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 MDs and Chiropractors Mitigate Legal Risks of Health Coaching

In today’s video, we talk more about legal risk mitigation for physicians, chiropractors, and other clinicians who want to do 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?

Telehealth Laws Across States

In today’s video, we discuss how a behavioral health therapist might do telehealth across states.

Post-COVID Telemedicine Licensing Requirements: Easier?

In today’s video, we discuss whether in a post-COVID world, telemedicine licensing laws will be easier.

Three Top Legal Strategies for Medical Spa Compliance

In today’s video, we discuss three top legal strategies for medical spa compliance. We have three tips for you today, legal strategies that potentially can pay off in terms of lowering your [...]

Did COVID Relax Telemedicine Laws?

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

Medical Tourism Traps for the Unwary Provider

In today’s video, we discuss one of the big traps that a healthcare provider in the U.S. can run into when trying to expand its clientele by positioning itself to take advantage of the growing [...]

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 [...]

FTC Enforces False Advertising Rules Against ‘Cell Repair’ Products

In today’s video, we discuss the dangers of marketing products without proper legal review—in this case, not just FDA enforcement, but even more significantly, FTC (Federal Trade Commission) [...]

FDA & FTC Regulatory Peril in Consumer Products

In today’s video, let’s talk some more about FDA and FTC issues in consumer products that focus on health, wellness, lifestyle or fitness.

How Does FDA Regulate Direct-to-Consumer Tests

In today’s video, we discuss how FDA regulates direct-to-consumer tests, tests that are marketed directly to consumers without the involvement of a health care professional, like the patient’s [...]

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.

Online Wellness – Handling Legal Compliance Challenges

In today’s video, we discuss healthcare legal compliance challenges that an online health and wellness company might face.

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, [...]

Multistate Coaching Laws & Legal Challenges

In today’s video, we discuss healthcare legal compliance challenges that a healthcare startup might face when it ventures into digital healthcare, and advises its customers on healthcare and [...]

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?

Supplement Disease Claims: A Huge FTC Risk

In today’s video, we discuss disease claims for dietary supplements, and the major enforcement risk that would get raised if you made them for your supplement product.

How to Draft a Telemedicine Informed Consent

In today’s video, we discuss whether you need a specific type of consent form to offer patients telemedicine or telehealth services.

FTC Enforcement Actions Hurt, Don’t Lose Your Shirt

Any health and wellness company not strong or tough enough to take the FTC pain, should have its marketing materials reviewed by legal counsel before putting them up on the Web.

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.

3 Legal Tips for Physicians Starting a Business

In today's video, I'll give you three legal tips for physicians forming a business.

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.