What We Do
The Doctor’s Lawyer provides exceptional service to existing and new clients with our experience practicing law thanks to the leadership of Aaron Proulx, Esq.
Consulting
Bullet-Proof Your Office and Billing Practices
The liability insurance industry is looking for certain red flags in your practice by which to argue that you have a financial bias and that the defense has the right to discover your trade secrets. We diminish exposure to these arguments with our services listed below:
Updating Your Charges
You want your charges to be high enough to provide satisfactory reimbursement for your services, but not so high that they raise a red flag. We help you update charges to arrive at the happy medium you want.
Vetting Your Cases
Some patients have poor cases on which you cannot recover satisfactory reimbursement for your services. We vet your cases to ensure that you are not performing medical services in situations where you will not receive satisfactory reimbursement.
CREATING NEW CONTRACTUAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH YOUR PATIENTS
Recent case law necessitates restructuring the legal relationship between the medical provider, patient, and plaintiff law firm. We revise your contracts or draft new ones.
REVISING YOUR NEW-PATIENT FORMS
The liability insurance industry is looking for certain items in new-patient forms. We help update your new-patient forms to avoid unnecessary disclosures.
CREATING NEW CONTRACTUAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH THIRD-PARTY PURCHASERS OF YOUR ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE
Some medical providers sell their accounts receivable to third-party purchasers. The liability insurance industry is looking for certain language in these sale agreements. To avoid unnecessary disclosures, we revise your standard agreements, draft new ones, or review and revise agreements proposed by the purchaser.
TRAINING ON THE DOs AND DON’Ts OF DOCTOR’S NOTES, FINAL REPORTS, AND TESTIMONY IN DEPOSITIONS AND AT TRIAL
Protecting a medical bill in a personal injury case requires a medical provider to effectively and ethically support a personal injury patient’s case. To do that, medical providers need to know what to include and exclude from records and how to testify in a deposition and at trial. We train medical providers in all these aspects of the personal injury cases. Equally important are the corporate representative depositions that the defense takes to attack the medical bills. We train medical providers and their corporate representatives in all these aspects of personal injury cases.
Representing You in Litigation
Protect Your Trade Secrets to Maximize Recovery on Your Charged Amounts
We cannot entirely block the liability insurance industry from obtaining records and taking depositions. We can ensure that in responding to records requests and providing depositions, you disclose as little trade secret information as possible. We accomplish this by:
INSTRUCTING YOUR STAFF HOW TO RESPOND TO RECORDS REQUESTS AND SUBPOENAS FOR DEPOSITION
When your office receives discovery requests, your staff can contact us to determine which documents you must produce and which are subject to trade secret protection. This preliminary step will prevent your staff from (1) violating discovery rules by failing to make required disclosures and from (2) accidentally disclosing trade secrets.
FILING MOTIONS FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER
When your office receives discovery requests that seek your trade secrets, we file a motion for protective order to ensure that you have not waived your right to trade secrets protection. This motion is always updated with the most current cases in this constantly evolving niche area of law.
NEGOTIATING DISCOVERY RESTRICTIONS WITH DEFENSE COUNSEL
After the motion for protective order is filed, we work with defense counsel to reach an agreement on the scope of discovery we will allow. Having command of this niche area of law means that any agreement we reach with defense counsel will be favorable to your practice. In addition, this saves your practice money by avoiding court hearings.
ATTENDING HEARINGS TO OBTAIN COURT-ORDERED RESTRICTIONS ON DISCOVERY
When we cannot reach agreement with defense counsel, we seek protection in the courts. The court hearings are presided over by some of the same judges that invited us to co-author the section of the Handbook (discussed above) on this niche area of law.
DEFENDING YOU AT PHYSICIAN AND BILLING REPRESENTATIVE DEPOSITIONS
We defend both physician depositions and billing representative depositions (for both physician practices and surgery centers). We restrict defense counsel from obtaining any information beyond the agreement or court order.
NEGOTIATE YOUR BILLS WITH PLAINTIFF LAW FIRMS TO MAXIMIZE YOUR SHARE OF LITIGATION PROCEEDS
Sometimes the resolution of your patients’ personal injury cases, whether by settlement or verdict after trial, does not result in adequate proceeds to compensate all medical providers involved in the case. In that scenario, you negotiate with plaintiff law firms to determine the amount you will recover for your services. We advise in that negotiation or handle the entirety of that negotiation for you.
Any Questions?
Frequently Asked Questions
We have been leading in this niche area of law since 2008. We take pride in the strong relationships that we have built.
We are uniquely qualified to represent medical providers who treat patients in personal injury litigation.
To schedule a consultation, please fill out the form or contact us by phone or email. We look forward to working with you.
We never charge for initial consultations.
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346 Bailey Court
Palm Harbor, FL 34684 - (813) 486-7321
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Hours of Operation
- By Appointment
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