In today’s video, we talk about the slippery slope between practicing medicine, on one hand, and hanging up your physician or psychology or other license hat and doing health coaching, on the [...]
In today’s video, we ask: what are some key legal strategies that a multi-disciplinary health and wellness, mobile platform or app can deploy to handle legal risks?
In today’s video, we address a subscription-model healthcare startup that has the RN or Registered Nurse do the heavy lifting when it comes to signing up patients, visiting them at home and [...]
In today’s scenario, a psychiatrist desires to prescribe ketamine to psychiatric patients for mental health, via telemedicine. The psychiatrist wishes to prescribe across states yet is only [...]
In today’s video, we talk about the thorny question of whether bonusing staff on a per-patient business is legal or legally risky.
In today’s video, we discuss whether acupuncture laws allow remote practice or digital practice by telehealth.
At a surface level this is a story of professional development whose roots go deep into my childhood, the fact that I’m I healthcare lawyer.
Each and every week we get at least several new IV hydration, nutritional therapy and weigh management types of clients coming to us for legal advice.
Clients with medical spas, IV hydration clinics, and health and wellness centers often come to us wondering how to structure their venture with a physician. Sometimes it's the healthcare [...]
In today’s video, we talk about disclaimers for a health coaching website. You might think a disclaimer is a disclaimer is a disclaimer, but there are some nuances.
Many medical spa, IV hydration, and health and wellness center clients call us with this question: can you help us with "entity formation"? Which entity should I use?
We're awash--pardon the pun--in medical spas, IV hydration centers, nurses opening healthcare practices, multidisciplinary centers, and health and wellness groups of all types. This stuff is [...]
Can a chiropractor employ a licensed medical doctor? The question reminds me a tee-shirt I once saw which said: "Can I pay my Mastercard with my VISA?"
Nurses today are asking our law firm what are the upcoming big changes to nursing scope of practice in California from AB 890.
To be or NOT to be a Medical Director. That is the question. Recently we advised a physician who had received a terrific offer to become a medical director. The clinic itself was owned by a [...]
In today’s video, we return to the legal twists and turns of health coaching.
In today’s video, we talk about how a disclaimer can help with you if you’re doing health coaching, even if you’re a medical doctor doing health coaching, chiropractor, psychologist, nursing [...]
In today’s video, we’ll talk about how anti-kickback and fee splitting concerns permeate healthcare arrangements, and some ways to spot arrangements that potentially violate these laws, vs. those [...]
In today’s video, we are going to discuss patient brokering, fee-splitting and kickbacks.
In today’s video, we turn back to the question of physician prescription online, but this time, we will focus on comparing some of the telemedicine laws across different states.
In today’s video, we take a different tack on the question as to whether physician prescription by telemedicine is legal, illegal, or something in the middle. Let’s focus in on controlled [...]
Let's say that you're a telehealth company and you've got some complicated healthcare, regulatory, legal, and compliance questions. You've got HIPAA you're concerned about, but maybe you have a [...]
In today’s video, we talk about whether and how an MSO can operate a medical practice. The key here is, what do we mean by the term, “operate?” Are we talking about the business side, the [...]
What's your story? Why are you doing what you're doing? Why are you devoting so much of your time and energy and breath and resources and late nights thinking about your health and wellness [...]
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In today’s video, we address legal issues and legal risk mitigation for clinical practices that prescribe bioidentical hormones or have a functional medicine or integrative medicine approach.
In today’s video, we return to one of my favorite subjects, common labeling mistakes that dietary supplement manufacturers and distributors make when creating marketing claims for their products.
Here's today's scenario. Joe is someone who took biology, chemistry, thought about going to medical school, but didn't do so. Didn't get a license although he's got cousins that are nurses and [...]
Today, I’d like to talk about some key questions related to telehealth. Does telehealth use the MSO model, and are telemedicine companies and platforms essentially MSOs, and who cares? why does [...]
In today’s video, we discuss more basics of federal and state anti-kickback and fee-splitting prohibitions.
In today’s video, we talk about how a health coaching disclaimer is different from a medical consent, and when you should use one versus the other.
In today’s video, we discuss the basics of federal and state anti-kickback and fee-splitting prohibitions.
In today’s video, we talk about legal risks and risk mitigation related to provision (once again) of IV therapies—and we focus on Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enforcement around false [...]
In today’s video, we return to legal risks and risk mitigation for a healthcare startup deploying IV therapies.
In today’s video, we talk about laws governing mobile patient services such as IV hydration, vitamins, and concierge medical spa services like Botox.
In today’s video, we’ll talk about some more not so obvious ways that FDA can classify your dietary supplement as a drug.
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