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Physicians, dieticians, and nutritionists who use integrative medicine need to understand the unauthorized practice of medicine laws and other compliance requirements.

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.

How can integrative psychiatry and integrative behavioral and mental health centers surmount legal challenges to new wellness models?

Creating new paradigms of health and wellness and empowering those paradigms by finding support in the law

Hello. Good morning. Good day. Good afternoon. Buenos Dias. Shalom. Wherever you are. I'm Michael H. Cohen, a healthcare and FDA lawyer. Today's topic is how can functional and integrative [...]

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 [...]

The Stark Law governs what types of referrals doctors can make if they bill for Medicare and Medicaid. The presumption is that that referrals made by a doctor to a designated health service are [...]

Kudos to integrative medicine consultant Glenn Sabin for his bold post on integrative medicine standard of care - suggesting that integrative health should be the standard against which [...]

Digital health advances set healthcare law on edge because health tech develops exponentially while laws grow linearly.

When medical doctors collaborate with other licensed healthcare providers (such as chiropractors) in a multidisciplinary, clinical care or integrative medicine setting, legal risks can arise that [...]

Healthcare fraud remains a broad regulatory category that enforcement authorities can use against the manufacturer or distributor of a healthcare product that raises questions in the minds of [...]

Unlike California, which provides clear guidance regarding legal and enforcement hot buttons for medical spas and integrative care clinics, Massachusetts law requires more digging.

Thanks to Joshua Grossman, MD for a review of Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion in the Journal of the National Medical Association.