Healthcare Law

The private practice of medicine increasingly is disappearing or morphing into concierge medicine, direct pay, or practice through giant health systems, reports the Los Angeles Times.

Wearable technology legal and regulatory issues can sidetrack your wearable tech venture, unless you're savvy about navigating the legal landscape. Wear your wearable tech on your sleeve - not [...]

As medicine moves from Physical, to Virtual, to Mobile, to Wearable, to Implantable, new privacy legal issues arise, bringing legislative attention.

The AMA now supports telemedicine, but insists on "safeguards" to help ensure the best patient care. While the AMA Policy on Telemedicine does not focus on legal issues, the telemedicine policy [...]

The FDA provides guidance for pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers as to how to present risk and benefit information for their medical devices and products on social media.

Many healthcare ventures seek to avoid corporate practice of medicine (or psychology) and fee-splitting violations, but they need to first understand how deeply down the rabbit hole these [...]

Here is a quick summary of federal self-referral ("Stark law") and anti-kickback law, and California self-referral and anti-kickback / fee-splitting rules. Each state has its own laws, of course.

While Medicare reimbursement for telemedicine has garnered a lot of attention, many states also have extensive laws about telehealth reimbursement. For example, California laws provide for [...]

Medicare pays an originating site fee, spurring telemedicine for Medicare recipients, but many facilities do not know how to find the rules or whether they are eligible. Medicare rules are [...]

How do you market an emerging healthcare practice, without running afoul of regulatory walls, from federal and state advertising law to licensing laws, and the law governing unfair business practices?

Neurofeedback, biofeedback, EEG, hypnosis, Reiki, energy healing ... how do practitioners evaluate, and handle, malpractice liability risk? Do they have obligations of informed consent? What [...]

Neurofeedback, biofeedback, EEG, hypnosis, Reiki, energy healing ... how do practitioners evaluate, and handle, malpractice liability risk? Do they have obligations of informed consent? What [...]

Is the practice of neurofeedback legally safe as part of another professional practice such as clinical psychology?

Who can legally practice neurofeedback—only licensed professionals—and what laws govern neurofeedback practice?

Neurofeedback, EEG, biofeedback entrain your brain, but are they legally safe practice? What do consumers and practitioners need to know? This 5-part series examines neurofeedback laws, including [...]

Many physicians, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and other healthcare practitioners want to know whether they are fee-splitting when they rent a room hourly from a medical practice or other [...]

The American Medical Association (AMA) approved guiding principles to ensure appropriate coverage of and payment for telemedicine services. During its 2014 Annual Meeting, the AMA voted to [...]

How can integrative medicine physicians collaborate with chiropractors, without triggering unnecessary patient liability, medical board discipline, or other legal exposure for fee-splitting, [...]

Florida's Standards for Telemedicine Practice and Standards for Telemedicine Prescribing Practice are now effective. There are four new Florida regulations

Many physicians are dissatisfied with their medical practice and wonder whether they can legally open a side online health and wellness business--be it online health and wellness coaching, [...]