Adaptogens and FDA/FTC Compliance

Many companies are making and selling products with herbs and other adaptogens that claim to relieve stress and need to understand the FDA regulations that regulate drugs and dietary supplements.

Integrative Medicine and Nutrition – Compliance Issues

Physicians, dieticians, and nutritionists who use integrative medicine need to understand the unauthorized practice of medicine laws and other compliance requirements.

How can integrative psychiatry and integrative behavioral and mental health centers surmount legal challenges to new wellness models?

How can integrative psychiatry and integrative behavioral and mental health centers surmount legal challenges to new wellness models?

Medicine and Spirituality

Interview with a practitioner in the area of integrative medicine, functional medicine, holistic healthcare regarding spirituality in Medicine

Should Integrative Medicine Legal Standards Drive Physicians’ Risk Management Practices?

Physicians who incorporate complementary and alternative medical (CAM) modalities into their practice, or brand themselves as using integrative medicine, functional medicine, or similar [...]

FEE-SPLITTING 101 FOR MDS AND OTHER INTEGRATIVE HEALTH PRACTITIONERS

Is it fee-splitting to hire another medical doctor, chiropractor, acupuncturist, or other health care practitioner in your office and give them a “cut” of patient revenues? Fee-splitting, [...]

FON CONSULTING THE EVOLUTION OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE LAW AND WHAT THE FUTURE PORTENDS

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 [...]

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

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

Integrative medicine standard of care: an evolving legal rule

Kudos to integrative medicine consultant Glenn Sabin for his bold post on integrative medicine standard of care - suggesting that integrative health should be the standard against which [...]

Legal risks arise in Interdisciplinary MD-DC practice, challenging Integrative Medicine model

When medical doctors collaborate with other licensed healthcare providers (such as chiropractors) in a multidisciplinary, clinical care or integrative medicine setting, legal risks can arise that [...]

4 Legal Tips for Setting Up A Functional Medicine Practice

Here are 4 legal tips for setting up a functional medicine practice. When establishing your functional medicine practice, you'll be wading into clinical waters that are perhaps navigated by many [...]

Alternative Medicine Fraud Remains an FDA Staple, Despite FDA Guidance on Low-Risk, General Wellness

Healthcare fraud remains a broad regulatory category that enforcement authorities can use against the manufacturer or distributor of a healthcare product that raises questions in the minds of [...]

These 3 integrative medicine legal trends can make or break your integrative medicine practice

Integrative medicine is morphing from an extension of complementary medicine and/or intrusion into conventional care, into everyday prevention and wellness. Find out how three integrative [...]

Michael H Cohen participates in Leadership Program in Integrative Health

Michael H Cohen will be presenting Legal Issues In Integrative Healthcare for The Leadership Program in Integrative Healthcare at Duke University.

Is personalized medicine future healthcare?

No sooner had the ink dried on my post, Telemedicine: The Medicine of the Future, than some blogger pronounced telemedicine the "medicine of the past." There, by a stroke of the pen, someone [...]

Joint Commission Includes Complementary Therapy Approaches in Pain Management Standard

The Joint Commission, which accredits and certifies more than 20,500 health care organizations and programs in the United States, has revised its pain management standard to include complementary [...]

Is it fee-splitting for medical doctors to share revenues with non-medical business owners?

"I provide medical (or acupuncture, chiropractic, osteopathic, massage) services on an hourly basis and get paid a percentage of revenues in return.” Is that fee-splitting?

Can Integrative Medicine Be Made Clinically Responsible, Ethically Appropriate, and Legally Defensible?

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.

Key Legal & Regulatory Trends in the Trillion-Dollar Healthcare Market for the New Year

If you think Obamacare is the most important story in regulation of healthcare, you're missing these key trends that will shape the medicine of 2015 and beyond. Remember that technological [...]

5 Legal Issues for Integrative Health Practitioners in the new year

With 2015 right around the corner, here are 5 legal and regulatory issues that integrative health practitioners need to know.

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