Are online call centers illegally practicing medicine or engaging in kickbacks and fee-splitting?
Are online call centers illegally practicing medicine or engaging in kickbacks and fee-splitting?
Is it a kickback when med center offers insurance agent services to its patients?
Is it a kickback when a medical center offers insurance agent services to its patients?
In Corporate practice of medicine, Healthcare Law, Management Services Organizations (MSO) Agreements
Posted Corporate practice challenges medical management (MSO) organizations in New York AG action
Corporate practice challenges medical management (MSO) organizations, especially in New York AG, as shown by recent enforcement action.
Your Medical Spa Fire Physician or Physician Sue Medspa for Breach of Contract
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?
Physician-Lab Agreements to Provide Exclusive Lab Services and Waive Patient Fees Could Be Kickback, OIG Advises
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' [...]
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Packaging medical services – is it a legal concierge arrangement, or an illegal kickback?
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?
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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?
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Are you handling licensing, corporate practice of medicine, fee-splitting, standard of care, informed consent, HIPAA, liability, advertising, contract, FDA issues in your telemedicine venture?
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 [...]
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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.
Do online coupons for discounts to physician and other clinician services violates Stark, anti-kickback and fee-splitting laws?
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 [...]
