Must you be a physician to perform laser techniques?
Medical spa owners frequently call for legal advice on the question of whether they need a physician to perform cosmetic laser techniques?
Continue Reading...Laws regulating who can perform cosmetic laser procedures
Who can legally perform cosmetic procedures including laser surgery?
Continue Reading...Managing Fee Splitting Issues in the Integrative Care Center or Medical Spa
This article updates our discussion of how our attorneys structure multidisciplinary clinical practices involving complementary medicine, holistic health, and medical spa therapies.
Continue Reading...Structuring the Holistic Health Care Clinic, Wellness Center, Medical Spa, or Integrative Care Center: Legal Issues
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.
Continue Reading...Legal Issues in a Medical Spa or Integrative Care Center: Anti-kickback and Fee-Splitting Concerns - Structuring the Practice
Legal issues involving self-referral, kickbacks and fee-splitting need to be addressed in structuring a medical spa or integrative medicine care center - or even a multidisciplinary clinical health care center or group practice that involves multidisciplinary teams of allied health providers, such as psychologists and nurses.
Continue Reading...Legal Issues in a Medical Spa or Integrative Care Center: Anti-kickback and Fee-Splitting Concerns - The Laws
One of the most important legal concerns when setting up a medical spa or integrative medicine - or even a multidisciplinary health care center or group practice that involves multidisciplinary teams of allied health providers, such as psychologists and nurses, involves self-referral, anti-kickback and fee-splitting.
Continue Reading...Integrative medicine expert offers course on the business of spas
Marc Micozzi, MD, PhD, my co-author on "The Practice of Integrative Medicine: A Legal and Operational Guide," is offering a course on spa business issues.
Continue Reading...Legal issues involving medical directors of spas
The California medical board has made an interesting statement about a physician serving as medical director of a spa.
Continue Reading...Anti-kickback and fee-splitting issues for integrative medicine clinics and medical spas
Anti-kickback and fee-splitting issues can pose challenges to integrative medicine clinics and medical spas.
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California medical spa law for doctors and patients
The California medical board actually has some readable information on its website about medical spa laws and regulations.
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Medical Spa Regulation
Who can perform various medical spa procedures? Is physician supervision necessary, or physician delegation to an unlicensed assistant or to a nurse possible?
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Medical and Physician Spa Practices: A practical guide in avoiding costly and regulatory mistakes
Law Offices of Michael H. Cohen presents "Medical and Physician Spa Practices: A practical guide in avoiding costly and regulatory mistakes" in a webcast for lawyers sponsored by West Legal Education Center.
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Key Legal Issues for Medical Spas and Aesthetic Medical Practices
The medical spa industry is exploding with potential business opportunities. Yet, many physicians and business owners open an aesthetic medical practice or join a medical spa with little awareness of the potential legal and regulatory pitfalls that await the unprepared clinician or entrepreneur.
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International Association for Physicians in Aesthetic Medicine
The International Association for Physicians in Aesthetic Medicine is a voluntary association of physicians which sets standards for the aesthetic medical profession.
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Medical Spa Legal Issues
Medical spas are exploding in popularity, and owners/entrepreneurs need to carefully address legal issues.
Continue Reading...FDA regulation of steam baths and hot tubs
For those interested in how the FDA regulates steam baths and hot tubs that are intended to be used for medical purposes, these links may be helpful.
Continue Reading...Medical device vs. cosmetics: a question of FDA regulation
The federal Food Drug & Cosmetic Act distinguishes medical devices from cosmetics, though I've come across a letter debating the FDA's warning that a certain cosmetic could constitute a "medical device."
Continue Reading...Legal & Liability Issues of a Medical Spa
I've come across a book enitled "Legal & Liability Issues of a Medical Spa," though it's a bit pricey.
Continue Reading...States considering taxing plastic surgery and cosmetic medicine
States are considering taxing plastic surgery and cosmetic (retail) medicine.
Continue Reading...Wellness spas featured
In 'Wellness Spas: Separating the Quality From the Quackery,' the Washington Post featured key health care law and policy issues surrounding the increasing popularity of spa care.
Continue Reading...Florida Law on Physician Presence Challenges Spa Owners
A new Florida law for cosmetic laser and light technology is challenging for spa owners, reports TampaBays.com.
Continue Reading...Legal Blow to Spa Clinic's Bid
A spa clinic's bid to open in Burlingame, California was rejected by a local planning commission on the ground that nurses must legally be present during Botox injections, converting the spa into a "medical office."
Continue Reading...Spa Treatments Criticized as Insufficiently Unregulated
Spa treatments such as Botox and Restalyne have been criticized by NYT reporter Alex Kuczynski's in her new book, Beauty Junkies.
Continue Reading...Medical Spa Legal Issues: Laser Therapy
Physician supervision requirements can make delivery of medical spa therapies expensive.
Continue Reading...Massage Establishment Laws Nip Massage Therapy
One massage therapy institution has found itself under attack from massage establishment laws in a local town.
Continue Reading...Spa-Goers Cautioned in Tapei
Not all medical spas provide outstanding care and treatment.
Continue Reading...Medical Spas
I'm starting to keep a running list of new medical spas ... the fields keeps booming. The blog covers medical spa legal issues elsewhere.
Continue Reading...Retail Health Clinics Moving in on Doctors' Territory
Retail clinics in the backs of pharmacies and other stores are moving in on the diganostic territory traditionally held by MD's.
Continue Reading...Jet Blue Into Alt Med
Jet Blue now offers a "health and wellness" sky service.
Continue Reading...Medical Spa Resources
Medical Spa Financing offers financing services for medical spas.
Continue Reading...Medical Spa Liability Insurance and Other Spa Insurance Coverage
Medical spas may require additional thinking about liability insurance and other coverage, since they add medical complexity to the regular spa approach.
Continue Reading...Spa Business Models, Liability Risk Management, and Legal Issues in Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Therapies
Spas and integrative medicine clinics increasingly offer the same complementary therapies (from massage therapy to acupuncture) and share the same healing goals. They also may share the same legal concerns, as well as risk management issues and opportunities.
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The Practice of Integrative Medicine: A Legal and Operational Guide is now available from Springer.
One of the transformations facing health care in the twenty-first century is the safe, effective, and appropriate integration of
Michael H. Cohen's novel A Question of Time is about consciousness. Gabriel Goodman takes a vacation from his law firm
Legal Issues in Integrative Medicine: A Guide for Clinicians, Hosptials, and Patients by Michael H. Cohen (National Acupuncture Foundation,
In Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Legal Boundaries and Regulatory Perspectives, Michael H. Cohen breaks new ground in putting together the
In Beyond Complementary Medicine, Michael H. Cohen goes deeper into the legal, ethical, and regulatory aspects of integrating complementary
Future Medicine by Michael H. Cohen is an investigation into the clinical, legal, ethical, and regulatory changes occurring in our
What happens when a Wall Street lawyer, steeped in Judaism, enters an interfaith seminary, engages mystically, and connects with disincarnate