Hi, 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, we’ll talk about legal strategies for mental health professionals. Mental health. Mental health providers face a lot of issues.

There’s a shortage of mental health providers, but still, some people call it Sue, SA, not USA. So we want to look at some issues.

So first of all, patient confidentiality: HIPAA. If it isn’t HIPAA, there’s some state law that’s likely going to be parallel. So, security: secure electronic records, protecting PHI (Patient Health Information). Building trust, having that in place is essential.

Second, we’ve talked a lot about informed consent. Poor informed consent can be a ground for a malpractice lawsuit. So you want to have great informed consent forms.

And third: licensing requirements. They just, they’re all over the map, there’s so many different mental and behavioral health providers, and you want to take a look at the scope of practice because providers want to get into a lot of different therapies. We want to make sure that the state licensing law isn’t so restrictive and so limiting that there isn’t room to maneuver.

So that’s going to require a careful healthcare attorney eye, and that’s what we do.

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.