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As the pandemic hopefully winds down, there will be changes to the ability to use and bill for telehealth services. Our lawyers explain the latest developments.

Telemedicine needs to increase access for seniors, people in remote areas, chronically ill patients, and the poor – all while meeting privacy, security, unauthorized practice of medicine, and [...]

Regulatory compliance and business transactional review of digital health companies and practices including telemedicine, medical software, health hardware, and the IoT.

Veterinary practices are subject to most of the regulations human medical practices are subject. The rules that govern veterinary practices do differ though because animals are different than people

A case study and FAQs for medical practices who are considering using telemedicine to provide medical services in addition to or in place of in-person consultations.

The current status of rules and regulations for telehealth services, mHealth regulations, cross-state licensing, online prescriptions, and informed consent

The current status of rules and regulations for telehealth services including Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement requirement, credentials and privileges, and what services are not considered [...]

Developers are working on new AI programs that enhance, support, or enable telemedicine. New uses include diagnostic tools and online tools that have legal compliance pitfalls

Mitigate Legal Quagmires While Digital Health Opportunities Expand Your Healthcare Practice and Business by Following These Core Legal Rules

The healthcare industry is a complicated, multi-trillion-dollar gargantuan and require that a healthcare law firm deploy its specialized knowledge across multiple domains.

In response to the public health emergency created by the novel coronavirus, various agencies such as the DHHS and FTC are announcing new compliance rules.

California, New York, and doctors everywhere need to understand what state laws apply to telemedicine including who can offer telemedicine, what consents from the patient are needed, and whether [...]

Doctors need to understand what laws apply to telemedicine including who can offer telemedicine, what consents from the patient are needed, and whether prescriptions require an in-office visit.

Physicians who treat mental health services and substance abuse need to understand the federal and state laws they must comply with. Medical Doctors who provide telemedicine services need to know [...]

Not understanding how and when California’s medical advice requirements can lead to criminal charges and medical discipline. What defenses may be available

Establishing the physician-patient relationship is often a requirement of state telemedicine law, but what does it mean that the physician has in fact “established” the physician-patient relationship?

Telemedicine offers a lot of promise for both physicians and patients. For doctors, it offers another source of revenue – new patients. Telemedicine can mean lower expenses as well because [...]

The first step in evaluating how laws impact veterinary medicine is to understand what telemedicine means. Telemedicine during veterinary practice (also known as tele-veterinary practice) can [...]

Telemedicine laws are increasingly permissive, as more and more states understand the value of providing healthcare services online instead of through brick-and-mortar.

Healthcare ventures between entrepreneurs and medical risks create legal risks of corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting. In this article, learn 3 keys to navigating these healthcare [...]

PRIVACY, CONFIDENTIALITY, AND SECURITY ISSUES ARISE WHEN PRACTICING TELEHEALTH OR TELEMEDICINE JUST AS THEY DO IN A BRICK-AND-MORTAR PRACTICE. IT’S ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THESE [...]

HOW DO HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS HANDLE STANDARD OF CARE ISSUES WHEN DIAGNOSING AND TREATING FROM A DISTANCE?

THE LAW HANDLES TELEMEDICINE PRESCRIPTION DIFFERENTLY THAN DIAGNOSING AND TREATING REMOTELY. HOW CAN YOU BEST COMPLY? PRESCRIBING IS DIFFERENT THAN OTHER TREATMENT

BECAUSE TELEHEALTH AND TELEMEDICINE OFTEN INVOLVE PRACTICE ACROSS STATE LINES, HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS MUST UNDERSTAND THE STATE LAWS WHICH ALLOW PRACTICE IN SITUATIONS WHERE THE HEALTHCARE [...]

Healthcare providers who move beyond a brick-and-mortar physical practice often find themselves in a legal gray zone, wondering whether they are compliant, or even what rules might apply. This [...]

As telemedicine has exploded into many forms – tele-dermatology, tele-gerontology, tele-counseling, tele-psychiatry, and other areas of medicine and healthcare – we’re also seeing [...]

A FEW YEARS AGO, TELEMEDICINE AND TELEHEALTH BURST ON THE SCENE, IMMEDIATELY CHALLENGING ESTABLISHED LEGAL FRAMEWORKS BUILT AROUND BRICK-AND-MORTAR PRACTICES. The novelty forced healthcare [...]

We know telemedicine is expanding, but are telemedicine prescription and distant diagnosis allowed under any given state legislative scheme? Sometimes the art of lawyering is the art of [...]

Will artificial intelligence (AI) replace or augment professional human functions such as the analytical prowess and advisory skill of a talented attorney, as machine intelligence evolves, and [...]

Are pets like humans under telemedicine laws and regulations? As telehealth laws continue to expand to accommodate telemedicine practices, more and more practitioners are jumping on the [...]

Pundits prognosticate, but how do we measure a future for healthcare when every trend morphs asymptotically?

Learn how to rock concierge medicine laws by answering some key concierge medicine legal questions.

Arkansas has a enacted statute encouraging telemedicine use. In Arkansas, SB 133, designed to "encourage the use of telemedicine," advises all state agencies to evaluate and amend their policies [...]

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 [...]

Internet prescribing has been the bad boy of telemedicine, lagging behind telemedicine rules for medical practices generally; is this about to change?

The Medicare Originating Site Fee is a perk for provision of telemedicine services. State law also may provide its own rules. Let's look below at federal law and then California law.