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  • Message From the Chairman
  • Evaluating Competency, Handling Incompetency
  • Red Flags Rule, HITECH/HIPAA Obligations, and RAC Audits
  • Incompetency: Reporting and Coverage
  • Impairment from Alcohol and Cocaine Impacts
  • Competency Reviews and Discussions
  • Calendar of Events - Upcoming Seminars
  • Message From the Chairman
  • A "Watchful Eye" on ROP
  • OMIC's Claims Frequency Holding Steady
  • Providing Care When Disaster Strikes
  • Patient's Finances Alters Evaluation and Treatment of Penetrating Globe Injury
  • Differential Diagnosis: Develop and Disclose It
  • Calendar of Events - Online Courses, CD Recordings, Upcoming Seminars
  • Message From the Chairman
  • Assuring Safe Passage Through the Healthcare System
  • OMIC Expands Regulatory Protection for Policyholders
  • Changes to Your OMIC Policy for 2010
  • Preoperative, Intraoperative, and Postoperative Deficiencies in Care of LASIK Patient
  • Tracking Referrals and Test Results
  • Calendar of Events - Online Courses, CD Recordings, Upcoming Seminars
  • Message From the Chairman
  • When Patients Become Difficult, Hostile, or Violent
  • OMIC Declares 2010 Dividend
  • Reporting Malpractice Claims to the Government
  • Personal Relationship with a Physician-Patient Clouds Judgment on Documentation
  • Duty to Warn Patients Not to Drive
  • Calendar of Events - Online Courses, CD Recordings, Upcoming Seminars
  • Message From the Chairman
  • Facials, Fillers, and Physicians: Keeping the "Medi" in Medi-Spa
  • OMIC, AAO Urge Use of Updated Patient Information Materials
  • Coverage for Medical Spa Liabilities
  • Cosmetic Treatment by Technician Results in Fine and Suspended License for Medical Director
  • What May I Safely Delegate?
  • Calendar of Events - Online Courses, CD Recordings, Upcoming Seminars
  • Message From the Chairman
  • Premium IOLs Come of Age
  • OMIC Educational Alliances Expand Nationally
  • Coverage for Use of Premium IOLs
  • Case Work-Up Results in Denial of Patient's Cataract Claim
  • Refunds, Fee Waivers, and Indemnity Payments
  • Calendar of Events - Online Courses, CD Recordings, Upcoming Seminars
  • Message From the Chairman
  • Twenty Years of Insuring Refractive Surgery
  • New Chairman to Lead OMIC
  • Ensure Coverage for Your Refractive Surgery
  • Lack of Informed Consent and Failure to Review Topographies
  • Reduce Your Risk of a Refractive Surgery Claim
  • Calendar of Events - Online Courses, CD Recordings, Upcoming Seminars
  • Message From the Chairman
  • Wrong Eye, Wrong IOL, Wrong Patient
  • Lipo-Dissolve No Longer Covered
  • Coverage for Investigations
  • State Medical Board Equates Wrong Powered IOL Implant With Wrong Site Surgery
  • Identify and Manage Preoperative Causes of Wrong IOL Placement
  • Calendar of Events - Online Courses, CD Recordings, Upcoming Seminars
  • Message From the Chairman
  • Hidden Costs of Non-Traditional Revenue Sources
  • Coverage for Legal Costs of Regulatory Investigations
  • Coverage for Non-Traditional Services
  • The Duty of an Ophthalmologist Who Is Not On Call
  • Services Provided as an Independent Medical Examiner or Expert Witness
  • Calendar of Events - Online Courses, CD Recordings, Upcoming Seminars
  • Message From the Chairman
  • Using Claims and Incident Reports to Predict the Future
  • Why Are Dilating Drops in the News?
  • Coverage On-Call
  • Elderly Patient Falls from Wheelchair Following Dilation
  • Warn Patients About Side Effects of Dilating Drops
  • Calendar of Events - Online Courses, CD Recordings, Upcoming Seminars
  • Message From the Chairman
  • What a Difference Two Decades Make
  • Holiday Closure
  • Medical Record Corrections and Alterations
  • Conflicting Consent Forms Force a Settlement In Case of Hypopigmentation
  • Medical Record Requests
  • Calendar of Events - Online Courses, CD Recordings, Upcoming Seminars
  • Message From the Chairman
  • My Doctor Never Told Me That Could Happen
  • OMIC Makes Consent Forms More Physician-Friendly
  • Who Can I Talk To?
  • Off-Label Use of ICG Dye During Vitrectomy for Floaters
  • Obtaining Consent on the Day of Surgery
  • Calendar of Events - Online Courses, CD Recordings, Upcoming Seminars
  • Message From the Chairman
  • Honesty the Best Policy When Things Don't Go Well
  • A.M. Best Upgrades OMIC's Financial Strength Rating to A
  • Apologies and Insurance Coverage
  • Risks and Benefits of Writing Off a Patient's Bill
  • Refunds, Fee Waivers and Payments
  • Calendar of Events - Online Courses, CD Recordings, Upcoming Seminars
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OMIC Digest, Summer 2009 Volume 19 Number 3
 

OMIC Digest, Spring 2009 Volume 19 Number 2
 

OMIC Digest, Winter 2009 Volume 19 Number 1
 

OMIC Digest, Fall 2008 Volume 18 Number 4
 

OMIC Digest, Summer 2008 Volume 18 Number 3
 

OMIC Digest, Spring 2008 Volume 18 Number 2
 

OMIC Digest, Winter 2008 Volume 18 Number 1
 

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OMIC Digest, Spring 2007 Volume 17 Number 2
 

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