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.

Virtual Reality Health Fitness Coaching App: Healthcare Startup Legal Snafu?

Joe, not the plumber, but the app developer, has an app that combines virtual reality health coaching, personal fitness training and nutritional advice. Joe has come to us for legal advice [...]

Health Fitness Coaching Apps and Virtual Reality: Practice of Medicine?

In this video, we’ll discuss an app that combines virtual reality health coaching, together with personal fitness and nutritional advice and much more. What are the regulatory pitfalls and [...]

Functional Medicine

How can a functional medicine doctor create a concierge medicine model for their patients? There are two important legal tools here: (1) your informed consent form, and (2) your membership [...]

Telemedicine Agreements: How to Spot That Hidden Penalty Clause

In the last video, we were talking about Dr. Bob who got a two-million-dollar contract with a hospital to provide telemedicine services. Unfortunately, Dr. Bob didn’t get the last bit of legal [...]

Use an MSO to Comply with Federal Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors

What can an MSO, a Management Services Organization, do to augment your healthcare compliance?

Physician Employment Agreements: Don’t Miss These Key Protections!

In this video, we talk to our physician clients about key protections that you’ll want to include in your employment agreement. Now, if you’re a medical practice or medical group, you’ll also [...]

Medical Director Legal No-Nos for Medical Spas

In today’s video, we discuss whether being “Medical Director” is a Legal Trap for your Medical Spa. By the end of today’s video, you’ll get a sense as to whether it’s a good or bad idea to have a [...]

Avoid a Hidden Fee in that Hospital to Physician Telemedicine Contract

By the end of today’s video, you’ll learn about a super-sneaky trick that was played on somebody who had a contract partly reviewed, but didn’t get the potion of legal advice all the way, so [...]

How to Inoculate Yourself Against Corporate Practice of Medicine Kryptonite

In today’s video, we’ll talk about how to inoculate yourself against Corporate Practice of Medicine kryptonite, using some sound legal risk mitigation tools and tips.

Telemedicine & MSO Contracts—Legal

In this video, we walk you through how we worked with a recent client, a physician who has a telemedicine practice and a management services organization, also known as an MSO.

How a Healthcare Lawyer Helps you Prevent These Costly Mistakes

Why do you need, or want to hire a healthcare lawyer? Why get someone who understands health and wellness law, FDA law? Not just let your business lawyer handle your healthcare practice issues or [...]

Healthcare Law as a Spiritual Path

These days, everybody’s into public health. It’s obviously a topic of concern. Everybody wants to know about virology and how we can get healthier. So, being a healthcare lawyer is very occurrent [...]

Is Your Healthcare Business Really a Practice

In today’s video, we discuss certain healthcare business models incorporating medical devices that might have to deal with FDA rules on those devices.

Dissolving Conscious: Pandemic Dream Poetry

2:12 AM here and I had this dream. I went to an islander retreat site, the captain of the bus was telling me about the pandemic conditions. My son was there, but then the dream was about me. I [...]

Can You Beat Corporate Practice of Medicine Rules?

In today’s video, we discuss the subject of corporate practice of medicine. Plenty of clients come to us having heard this very anachronistic term and ask us to help them understand what it means [...]

Concierge Medicine – Membership Model & Consent

In this video, we talk about some of the foundational legal documents you will need when you decide to implement a membership model for your medical practice or other healthcare clinical operation.

“Healthcare Lawyer” vs “FDA Lawyer”

In today’s video, we discuss the difference between “Healthcare Lawyer” and “FDA Lawyer” and what the distinction means in terms of your potential needs. Many of our clients upon watching our [...]

Legal Issues When Leaving a Medical Practice: Navigating Non-Solicitation vs. Abandonment

In today’s video, we talk more about what to do and what to do and NOT to do, if you’re a physician who is leaving someone else’s medical group, or medical practice, where you’ve been happily [...]

Can a Physician Assistant Run Your Medical Practice?

Can a Physician Assistant run your medical practice? By the end of today’s video, you’ll know whether this wish corresponds with reality. We’ll walk through some of the legal compliance fine [...]

Healthcare Law, Health & Wellness Industry Mission

Happy New Year, Happy New Decade! As someone dedicated to health and wellness, to really making a difference in the world, we join you in saluting this new energy of transformation that is coming [...]

What Opting Out of Medicare Means for a Practice

In today’s video, we discuss a few of the ways a medical practice can be affected by choosing to opt out of Medicare.

Medical Practice Departure: Non-Solicitation vs Abandonment vs Non-Compete

In today’s video, we talk to the physician or chiropractor some more about what to do and NOT to do when you are leaving someone else’s medical group, medical practice, integrative medicine [...]

How Doctors & Nurses Use Standardized Procedures for Medical Spa Compliance

Doctors and nurses and standardized procedures, oh my! Well it doesn’t quite have the same resonance as Dorothy’s chant in Wizard of Oz, but doctors and nurses and standardized procedures really [...]

Multistate Telemedicine Laws & Legal Challenges

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

Avoid Medical Spa Compliance Blues with These Legal Tips

In today’s video, we discuss medical spa compliance and legal tips and strategies to help you get over the medspa compliance blues. By the end of today’s video, you’ll learn top enforcement hot [...]

Nonsurgical Medical Cosmetic Procedures – Legal

In today’s video, we talk about laws governing nonsurgical medical cosmetic procedures. Let’s break that down: these are procedures that are nonsurgical, so they don’t involve surgery.

Medical Spa Delegation: Money Magic or Compliance Crinkle?

Delegating in your medical spa can be a money-maker; it can also create compliance woes and legal exposure. In today’s video, we talk about some of the compliance do’s and don’ts, especially [...]

BAA BAA HIPAA Sheep, Have You Any Compliance Penalties?

Business Associate Agreements, or BAAs, are all the rage these days. As in rage against the machine, the giant multi-tentacled gleaming metallic horror that is popularly known as the Health [...]

Who Legally Owns a Medical Spa?

Who could legally own a medical spa? That’s the question we address in today’s video. By the end of today’s video, you’ll understand how medical doctors and healthcare entrepreneurs use the MSO [...]

Laws Governing Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Practice in Medical Spas

In today’s video, we provide general guidance to medical doctors and medical spas about handling laws and regulations governing regenerative medicine and stem cell practice.

California Anti-Kickback and Fee-Splitting Law for Smarties

California Anti-kickback and Fee-Splitting Law for Smarties is the subject of today’s video.

Fee-Splitting & Anti-Kickback Issues for Healthcare Clinics

In today’s video, we discuss how multidisciplinary clinical healthcare practices can be profitable without running afoul of legal rules prohibiting corporate practice of medicine, and [...]

FTC Legal Issues Require Nuanced Legal Advice

In today’s video, we return to FTC substantiation rules and talk about the dilemma substantiation causes for dietary supplement and cosmetics companies, as well as how to break through.

Can FTC Substantiation Requirements Take Down Your Healthcare Product?

In today’s video, we describe how FTC substantiation rules can make or break the marketing you can make for your health and wellness product.

Will FDA/FTC Substantiation Rules Blow Your Supplement Company Up?

In today’s video, we discuss how FDA and FTC substantiation rules can ensnare, derail, and detonate dietary supplement and cosmetics companies.