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
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?
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.
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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?
Key Legal & Regulatory Trends in the Trillion-Dollar Healthcare Market for the New Year
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 [...]
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 [...]
What anti-kickback and fee-splitting legal issues arise when physicians or other healthcare providers lease space?
Many physicians, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and other healthcare practitioners want to know whether they are fee-splitting when they rent a room hourly from a medical practice or other [...]
If someone asks you to be Medical Director, run….
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? [...]
Longevity and Anti-Aging Medicine Legal & Regulatory Issues
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) [...]
