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 weight loss clinics. Why weight loss? It’s a huge area. Everybody wants to lose weight and it can be packaged up with nutrition, physical fitness, medical spas, IV hydration, lots of ways to configure weight loss into the equation.

So, one thing to know is if you’re selling supplements. You’re in the area of FDA law and the supplements have to be labeled correctly. The claims have to be allowable claims under FDA rules, and so your distributor of dietary supplements, you have to comply with FDA dietary supplement rules.

Related to that, on the side of advertising and marketing, you have to make sure that your claims are truthful and not misleading. That’s scenario that FDA regulates. So does the Federal Trade Commission and state agencies with overlapping jurisdiction. So, you’re going to want to have all of your advertising and marketing copy reviewed for compliance.

Thirdly, consent forms as always should be detailed, clearly outlining the treatment, risks, benefits and alternatives. Again good to rely on experienced healthcare counsel. You want someone who’s very experienced, it’s not their first rodeo. And in our firm, we’ve handled so many different configurations of multidisciplinary practices.

We’re really familiar with all of these different areas of law, and it’s not like bankruptcy law or tax law or securities, or you’ve got just one very discreet area of the law. You’ve got consent, HIPAA, IP, malpractice liability, scope of practice, unlicensed practice, licensing facilities.

The list just goes on and on, so you’re going to want to get advice that can be tailored to you but take into account the many different areas of law that you’re going to need to get into in order to get your business launched and continue to thrive.

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.