Healthcare Law

The Daily Journal, California's largest legal news provider, published Future of Medicine is Just a Tap Away, by healthcare & FDA attorney Michael H. Cohen.

Recently a physician called me, raving about HCG for weight loss, letting me know he recommends HCG to all his obese patients, because he lost over 150 pounds on HCG. "The scientific evidence is [...]

Neurofeedback has been shown effective for treating of a variety of physical and mental disorders, but can or should neurofeedback (or any promising therapy that can be self-administered, or [...]

If you want to know how not to offend the FDA and FTC sequentially, here's an instructive lesson about a company that has gotten a big regulatory bruise.

How do you wear two licensed hats at the same time - if, for example, you're an medical doctor (MD) and a chiropractor (DC), or a chiropractor and an acupuncturist - or, a naturopathic physician [...]

Even if HIPAA doesn't technically apply to your wearable tech venture, mobile medical app, or telemedicine project, state laws have mirror privacy and security provisions with which your company [...]

The Medicare Originating Site Fee is a perk for provision of telemedicine services. State law also may provide its own rules. Let's look below at federal law and then California law.

Sales of dietary supplements by physicians, acupuncturists, chiropractors, and other licensed professionals raise thorny legal issues.

How can integrative medicine be made "clinically responsible, ethically appropriate, and legally defensible?" I invented the above mantra during my five years on faculty at Harvard Medical School.

Making HIPAA compliance easy is like trying to catch a firefly in your hand. I'm also reminded of those really short video summaries of A Game of Thrones where you get a plot twist a second, and [...]