Healthcare Law

Discover essential strategies for HIPAA compliance that every healthcare business needs to implement, covering patient data protection, risk management, and best practices. Insights from Cohen [...]

The FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research conducted a study examining the relationship between disease communications and prescription drug advertising. The results are discussed

Generally, nurses must obtain their state nursing license by having the proper degree(s) and passing a state nursing exam. Nurses can be certified in specialties. EMTs must obtain their [...]

Healthcare licenses generally require that applicants have specific educational degrees and pass appropriate exams. Certifications generally confirm an individual has specialized knowledge. [...]

Healthcare practitioners and healthcare entities can enter into corporate integrity agreements with the OIG (of HHS) to ensure compliance in return for continued participation in federal [...]

The Center for Drug Evaluation (CDER), in 2017, developed an initiative to modernize CDER’s New Drugs Regulatory Program (NDRP). The initiative focuses on scientific leadership, benefit-risk [...]

The Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Protection Act of 2008 regulates how pharmacists can dispense certain controlled substances and how practitioners should comply.

The FDA approved a new Eli Lilly drug, Kisunla, that may help reduce the cognitive decline of Alzheimer’s patients by attacking the patient’s amyloid. The drug is the third FDA-approved drug of [...]

The US Preventive Services Task Force recently recommended that children and teens with a high BMI receive treatment interventions. The US PSTF did not include chronic weight loss medications in [...]

A medical compliance officer should work with a healthcare lawyer to understand the federal and state laws and regulations that govern the medical compliance officer’s medical practice or medical [...]