimentary f...
This series of articles will discuss each of the four implementation specifications of the HIPAA Security Rule Access Control Standard, beginning with...
At its core, palliative care is about helping patients and their families live as meaningfully as possible with serious illness.
The following are legal issues that have surfaced repeatedly in recent months and may be of interest to our insureds who could encounter them.
Engaging patients in their own care can increase their compliance with healthcare recommendations, help them deal more calmly with medical uncertainti...
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Center for Clinical Standards and Quality published a memo on workplace violence in hospita...
As we close the celebration of our 40th year, we'd like to share 40 reasons that our insureds and employees love LAMMICO.
Forbes recently predicted the five most important healthcare trends of the coming year.
A list of 10 high-priority safety practices to help healthcare organizations address diagnostic errors was published in the November issue of The Join...
New sentinel event data has been released by The Joint Commission to help accredited organizations mitigate and prevent future harm to care recipients...
Congratulations to the recipient of the 7th Annual LAMMICO Patient Safety Award and Grant: Bienville Surgery Center in Vancleave, Mississippi.
The 2022 legislative session included six significant scope bills, 38 anti-vaccine bills, four noncompete bills, two medical malpractice bills, one an...
LAMMICO has promoted John Dildy, MBA, JD, LLM, to succeed Burmaster as General Counsel.
The duties of a medical director are exposures typically not covered by an individual’s medical professional liability insurance policy.
Congratulations to the recipient of the 6th Annual LAMMICO Patient Safety Award and Grant: St. Bernard Parish Hospital in Chalmette, Louisiana. The 20...
LAMMICO has developed a new Members Only resource that is populated with the Louisiana Medical Disclosure Panel forms with the list of procedures and...
