What Physicians Need to Know about the Corporate Practice of Medicine
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.
Legal Compliance Issues for American Medical Tourism Health Practices
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
When Healthcare Entrepreneurs & Medical Doctors Collaborate, Corporate Practice of Medicine Legal Issues Rule
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
Physicians Fee-splitting & Nurse Fee-Splitting More Common Than You Realize
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?
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?
Are online call centers illegally practicing medicine or engaging in kickbacks and fee-splitting?
When Chiropractors work with Medical Doctors, fee-splitting issues arise
When Chiropractors work with Medical Doctors, fee-splitting issues arise. This is like Harry met Sally without the New Year's scene.
How Can A Healthcare Clinical Practice Bonus Its Staff, Employees, & Marketing Personnel Without Trigger Fee-Splitting and Anti-Kickback Issues?
Healthcare bonuses raise fee-splitting and anti-kickback issues; is there a workaround?
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?
Dental licensing board’s monopoly power challenged by U.S. Supreme Court
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.
