New York City defense attorneys are often critiqued—sometimes ridiculed—for just doing our job. Those who want to “hang ‘em in the streets” criticize us for setting criminals loose on the population. The people we defend can’t believe we charge for our services. Cops always try to prevent people from talking to us, and television shows […]
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Supervision Requirements Have Chilling Effect on Medicare Participation
Medicare billing can be a perilous, low-return, high-risk endeavor, with rules that sometimes seem less than logical and can readily trap the uninformed. Take, for example, the question of whether Medicare will reimburse post-doctoral clinical psychologists for psychotherapy services. Psychotherapy is a reimbursed service when it is provided by clinical psychologists. These “Psy. D’s,” as […]
READ MORECA 4th on Return of Property in Medical Marijuana Case
A big hat tip to Greg at the California Blog of Appeal who notes an important medical marijuana return of property case:City of Garden Grove v. Superior Court, G036250. In a nut shell, as Greg says, the Court of Appeal denied a writ petition by the City of Garden Grove (joined by 4 law enforcement associations […]
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