1) Debt Collection Issues
If a medical practice has difficulty collecting on owed debt that affects their cash flow and ability to pay their staff and other expenses. Most debt collection companies charge very high fees to collect debt. Our services include from 5-15 debt collection letters per month with no out of pocket costs for the letters and most importantly no money owed to LegalShield when the Dental office is able to collect on the debt.
2) Unlimited Legal Phone Consultation
This is huge for the Dentist, office manager and HR staff. Most importantly it is convenient and does not interfere with work flow. If the physician or decision maker has a question they simply pick up the phone and speak to an attorney. No time is lost leaving the worksite to meet in an attorney’s office. In addition, some of our medical groups have some limited access to an attorney for large scale legal decisions. Most agree with that there are 100’s of reasons each day that a business owner, office manager or HR staff would want to call an attorney but the number 1 reason they do not is because of the cost. These decisions and choices that they make everyday can have both a positive or negative impact on the business depending on if they are quality decisions. Having unlimited access to an attorney for those day to day decisions is huge.
3) 2-5 Designated Users
What is especially beneficial is that the business can designate from 2-5 users of the service. Meaning the physician, office manager, HR staff or other key decision makers can all have access to their questions being answered with no additional out of pocket costs per user.
4) Contract and Document Review
Reading the fine print of contracts can be challenging. Lease agreements and contracting agreements are the types of documents being reviewed. Having a lawyer review these types of documents before decisions are made can save time and money.
5) Compliance and Changing Regulations
The goal is to help the Dental groups stay in the safe zone related to ever changing regulations: HIPAA, Employee Handbooks, new EOC pay data rules, work place violence policies, and dress code policies.
6) Employee Challenges
Hiring/ Firing legal assistance and employee rules and regulations
7) Legal Correspondence Letters or Phone Calls on the Business's Behalf
In times of dispute or concern having an attorney write a letter or make a phone call can often mitigate those disputes or concerns in a timely and equitable fashion. There are no additional out of pocket costs for the business to have between 20- 40 initial letters or phone calls made on the clients behalf.
8) Will, Living Will, Health Care Power of Attorney Documents
Physicians are successful people who need to have a Will and basic estate planning documents. Our family plan is often used to help the Dentist get these documents completed.
9) ID Theft
This is a growing concern for both the physician and the staff. We have a comprehensive plan that includes use of private investigators and a five million dollar service guarantee.
10) Employee Benefits
When employees are focused on the everyday stressful situations that occur in their lives they are less focused and productive at work. Traffic tickets, child custody and separation issues, Identity theft and unfair treatment from merchants are just a small list of the concerns that keep employees distracted. Having our family services offered to employees has been shown to help employees stay productive and less stressed. Less stress is associated with a savings of about $200/year in health care dollars for each employee. The program has not out of pocket costs to the employer and can never be used against the employer both during the time of employment or after the employee has left.
Learn more by visiting their website at www.legalshield.com.
