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HFA Board Changes Renewal Requirements

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By: Barclay Wong The Indiana Board of Health Facility Administrators issues licenses for Indiana’s health facility administrators.  All skilled nursing facilities must employ a health facility administrator as its leader.  Health facility administrator licenses expire on August 31, 2022.  Every licensed health facility administrator… Read More >

Protect Yourself from Material Construction Price Increases

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By:  Alexander Trueblood Owners, developers, contractors, subcontractors, and others in the construction industry have become all too familiar with dramatic increases in the price of certain construction materials since the COVID-19 pandemic began disrupting global trade in early 2020. While the prices for many… Read More >

Apparent Agency Principles Addressed Again by the Indiana Supreme Court in Arrendale vs. American Imaging & MRI, LLC, et al. And How This Affects Non-Hospital Health Care Entities

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By: Janet McSharar According to a recently issued Indiana Supreme Court decision, non-hospital health care entities will be held vicariously liable for the actions or inactions (negligence) of independent contractors and so the non-hospital health care entities should consider becoming qualified providers under the… Read More >

Update: Supreme Court Holds that Indemnity Claims of Health Care Providers Against Independent Contractors are Not Subject to the Medical Malpractice Act or its Two-Year Statute of Limitations

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By: Melanie A. Kalmbach On March 8, 2022, the Indiana Supreme Court overruled the Court of Appeals’ holding in Lake Imaging, LLC v. Franciscan All., Inc., 171 N.E.3d 619 (Ind. Ct. App.)[1] and determined that indemnity claims by one health care provider against another… Read More >