Does your website comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? Do you know what that means, and what it does take to comply with the ADA? Is it applicable to your small practice website? The answer to these questions and much more is in this video.

Places of Public Accommodation

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You’ve started your business and you have some money, and now it is time to take it out and pay yourself. There are some right ways to do it and some wrong ways to do it. This blog will talk about 4 ways to help make sure you do it the right way.  

Getting Paid

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You are ready to start up a business.  What comes first-- the limited liability company (LLC) or the trademark?  I get this question quite a bit, so we’ll answer that in this blog and video.  We’ll also be talking about the differences between the two and how you can...

When you are building online courses, you come to the eventual question: “Do I need a separate Limited Liability Company (LLC) for my online courses?” PDF tools and other softwares can guide you in creating your online courses; however, the legalities of an LLC can be tricky. I...

Inconceivable! You keep using the word ‘S-Corp,'  but I do not think that word means what you think it means. Fans of The Princess Bride will recognize the reference, but in this video, I’ll talk about S-Corps (S-Corporations): why you might be using that term incorrectly, what...

A California man was charged last month with five felony counts, including falsely claiming to be a licensed doctor and practicing medicine on thousands of individuals, offering treatment for serious medical conditions, including cancer.

The Los Angeles County District...

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is temporarily extending current COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) flexibilities for prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine. 

As we covered in detail on this blog (PHE Ending: What You Need to Know), the federal PHE ends on May 11,...

Introduction

I'm Scott Rattigan, founder of Functional Lawyer. Way back in March of 2020, there was a lot of excitement because the federal government, the administration, at that time, put into place a lot of waivers for the pandemic, declaring a Public Health Emergency (PHE). Since the PHE is...

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) can be complicated.  What are you doing for HIPAA? How confident are you in your HIPAA plans?  More is needed than just a Notice of Privacy Practices and some HIPAA compliant software.  This is not an...

Introduction

As most nurse practitioners know, there is a bill called Assembly Bill 890 that Governor Newsom signed into law in September of 2020. In it, he and the legislature have tasked the Board of Registered Nursing to come up with two new categories of nurse practitioners: 103 NP & 104...

The Stark Law, commonly known as the Physician Self-Referral Law, is a federal law that prohibits physicians from referring patients to any entity where they have a vested financial interest for “designated health services” that will be paid by Medicare or Medicaid. Physicians need to...