Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 8, Corporate Practice of Medicine and Other Legal Impediments

By Adam Winger

The Textbook of Urgent Care Management is now offering individual chapters for sale. The full book, provides an expert business consulting guide to potential or existing urgent care clinic owners, managers & operators as well as investors. Learn how to more effectively run your immediate care or walk-in center as well as start incorporating urgent care services into your existing primary care practice. The chapters cover valuable information from industry experts on how to start, manage, and even sell your urgent care center.

Chapter 8 includes:

Theories Underlying the Corporate Practice of Medicine Doctrine
- Protecting the Physician-Patient Relationship
- Commercialization of the Practice of Medicine
- Corporation Is Not Licensed

Structuring an Urgent Care Enterprise
- Friendly PC Structure

Noncompliance Penalties

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Mar 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9781940288307

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CHAPTER 8

Corporate Practice of Medicine

and Other Legal Impediments

to Nonphysician Ownership

Adam Winger

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Chapter 8

Corporate Practice of Medicine and Other Legal Impediments to Nonphysician Ownership

Adam Winger

STATE HEALTH-CARE LAWS OFTEN have a dramatic impact on the legal structuring of an urgent care business. This chapter focuses on the legal issues confronted when entities or nonphysician individuals attempt to own an equity interest in an urgent care company. Although the discussion is directed largely toward those in the startup phase, it should also be helpful to those considering either growing their business outside the state in which they currently operate or accepting an investment from one or more nonphysicians.

Several statutory and common law principles limit a layperson’s ownership of a company engaged in the business of practicing medicine. Although the principles that have found their ways into state statutes and case law share several fundamental commonalities, each state has devised its own approach to confronting the concerns with unlicensed persons owning interests in medical practices. This fragmented regulatory approach leads to frustration in the urgent care community, especially for those in the startup phase. Having fielded dozens of calls from prospective entrants into the