Every state Medicaid managed-care plan across the Southeast requires a Certificate of Insurance (COI) on file within 30 days of contract effective date, and none will release first payment until ...
Under most Southeast collaborative-practice agreements, the supervising physician's malpractice policy extends to the NP/PA as a "named additional insured" as long as the practice is disclosed on the application at ...
For clean submissions with clean 5-year malpractice loss runs, most medical office programs bind within 5 to 10 business days. Certificates of insurance are issued within 24 hours of binding, ...
Yes. Needle-sticks are a compensable occupational exposure under workers' compensation in every Southeast state. Workers' comp pays for the initial ER visit, HIV/HBV/HCV post-exposure prophylaxis, follow-up serology testing (typically 6 ...
The threshold varies by state: Louisiana requires workers' comp with just one employee (La. R.S. 23:1035), North Carolina and Georgia at three employees, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee at five employees, ...
A claims-made policy covers claims reported while the policy is active. When the policy ends, a "tail" (extended reporting endorsement) must be purchased to cover claims reported later for prior ...
The current Southeast minimum for a small physician practice is $1M per event / $2M aggregate on a stand-alone cyber policy — not the historical $250,000 sub-limit tucked inside a ...
Most Southeast states do not impose a blanket statutory malpractice-coverage mandate on every licensed physician. However, virtually every hospital privileging committee, Medicaid managed-care payer contract, and commercial office lease requires ...
Yes — absolutely. Cloud-EMR vendors like Athena, Epic, and eClinicalWorks carry their own cyber coverage, but that policy protects the vendor, not the covered entity. Under HHS OCR guidance, the ...
Across the Bridgeway seven-state Southeast footprint (MS, AL, LA, FL, TN, NC, GA), a solo or small-group physician practice pays between $4,200 and $34,000 per year for a full medical ...
