An organization’s lawyer represents the organization, not any individual who works for it.

A physician publishes “before and after” photographs of a cosmetic surgery patient without the patient’s consent. The patient’s identity can be discerned from the photographs. The physician is potentially liable for:

The contract necessary to form a provider–patient relationship can be express, implied, or inferred.

Of the following transactions, which is the most likely to be considered “ultra vires” if undertaken by a hospital corporation?

Besides saving enough money for the Medicare program, what else does an accountable care organization (ACO) need to do to obtain “shared savings”?

Congress has eliminated the “shared responsibility payment” (i.e. tax penalty) associated with the ACA’s individual mandate.  This statutory change was a key issue in the constitutionality of the ACA in Supreme Court case of

Suppose you have three components in parallel. The first component works with probability , the second component works with probability , and the third component works with probability . What is the probability that the whole system works?

Consider a discrete random variable   which is over a set  of all consecutive integers from 0 to , i.e., over the set {0,1,…,}. Also assume that  the random variable is uniformly distributed over this set. What is ?  

Consider independent flips of a coin, where the probability of heads is . The experiment is to flip the coin until we get our first heads. The random variable is the total number of flips we had to make to get that first heads. What is the probability that the total number of flips is ?

What is the “E” in ATOMATOFLAMES?