Management services model for medical spas: legal issues
Medical spas and integrative care centers can often benefit from management services models to structure arrangements in light of Stark, anti-kickback and fee-splitting legal rules.
Our law firm has detailed some of these issues in posts including:
Managing Fee Splitting Issues in the Integrative Care Center or Medical Spa
Employee v. Independent Contractor in the Medical Spa or Integrative Care Center
Federal Self-Referral (Stark) and Anti-Kickback Analysis for Integrative Care Centers
The Mall Model: A Legal Structure to Handle Anti-Kickback Concerns of Integrative Care Centers
The legal advice our attorneys render to clients is constantly changing depending on the changing map of laws, regulations, and regulatory enforcement priorities. Although the management services model is very common, and the above articles lay out some of the permutations in detail, there are some caveats. Our Stark and anti-kickback / fee-splitting lawyers have included some legal concerns of note in these articles:
Sham medical director agreements violate Stark laws
Use of lasers for body scuplting raises legal issues
Stark laws were violated as a matter of law, federal judge finds
Fair market value rules must be respected to mitigate kickback issues
Before entering into any compensation arrangement that could implicate Stark, anti-kickback or fee-splitting laws, be sure to consult experienced health care legal counsel.
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