Healthcare Law

When you practice integrative medicine, do you worry about standard of care? Perhaps you’re developing the latest and most beneficial approach. How do you handle liability risk [...]

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 [...]

Regulation of Clinical Decision Support Software is much clearer now, thanks to the 21st Century Cures Act. Section 3060, entitled Clarifying Medical Software Regulation, amends Section 520 of [...]

If you’re a successful physician, chiropractor, acupuncturist, or other licensed healthcare provider, and you want to provide overflow patients to another practitioner you hire, is it a kickback [...]

Medical school teaches you a lot of science and clinical skills, but it doesn’t prepare you for the “streets” of legal documentation when you sign your physician contract. Even sophisticated [...]

Animal dietary supplement manufacturers and distributors can run afoul of FDA prohibitions against “drug” claims and receive an FDA warning letter, unless they understand how FDA regulates animal [...]

Substance abuse treatment centers must steer carefully when sending patients for labs. Self-referral, anti-kickback, and fee-splitting rules can create legal enforcement issues and must be [...]

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 [...]

If you have a medi-spa where the physician is never there but serves as “Medical Director,” think again. A lot of people misunderstand the concept of “medical director.” A medical director is [...]

Is it illegal for audiologists to dispense PSAPs? More broadly – are disruptive technologies also exploding healthcare professionals’ ability to prescribe or recommend to their patients? I [...]