Business Law

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 [...]

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

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.

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

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

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

PRIVACY, CONFIDENTIALITY, AND SECURITY ISSUES ARISE WHEN PRACTICING TELEHEALTH OR TELEMEDICINE JUST AS THEY DO IN A BRICK-AND-MORTAR PRACTICE. IT’S ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THESE [...]

HOW DO HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS HANDLE STANDARD OF CARE ISSUES WHEN DIAGNOSING AND TREATING FROM A DISTANCE?

THE LAW HANDLES TELEMEDICINE PRESCRIPTION DIFFERENTLY THAN DIAGNOSING AND TREATING REMOTELY. HOW CAN YOU BEST COMPLY? PRESCRIBING IS DIFFERENT THAN OTHER TREATMENT

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Can healthcare and other startups creatively use Terms of Use to limit liability and Contract with Customers, creating clear expectations that manage their relationship with the end user?

California, like other states, makes online tracking of personal information disclosures required in website privacy policies.

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

A benevolent AI (artificial intelligence) could usher in utopia... but will augmented intelligence destroy it?

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.

Energy drinks, like dietary supplements promising energy boosts, weight loss, and other benefits, raise significant FDA legal challenges; how can manufacturers avoid the barrage of FDA and state [...]

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?

Wearable health technology is here, creating new legal and regulatory questions about who owns the data, whether HIPAA applies and protects the privacy of your quantifiable self.

If you have a dietary supplement or any product for that matter, be sure you have substantiation for your claims. Complying with substantiation legal rules is part of dietary supplement / FDA and [...]

Off-label marketing by Merck of its pain-killer, Vioxx, resulted in a $950 million settlement for violation of marketing laws

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 [...]