Healthcare Law

Healthcare providers who move beyond a brick-and-mortar physical practice often find themselves in a legal gray zone, wondering whether they are compliant, or even what rules might apply. This [...]

Are you a non-physician who wants to "partner" with physicians? Learn how the Medical Services Organization (MSO) model can help buffer you against regulatory risk. Understand the basics of [...]

Many physicians, chiropractors, and other healthcare practitioners are wanting to start a cash-based, concierge or functional medicine practice yet not run afoul of legal and regulatory issues

Are you planning to break away from your current employment to form your own medical or healthcare practice? Be sure to understand some of the insurance legal basics.

A FEW YEARS AGO, TELEMEDICINE AND TELEHEALTH BURST ON THE SCENE, IMMEDIATELY CHALLENGING ESTABLISHED LEGAL FRAMEWORKS BUILT AROUND BRICK-AND-MORTAR PRACTICES. The novelty forced healthcare [...]

Informed consent is critical in all areas of medicine; it takes on added importance with integrative medicine, functional medicine, anti-aging and aesthetic medicine, and non-mainstream [...]

An MD, DO, or chiropractor wants to set up a health education website legally—without running undue compliance risk. The MD, DO, ND, chiropractor, or other licensed healthcare professional [...]

Michael H. Cohen has pioneered the field of legal issues in integrative health. He served as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Adjunct faculty at Harvard School of [...]

Can indigenous healing systems resolve complex, modern clinical problems such as trauma and PTSD? Answering this question, as part of a larger inquiry into integrative medicine, psychiatrist [...]

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 [...]