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Structuring the Holistic Health Care Clinic, Wellness Center, Medical Spa, or Integrative Care Center: Legal Issues

By Michael H. Cohen, Esq.

Attorneys at Global Vision Law Group routinely advise clients setting up holistic health care centers, wellness clinics, integrative medicine centers, and medical spas regarding the legal issues involved in structuring a group health practice or wellness initiative.

The checklist of legal issues that our lawyers address includes areas such as:

• medical malpractice
• chiropractic malpractice, acupuncture malpractice, and negligence by other healers such as homeopaths, naturopathic physicians, homeopathic physicians, massage therapists, energy healers, psychologists, and other mind-body providers and therapists
• scope of practice (the practice boundaries for health care practitioners other than MDs and DOs)
• medical board and other regulatory board discipline for unprofessional conduct (also known as professional misconduct
• insurance billing and coding
• Medicare opt-out and dealing with Medicare patients as a par or non-par physician
• health care fraud and abuse issues
• contracts between the center and associated practitioners
• other legal issues

Because this is such a huge and growing part of our niche practice in holistic health care, complementary and alternative medicine, integrative medicine, and the medical spa and wellness industries, we have dedicated considerable blog time to posts discussing the legal issues.

Most commonly our attorneys refer clients to posts such as:

• Legal Issues in a Medical Spa or Integrative Care Center: Anti-kickback and Fee-Splitting Concerns - The Laws

• Legal Issues in a Medical Spa or Integrative Care Center: Anti-kickback and Fee-Splitting Concerns - Structuring the Practice

• Anti-kickback and fee-splitting issues for integrative medicine clinics and medical spa

• Legal issues involving medical directors of spas

• California medical spa law for doctors and patients

• Medical Spa Regulation

• Medical and Physician Spa Practices: A practical guide in avoiding costly and regulatory mistakes

• Medical Spa Legal Issues

• FDA regulation of steam baths and hot tubs

• Florida Law on Physician Presence Challenges Spa Owners

• Medical Spa Legal Issues: Laser Therapy

• Spa Business Models, Liability Risk Management, and Legal Issues in Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Therapies

In the next post we will update our discussion of medical spa legal issues with a focus on contracts between the wellness or holistic health care (CAM or integrative medicine) center or medical spa on one hand, and the practitioners on the other.

Our law firm has many successes with health care and business law clients, whose practices are transforming the business and health care landscape as we know it.

Michael H. Cohen is an attorney providing business legal advice to green entrepreneurs and companies, and health care law advice to businesses and physicians, acupuncturists, naturopaths, homeopaths and others in the holistic health, wellness, and green industries. As a founding attorney of the Global Vision Law Group, he represents businesses poised for vertical lift, whose leaders are conscious, intuitive, and committed to shaping a better world. Michael also advises medical spas and integrative medicine clinics, physicians, chiropractors, naturopathic physicians, massage therapists, energy healers, nutritionists and herbalists, dietary supplement and cosmetics companies, and businesses with bio-energy and other technologies and medical devices. Michael offers the Entrepreneur's Legal Toolkit as a series of legal guides to businesses. The first legal e-book deals with Contract Essentials, giving legal tips every business needs to negotiate its legal agreements; the second addresses legal issues faced by multi-level marketing companies and individuals involved in multilevel marketing and direct sales; and the third one so far is a HIPAA Regulations and Privacy Manual at far less the cost than it would take for an attorney to prepare.

Michael also sponsors Being Central, a Portal for Potential, which gives access to other, pre-paid legal services. 

Read reviews of Michael's work on the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Law Blog. And visit the Flat Rate Legal Services page for information on legal services offered at a flat rate or project fee (such as incorporation for entrepreneurs, review and drafting of business contracts, trademark, and health law services for CAM providers and others).

Michael's clientele  through the Global Vision Law Group includes businesses not only in California, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., and other U.S. states, but also abroad. To speak with a lawyer about health care law issues pertaining to complementary and alternative medicine, or to consult a business lawyer about laws and legal issues for entrepreneurs and new enterprises that are seeking legal advice, contact the Global Vision Law Group today. 

 

Full post as published by Complementary And Alternative Medicine Law Blog on December 24, 2009 (boomark / email).