When a healthcare
practitioner hires a healthcare attorney, lawyer, he/she is actually exposed
from two sides, if the attorney is not skilled in the practitioner’s areas of
need; first, from the initial issues, associated with the case that brought the
practitioner to seek a healthcare attorney to begin with; i.e., whether the
practitioner needed to hire a
compliance attorney, a peer review attorney, a credentialing
attorney, a DEA attorney, a fraud attorney, a National Practitioner Data Bank
attorney, a Medicare attorney, an OIG attorney, or any other aspect of
healthcare law attorney; and second, the mistakes that the ill equipped
attorney commits when attempting to fix the initial issues.
Explained here are a few
mistakes that one should avoid when hiring a lawyer –
Never consider a lawyer who
promises you the moon. The sole purpose of such hyperbolic advertisements and claims is
to fetch money from the people, who are seriously in need. Instead of going
with the hyperbolic claims, weigh the experience of the attorneys whom you may
hire and consider the individual experience of the lawyer who will be
responsible for your case. It would be sensible to skip hiring the firm that
projects itself as bigger than other law firm in your city or state. Only a
couple of attorneys at most will be working on your case so it does not matter
how big the firm is.
Never go with the lawyer
that promises low fees. You get what you pay for in this world. If
you would fall into a consultation with a lawyer who says that he/she has the
lowest fees, you know they are the one that should be AVOIDED. Their fees may
be low because they do not have other work or no experience.
If you have not been
asked anything related to your case and background, you can consider changing
your lawyer. For instance, if you are a doctor, then only a specialist lawyer for doctors can
assist you in your case. However, any attorney who has handled such cases could
be a dependable choice
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