How do healthcare certification, accreditation, and licensing differ?

Healthcare licenses generally require that applicants have specific educational degrees and pass appropriate exams. Certifications generally confirm an individual has specialized knowledge. [...]

Does a Professional Medical Corporation Prevent Liability?

In today's video, we're going to talk about whether owning and operating a professional medical corporation actually protects the physician or other clinician against liability.

Corporate Integrity Agreements and Exclusions from Medicare and Medicaid

Healthcare practitioners and healthcare entities can enter into corporate integrity agreements with the OIG (of HHS) to ensure compliance in return for continued participation in federal [...]

Modernizing the New Drugs Regulatory Program

The Center for Drug Evaluation (CDER), in 2017, developed an initiative to modernize CDER’s New Drugs Regulatory Program (NDRP). The initiative focuses on scientific leadership, benefit-risk [...]

Can an MSO Switch Medical Directors?

In today's video, we'll talk about the role of the medical director in a med spa, or an IV hydration clinic, or integrative medicine center wellness clinic. What happens when a healthcare venture [...]

Compliance Requirements for the Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008

The Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Protection Act of 2008 regulates how pharmacists can dispense certain controlled substances and how practitioners should comply.

Good Faith Exams

So, one of our clients was asking about the good faith exam. Now, does this need to be an actual conversation between the MD and the patient? Or can the patient simply complete the medical [...]

Can an MSO Get Paid More Than Fair Market Value?

In this video, we're going to talk about the MSO and whether it is possible to transfer all the money from the professional medical corporation or practice actually to the MSO. It's like MSO fee.

Can an NP Practice Aesthetic Medicine Autonomously?

In today's video, we're going to look at some rather esoteric rules of physician supervision of nurses and figure out how an aesthetic medical practice by the nurse can navigate, if it can, some [...]

Starting up a Second Medical Corporation

Sally, a licensed MD, is looking to open a second medical practice across the hall from her main practice so that she can focus on niche medical procedures, such as aesthetic medicine procedures.