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HIPAA Policy & Procedure Manual
Most optometrists are familiar with HIPAA. Few, however, have a comprehensive HIPAA Policy and Procedure Manual, much less one that complies with the final HIPAA Rules which took effect in September, 2013. HIPAA Manuals drafted before January, 2013 are not compliant with the "final" rules. In the event of a patient complaint or an audit by the Office of Civil Rights each "Covered Entity" must have a HIPAA Policy and Procedure Manual. Dr. Steinberg's model HIPAA Policy and Procedure Manual is up-to-date and fully HIPAA compliant. It is 100 pages long and includes all the sample forms you need to meet the HIPAA requirements if you are audited.
Lecturing and Authoring
In addition to practicing both law and optometry over the past 20+ years, Dr. Steinberg lectures regularly on legal issues affecting optometrists to various optometric groups, including most recently, the American Optometric Society, the Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry, and The Power Practice, and the University of Houston College of Optometry. He has also written for numerous optometric journals and periodicals, including Review of Optometry, Optometric Management, and Women in Optometry.
California Optometrist-Optician Relationships
Dr. Steinberg's unique expertise in optometric law extends to the complex relationship of opticians and optometrists in California. Many optometrists and opticians want to work together, but recognize that, in California, their business relationship is highly regulated. Many relationships between optometrists and opticians are precluded by California Bus. & Prof. Code 655. However, as a result of his experience with this complex area of law, Dr. Steinberg is regularly retained to advise and assist optometrists and opticians in developing a working relationship without violating California's strict laws regulating these two complimentary professions.
ATTENTION: A new Bus. & Prof. Code 655 has gone into effect. The new law dramatically alters Optician-Optometrist relations, permitting direct leasing by an optician to an optometrist, subject to very specific rules that must be contained in a WRITTEN sublease agreement. Contrary to common misunderstanding, it does NOT permit an optician to employ an optometrist and does not allow an optometrist and an optician to co-own an office or have a partnership in any form.
If you are an optician wishing to enter into a business relationship with an optometrist, or an optometrist that is working with an optician, Dr. Steinberg now provides with a 655 compliant written sublease and can optionally provide the consulting necessary to comply with the new law and avoid the risk of State Board discipline.
Click HERE for information about purchasing a Model OD-Optician Sublease Agreement that fully complies with the new law, allowing an optometrist to legally lease space from an optician for the first time.