Health coaching businesses must comply with state licensing laws, corporate practice of medicine rules, HIPAA, and FTC regulations when offering services. Learn legal strategies to structure your [...]
Nurse practices may consider using a managed service organization (MSO) to address corporate practice of medicine, anti-referral, and other compliance laws
Oncology practices may consider using a managed service organization (MSO) to address corporate practice of medicine, anti-referral, and other compliance laws
California has a strict corporate practice of medicine law. Physicians should consider a professional medical corporation. Doctors need to be aware of Stark Law and the AKS. An MSO may be advisable.
Most states prohibit the corporate practice of medicine but allow for professional medical corporations. The hiring of doctors by hospitals is mostly illegal in California.
Integrative medicine practices need to understand HIPAA, the corporate practice of medicine, Stark Law, the AKS, unauthorized practice of medicine, and many other compliance issues.
Physicians who wish to work in the medical tourism sector need to be careful to separate their medical tasks from their business and marketing tasks and to avoid fee-splitting issues
Jill’s healthcare venture requires her to source a medical doctor (MD) who can collaborate with Jill’s startup to provide a series of innovative healthcare therapies to users
Some of the common questions that come up on health and wellness industry.
Is the corporate practice of medicine a historical anachronism that's going to be done away with over time or even in the very short term?
Stem cell therapies, where chiropractors and medical doctors work together, raise challenges for healthcare lawyers…
Managed Services Organizations help physicians focus on practicing medicine by freeing doctors from many administrative tasks. Failure to consult with an MSO healthcare lawyer can cause civil and [...]
Is the MSO Structure the Answer to Kickback and Corporate Practice of Medicine Concerns in Digital Health and Telemedicine?
Whether your healthcare venture involves digital health, mobile health, or a physical health and wellness center, strong vs. weak corporate practice of medicine prohibitions can be deadly.
If you've invested tens, hundreds of thousands of dollars or possibly even millions into your business, then, of course, you want to be a sensible business person and have a reasonable [...]
Buying and selling a medical practice is much different than selling a commercial business. Due diligence must address special healthcare legal compliance issues, licensing requirements, patient [...]
Not understanding how and when California’s medical advice requirements can lead to criminal charges and medical discipline. What defenses may be available
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, [...]
When Chiropractors work with Medical Doctors, fee-splitting issues arise. This is like Harry met Sally without the New Year's scene.
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?
Can a medical management company or MSO control physicians given corporate of medicine concerns, especially in a strong corporate practice of medicine state? Whether the MSO can control [...]
The Supreme Court case of North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC is, in some ways, a watershed in terms of judicial resistance to monopolization of health care practices by a licensing board.
"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?
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 [...]
The private practice of medicine increasingly is disappearing or morphing into concierge medicine, direct pay, or practice through giant health systems, reports the Los Angeles Times.
There's an old quote that says: "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!" And what if your friendly neighborhood chiropractor asks you to be Medical Director, especially in California? [...]
The Board of Chiropractic Examiners in California has adopted new regulations for the use of lasers in chiropractic
New California law enhances penalties for medical spa owners and operators that violate the prohibition against unlicensed medical practice, raising visibility and adding deterrence. In Part 1 [...]
California law now includes increased penalties for medical spa owners who violate the corporate practice of medicine and engage in unlicensed medical practice.
Medical doctors as well as non-physician clients frequently ask our healthcare legal team about including non-medical personnel, such as licensed estheticians, in a practice that combines [...]
Entrepreneurs who fail to properly take into account legal and regulatory issues before opening a longevity and anti-aging medical clinic or health education (or telehealth / telemedicine) [...]
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