Is Your Product a Medical Device or General Wellness Product?

In today’s video, we’ll help you further understand some of the important FDA rules around medical devices.

Is an Online Course With DIY Lab Tests for Mental Health, “Health Coaching?”

In today’s video, we talk about some of the legal lines between the practice of medicine and psychology, and health coaching.

How To Label Your Cosmetics Product: Labeling

In today’s video, we help you further understand some of the important FDA rules around labeling your cosmetics product.

Key Dietary Supplement and Cosmetic Questions

In today’s video, we discuss some key questions that clients bring to us when they have a new dietary supplement or cosmetic.

Friendly PC Model Creates Legal Risk of Regulatory Attack

In today’s video, we discuss the “friendly PC” model and how PCs and PLLCs, or Professional Corporations and Professional Limited Liability Companies, can work with MSOs without getting shredded [...]

Do Health & Wellness Online Authors Risk Lawsuits?

If you’re someone who is publishing a book or e-book on health and wellness and you’re looking at a lot of media opportunities, and you’re concerned about your potential liability, then this [...]

Corporate Practice of Medicine, Psychology, Physical Therapy Risks to Investors

In today’s video, we discuss how investors can profit from businesses that deliver clinical services—and where they get themselves in trouble.

Dietary Supplement Claims: Avoid FDA Enforcement Crosshairs

Dietary supplement claims are the focus of today’s video: when you want to market a dietary supplement product, what are the basic FDA rules that you need to follow?

Do Health Coaches Risk Unlicensed Practice of Medicine, Psychology or Nutrition?

In today’s video, we discuss health coaching and whether health coaches can carve out a professional niche that doesn’t create undue risk of enforcement for unlicensed practice of medicine, [...]

Healthcare Startups Don’t Miss Critical Regulatory Risks

In today’s video, we talk about the regulatory issues that healthcare startups can face, and why it’s important to understand that these regulatory risks can trip up the healthcare venture.

Integrated Medical Clinic – Key Legal Takeaways

In today’s video, we tell you about key legal challenges associated with a multidisciplinary, integrative healthcare practice that has an MD (medical doctor), and a DC (chiropractic doctor), and [...]

Stark & PORA Basics

In today’s video, we discuss the basics of federal Stark law, and the anti-kickback and fee-splitting prohibitions.

Can Medical Doctors Legally Be Coaches?

In today’s video, we talk about how a physician can have a dual role, one is treating the patient and the other is providing online education.

Can Physicians Legally Do Health Coaching?

In today’s video, we talk about how physicians can tackle the legal and regulatory issues that often arise with health coaching.

How to Create a Telemedicine MSO

So you'd like to create an MSO for a telemedicine company, so what's the best way to do this?

IV Hydration Therapy – Legal Strategies

In today’s video, we discuss some of the legal perils involving IV hydration therapy and potential legal strategies and solutions.

How To Make Structure/Function Claims That Comply With DSHEA

In today’s video, we discuss how one client handled the legal uncertainty regarding the claims he could make for his new dietary supplement, which happened to involve the arena of brain health.

IV Hydration Therapy Services Raise Legal Challenges

In today’s video, we talk about legal issues raised by IV hydration therapy, in particular in the area of COVID-19 aka coronavirus.

How to Choose a Healthcare and FDA Law Attorney

In today’s video, we talk about how to choose a healthcare and FDA law attorney. How do you choose your healthcare or FDA law attorney?

Did COVID Relax Telemedicine Laws?

In today’s video, we discuss whether COVID relaxed telemedicine laws.

Medical Spa Compliance: Can an MD and RN Partner Up?

In today’s video, we discuss key mistake medical spas are making in their legal compliance, and how medical spas can thrive instead of floundering in the complicated legal maze.

My Thanks to Clients & Team in a Post-COVID World

Hello, this is Michael H. Cohen, founding attorney of Cohen Healthcare Law Group. I'd like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation and gratitude to you, to all of our clients who have [...]

Integrative Medicine & Functional Medicine Legal Foundations Rock Your Practice

In today’s video, we discuss some legal foundations for your integrative and functional medicine telehealth practice.

10 Ways a Dietary Supplement Can Be Regulated Like A Drug (Oops!)

In today’s video, we’ll talk about how FDA can classify your dietary supplement as a drug, subjecting you to enforcement that might require you to stop selling your product, and at a minimum will [...]

Who Wants to Be a Physician Pharmacy Owner?

In today’s video, we discuss whether physicians something that many of our physician clients have asked us about, namely, whether they can operate and open their own pharmacies or even have [...]

Can a Healthcare Product Distributor Get Sued for Repeating a 510(k) Claim That’s False?

In today’s video, we discuss how a distributor of a health and wellness consumer product (it could be you) bought themselves a lawsuit, when they purchased an FDA-registered, Class 1 medical [...]

Health Coaching Lawyer Reveals Secrets to Health Coaching Laws

In today’s video, we talk about some secret that health coaches must know before launching on the market and getting in trouble with the law for health coaching.

Health Coaching Laws Challenge Licensed MD Across States

In today’s video, we return to the topic of a medical doctor who does health coaching.

Health Coaching Legal Pitfalls & How To Limit Health Coaching Lawsuits

In today’s video, we return to the question of health coaching and whether licensed medical doctors, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, behavioral health specialists and counselors, [...]

Functional Medicine Telemedicine: How Do You Set It Up

Dr. Bob Smith came to our law firm, he was a hospital physician with 15 years’ experience. The hospital let go a lot of its staff, and Dr. Bob decided to open a telemedicine practice focusing on [...]

Do Telemedicine Laws Require a Minimum Number of In-Person Visits?

In today’s video, we discuss what are the minimum number of times per year and that a physician must see a patient, in-person, prior to treating the patient via telehealth?

Is it a crime to give people information about alternative therapies?

Is it a crime to give people information about alternative complementary integrated therapies that could potentially be a benefit to them? Is it against the law? Is it a statutory violation?

Functional Medicine Telehealth: Does Standard of Care Change?

In today’s video, we talk to those of you who want to make functional medicine work in a virtual healthcare, telehealth, telemedicine platform, that means without seeing the patient in person.

Healthcare Law Issues in a Digital, Telehealth Functional Medicine Practice

In today’s video, we discuss healthcare law issues in a digital, telehealth functional medicine practice or business.

FTC Weight Loss Claims – Legal Gut Check

In today’s video, we’ll talk about how the FTC handles weight loss claims—and we’re not referring to “love” handles, either. We’ll also give you some legal risk mitigation ideas.

Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Practice in Medical Spas – Legal Alert

In today’s video, we talk about how medical spas and medical practices handle some of the legal issues with regenerative medicine, and stem cell therapies.