Our healthcare and business law firm works with many providers and other allied health professionals who are beginning their journeys of opening a Medical Spa. They have been growing in popularity across the country. Medical Spas are unique practices in that they involve many medical and non-medical procedures. There are…
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Medical Spa Series: General OSHA Standards for Medical Spas
Our healthcare and business law firm works with many providers and other allied health professionals who are beginning their journeys of opening a Medical Spa. Medical Spas have been growing in popularity across the country. They are unique practices in that they involve medical and non-medical procedures. There are many…
3 Tips for Ending a Prepayment Review with Tricare/Humana Military
Our healthcare and business law firm often assists medical practices in responding to medical record and coding audits initiated by private and governmental payors. If a payor believes there are consistent concerns with a medical practice’s claims, the payor may place the practice under a prepayment review process. This process…
Understanding a Prepayment Review
Our healthcare and business law firm often assists medical practices in responding to medical record and coding audits initiated by private and governmental payors. If a payor believes there are consistent concerns with a medical practice’s claims, the payor may place the practice under a prepayment review process. This process…
Off-Label Treatments and Medications and Informed Consent
Our healthcare and business law firm often assists provider and medical practice clients with preparing informed consents. Many clients offer treatments in an off-label use and question whether informed consents are necessary for such use. Currently, there is no FDA requirement to get a patient’s informed consent, but it may…
5 Key Points About the CDC’s Updated Opioid Prescribing Guidelines
After the CDC issued its 2016 Opioid Prescribing Guideline, which focused on recommendations for primary care physicians, many physicians greatly limited prescribing opioids. This was in response to the opioid epidemic in our country which had an impact on reducing opioid abuse. However, it also may have left patients undertreated…
Overview of Florida’s Autonomous Nurse Practitioner Law
As a healthcare and business law firm, we have many clients who either are or wish to hire nurse practitioners around the country. Each state has very specific, and often complicated, laws and rules governing nurse practitioner practices. In 2020, Florida introduced a new law allowing certain nurse practitioners to…
Florida State Telemedicine Prescribing Rules
Our healthcare and business law firm previously published a blog post on the federal telemedicine rules. Both Federal and State rules govern the provision of telemedicine. Each state’s rules governing telemedicine are different, but the applicable laws and rules are generally found in the state medical board’s rules, insurance codes,…
Florida State Telemedicine Rules
Our healthcare and business law firm previously published a blog post on the federal telemedicine rules. Both Federal and State rules govern the provision of telemedicine. Each state’s rules governing telemedicine are different, but the applicable laws and rules are generally found in the state medical board’s rules or position…
North Carolina State Telemedicine Prescribing Rules
Our healthcare and business law firm previously published a blog post on the federal telemedicine rules. Both Federal and State rules govern the provision of telemedicine. Each state’s rules governing telemedicine are different, but the applicable laws and rules are generally found in the state medical board’s rules, insurance code,…