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Naturally, like any other business model, augmenting one’s clientele may be a priority for medical and other healthcare practitioners. Is it legal to offer coupons and discounts?

Doctors need to understand the laws and regulations that apply to the way they bill for services, work with insurance companies, submit claims to the government, enter into business relationships [...]

MSOs (medical services organizations), or physician management and marketing companies, routinely come to us for legal advice about how to create and run an MSO profitably, in a compliant way, [...]

Today’s legal strategy sessions involved a healthcare business that is really a healthcare practice in disguise. Let’s look at what legal strategy lessons we can learn here.

Many aspects of healthcare are now becoming integrated. Medical practices that used to specialize are now trying to broaden their services by contracting with other medical providers who provide [...]

You’re a licensed medical doctor, happy in your aesthetic medicine or plastic surgery practice, and you’re working part-time with a medical spa in a way that is increasing your income without [...]

Growing Pains in Your Healthcare Practice or Healthcare Venture? We’ve had many clinical practices and healthcare ventures come to us asking how to mitigate risk of anti-kickback and [...]

An RN who is working on getting her NP recently called our law firm, asking whether he was engaging in illegal “fee-splitting” in her compensation arrangement with a physician. Physician [...]

Do retrospective physician bonuses violate anti-kickback laws? Well they are problematic.

Are online call centers illegally practicing medicine or engaging in kickbacks and fee-splitting?

Is it a kickback when a medical center offers insurance agent services to its patients?

Corporate practice challenges medical management (MSO) organizations, especially in New York AG, as shown by recent enforcement action.

A physician called our law firm, complaining that the management company had "embezzled" funds from the account for the medical doctor's clinic. What should he do?

The federal Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reviewed a laboratory's proposal to enter into agreements with physician practices to provide all laboratory services for the practices' [...]

If you're a medical doctor, dentist, acupuncturist, chiropractor, or other licensed healthcare provider, and you offer your patients "9 sessions, get 1 free," have you violated kickback laws?

"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?

When you launch any virtual, electronic, online, mobile, or other non-physical telemedicine or telehealth venture, you have to navigate several interlocking, overlapping legal issues, from [...]

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

Many online ventures want to know whether Stark, anti-kickback, and fee-splitting laws are violated by business arrangements that offer online coupons or Web-based coupons to customers. Let's [...]

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 [...]