Healthcare Law

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 [...]

WHEN ESTABLISHING YOUR FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE PRACTICE, YOU’LL BE WADING INTO CLINICAL WATERS THAT ARE OFTEN NAVIGATED BY MANY MEDICAL COLLEAGUES, YET NOT NECESSARILY ADOPTED WITHIN THE MAINSTREAM [...]

FON: When you aren’t managing your practice and giving lectures, you’re practicing yoga. How did you discover integrative medicine and what impact has it had on your early law career and personal [...]

The strange world of the California medical board Fictitious Name Permit inhabits one of those arcane places in healthcare law that many physician clients wonder about. Here's everything you [...]

Do retrospective physician bonuses violate anti-kickback laws? Well they are problematic.

Are online call centers illegally practicing medicine or engaging in kickbacks and fee-splitting?

We know telemedicine is expanding, but are telemedicine prescription and distant diagnosis allowed under any given state legislative scheme? Sometimes the art of lawyering is the art of [...]

When Chiropractors work with Medical Doctors, fee-splitting issues arise. This is like Harry met Sally without the New Year's scene.

While I can't claim Marvin Minsky as a mentor I knew personally, his work did influence me--particularly his suggestion that the us v. them version of humans and robots (or AI) in the movies is [...]

"Medical director" creates enforcement red flags particularly when medical spas or health care ventures award the title willy-nilly. In this post, we discuss legal pitfalls and offer some legal [...]

When leaving a medical practice, can you take patient records?

Integrative medicine advertising legal review: does a flyer need legal review or just "wordsmithing?"

Is there a Moore's law for law? Can healthcare and FDA laws regulate convergent, exponential technologies?

Common HIPAA violations are flagged by HIPAA Helper, a publication of ProPublica,an "independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest."

Can healthcare and other startups creatively use Terms of Use to limit liability and Contract with Customers, creating clear expectations that manage their relationship with the end user?

Functional medicine is rapidly gaining traction (pardon the pun) among chiropractors, but can chiropractors legally practice functional medicine? Let's look at definitions of functional medicine [...]

Is your medical assistant practicing medicine illegally? Understand the difference between medical assistance and medical practice.