Integrative & Complementary Medicine

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.

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?

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

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

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: 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?"

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

"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?

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.

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 [...]

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

ON Therapeutics, a consulting firm focused on integrative medicine branding, marketing and strategy, featured Fee-Splitting 101 and related articles on legal and regulatory issues. FON is [...]

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

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

Attorney Michael H. Cohen, President of the Michael H. Cohen Law Group, was interviewed on LA Talk Radio's Legal Help Desk by cyber-lawyer Salar Atrizadeh on the future of health care.

Healthcare & FDA attorney Michael H. Cohen is co-author of "Medico-Legal Issues in Cardiology," published by Cardiology in Review 2013;21:222-228. The article aims to educate physicians about the [...]

An acupuncture student from Northern California wrote in asking the following question about fee-splitting, kickbacks, Stark / self-referral, and group practices.

The FDA believes that ear candles are dangerous and should be regulated as medical devices.In Don't Get Burned: Stay Away From Ear Candles, FDA warns consumers against using ear candles, and [...]