Can HIPAA Compliance Derail your Healthcare Website or Digital Health App?

Worried about HIPAA compliance for your healthcare website or digital health app? Consider a class action privacy lawsuit that came—and went—against MDLive. MDLive received a class-action [...]

TELEMEDICINE LEGAL SERIES—PART 5: HIPAA

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 [...]

7-PART TELEMEDICINE LEGAL SERIES—PART 4: STANDARD OF CARE ISSUES

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

TELEMEDICINE LEGAL SERIES—PART 2: LICENSING ISSUES

BECAUSE TELEHEALTH AND TELEMEDICINE OFTEN INVOLVE PRACTICE ACROSS STATE LINES, HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS MUST UNDERSTAND THE STATE LAWS WHICH ALLOW PRACTICE IN SITUATIONS WHERE THE HEALTHCARE [...]

TELEMEDICINE LEGAL SERIES—PART 1: PRACTICE ISSUES

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 [...]

Liability Protection & the Practice of Medicine for Non-Physicians

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 [...]

Concierge or Functional Medicine Practice Legal Issues: An Overview

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

Breaking Away Into Your New Practice and Common Insurance 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.

TELEMEDICINE LEGAL SERIES—CONCLUSION: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

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 [...]

Avoiding Malpractice Through Strong Informed Consent Practices

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 [...]

How Can An MD Set up An Health Education Website Legally (without compliance nightmares)?

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 [...]

Legal Issues In Integrative And Functional Medicine: History, Licensing, And Tele-Medicine

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 [...]

Walking the Medicine Wheel: A Review

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 [...]

Prompt pay, cash discounts, dual fees legal for healthcare providers (physicians, chiropractors, acupuncturists)? (Part 2)

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 [...]

SAFEGUARDING YOUR LICENSE & AVOIDING MALPRACTICE: STANDARD OF CARE IN INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE

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 [...]

Prompt pay, cash discounts, dual fees legal for healthcare providers (physicians, chiropractors, acupuncturists)?

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 – 21st Century Cures Act Changes FDA’s Regulatory Game

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 [...]

Independent contractor physician – kickback or compensation?

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 [...]

Avoid These 8 Common Legal Mistakes Before Signing Physician Agreements

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 beware of FDA warning letters

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 [...]