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Practice Management

DEA Extortion Scams Resurface in California

A CAP member physician recently called our risk management hotline requesting help with a call from a Washington Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent. The caller demanded that she turn herself in to local law enforcement for writing fraudulent prescriptions and dealing drugs with the Mexican mafia. 

At CAP, We Are Leading Together

In partnership with the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM), we are celebrating Healthcare Risk Management Week! This week brings awareness to the critical role healthcare risk management and patient safety professionals play in improving patient and workplace safety, promoting quality assurance, and minimizing liability exposure for involved clinicians and practices.

CMS Modernization: Telemedicine and Virtual Care

The Digital Revolution has changed and is continuing to change medicine. There are many drivers of these changes: digital/technological advancements, changing demographics, and societal shifts to digitization. In response to this changing landscape, CMS modernized its Medicare physician payment plan and quality reporting program effective January 1, 2019.

Life Insurance Dos and Don'ts

Physicians come out of medical school highly educated and anticipating a career that will be rewarding in every way — including monetarily. Not surprisingly, this makes them perfect targets for people who sell life insurance. But what life insurance agents know that most doctors don’t is that there are a wide range of life insurance products available – and that the most expensive, most profitable products may not be the best ones for every doctor in every situation.

How Much Insurance Do You Really Need? Free Guide Provides Help to CAP Members

As a physician, you handle patient diagnoses with due diligence, taking the right steps to consult with peers, order the right tests, analyze results, and offer the best guidance for safe and effective treatments. Yet, many physicians do not practice the same diligence when safeguarding themselves or their livelihoods.