I’m Michael H. Cohen. I’m founding attorney at Cohen Healthcare Law Group. We provide legal strategies and solutions to businesses that accelerate health and wellness.

In today’s video, I’ll talk about navigating legal boundaries for anti aging and functional medicine practices. I love anti aging and functional medicine. I use it myself, and I’m aware that these practices and businesses are in a constantly evolving legal landscape, from complex to complex. regulations to innovative treatments, providers and businesses face unique challenges.

And  Today I’m going to talk about three strategies to help manage legal risk.

First of all, developing clear patient consent forms is essential. Consent forms should outline the scope and nature of treatments, ensuring that patients understand anything that’s super risky or even experimental.

Recently we had this clinic offering hormone therapy, and they sought our guidance to refine their consent process. And what we did is really help them detail the risks and benefits and the alternatives so the clinic could help the patients make better informed choices while reducing liability risk. of poor informed consent.

Second, compliance in marketing and advertising is crucial. Many anti aging services and functional medicine practices tread this line with claims. One provider was using stem cell therapy, and they came to us to review advertising materials, ensuring that these met FDA and FTC guidelines.   And what we had to do is really look at every claim against previous enforcement letters in the area to ensure that they didn’t cross a line but were aggressive enough to make really good claims.

And third, it’s important to consult health care attorneys who understand the different parameters of every state. Because the law has changed and if you’ve got a multi state business, you need to clarify what’s permissible across states.

So recently we had a provider or a business offering IV therapy and they wanted to expand their services but they weren’t sure about the scope of practice and it differed a lot. If you’re operating in the anti aging or functional medicine fields, remember that one legal misstep could put everything at risk.

Don’t gamble with compliance.

Consult a health care attorney, an FDA attorney, a firm that specializes in this to help you work through the nuances of the law and build a business and a practice that are both compliant and legally safe. Proper legal guidance is crucial so you can avoid issues down the line.

If you’d like to dive deeper into any of the topics we’ve talked about today, reach out to us. Click below. We’d love to talk to you. We look forward to it.