Healthcare Law

The Board of Chiropractic Examiners in California has adopted new regulations for the use of lasers in chiropractic

The California Medical Board has adopted regulations pursuant to California law, allowing healthcare practitioners who are licensed in states outside California, to offer healthcare services in [...]

Dietary supplement manufacturers, medical device manufacturers and distributors, and makers of cosmetics should have legal review of their website advertising and marketing claims for Federal [...]

Now I've heard it all - two dogs in a pet therapy program with hi-tech names. Want to guess? They are called "Twitter" and "Blackberry."

The California Medical Board has announced another physician arrest for regulatory violations involving prescribing.

Telemedicine laws continue to define online health ventures, but meanwhile industry expands robotic telemedicine options.

Medical doctors as well as non-physician clients frequently ask our healthcare legal team about including non-medical personnel, such as licensed estheticians, in a practice that combines [...]

Branding your medical spa, longevity center, or anti-aging clinic raises legal and regulatory challenges that a skilled healthcare attorney can help you navigate

Our healthcare attorneys recently advised a business venture that wanted to brand a medical spa or anti-aging clinic in California, as the first of a nationwide series of medical clinics.

Entrepreneurs who fail to properly take into account legal and regulatory issues before opening a longevity and anti-aging medical clinic or health education (or telehealth / telemedicine) [...]

Healthcare reform—aka “Obamacare”—changes much of the financial, tax, and insurance landscape for healthcare. However, it leaves huge swathes of healthcare law untouched.

Health care reform will continue with a myriad of legal and regulatory changes over the next few years.

In National Federation of Independent Business, et al. v. Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al., the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the so-called “individual mandate” in [...]

If you have a dietary supplement or any product for that matter, be sure you have substantiation for your claims. Complying with substantiation legal rules is part of dietary supplement / FDA and [...]

With HIPAA compliance enforcement on the rise, it's no wonder medical practices are wondering what they can do to help protect the privacy and confidentiality of their patients.

What if everyone wore mobile wireless devices, but some nefarious parties could somehow send signals and interfere with them? This dark scenario was brought to my attention in an article [...]

Off-label marketing by Merck of its pain-killer, Vioxx, resulted in a $950 million settlement for violation of marketing laws

HIPAA legal and regulatory compliance can help healthcare entities, such as doctors' office, mitigate liability risk. However, compliance must include strong HIPAA policies, procedures, and forms [...]

The California Medical Board, in its recent newsletter, provides an explanation of language it uses in disciplinary investigations and enforcement actions against physicians