Can Medical Offices Go Corporate?

Medical offices can go corporate, transitioning from physician-owned practices to entities managed by corporations, private equity groups, or healthcare management companies. While this shift can [...]

How Mergers and Acquisitions Affect Employees

Medical practices and companies who merge with or acquire another practice or company need to understand and plan for how the transaction affects the rights, benefits, and concerns of their employees

5 Challenges in Healthcare Mergers: Lessons for Small Clinics to Expand Reach

In the dynamic landscape of the healthcare industry, mergers have become an increasingly common strategy for small clinics looking to expand their reach and improve operational efficiency.

Securing Your Practice: How to Navigate Compliance Challenges after an Asset Purchase Agreement

Navigating the complex landscape of medical practice post-Asset Purchase Agreement (APA) can be challenging, especially when it comes to ensuring compliance.

Guidelines for Soliciting Reviews from Patients

The Federal Trade Commission guidelines for when and how physicians can and can’t seek solicitations from their patients, employees, and business contact.

Legal Keys Every Medical Doctor Must Know Before Merging With or Acquiring A Medical Practice

If you plan to acquire a medical practice or any healthcare venture, consult a healthcare and FDA attorney who understands the specific legal and regulatory landscape

Kickbacks, Fee-Splitting, Corporate Practice of Medicine, Stark, MSOs: Guiding Healthcare Ventures through the Maze

Fundamentally, you’re worried about legal rules prohibiting kickbacks, fee-splitting, corporate practice of medicine, as well as Stark law; you don’t know whether the MSO or management structure [...]

Corporate Practice of Medicine on Steroids: How Your MSO and Professional Medical Corporation Could Work Together Without Courting Legal Disaster

You, MSO is my own variation on I Claudius. Poor Uncle Claudius, everyone said. Ended up becoming Emperor of Rome. Through craft and careful strategy. So you have an MSO and want to operate [...]

Prompt pay, cash discounts, dual fees legal for healthcare providers (physicians, chiropractors, acupuncturists)? (Part 2)

Are prompt pay, cash discounts, dual fees legal? In this Part 2, let’s focus on differential payment schemes. When physicians, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and other healthcare providers [...]

Prompt pay, cash discounts, dual fees legal for healthcare providers (physicians, chiropractors, acupuncturists)?

Are prompt pay, cash discounts, dual fees legal? There are lots of questions and many different variations. Let’s explore a few, focusing on the idea of providing differential services to a [...]

Physician Advertising of Medical Services: Avoiding 5 Legal Traps

When medical doctors advertise their professional medical services (including online advertising) they can easily run afoul of legal and regulatory traps. Watch out for these 7 legal traps in [...]

Digital health advances set healthcare law on edge

Digital health advances set healthcare law on edge because health tech develops exponentially while laws grow linearly.

Virtual reality in medicine and health will deepen our access to Spirit

Virtual reality in medicine and health will augment and expand our sense of reality - yet it's only a harbinger of deeper access to consciousness.

Packaging medical services – is it a legal concierge arrangement, or an illegal kickback?

If you're a medical doctor, dentist, acupuncturist, chiropractor, or other licensed healthcare provider, and you offer your patients "9 sessions, get 1 free," have you violated kickback laws?

AMA Warns “Don’t Let Business Associates Create HIPAA Mess”

HIPAA legal and regulatory compliance can help healthcare entities, such as doctors' office, mitigate liability risk. However, compliance must include strong HIPAA policies, procedures, and forms [...]