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Health Care Provider Licensing Laws Spell Out Who Can Practice

By Michael H. Cohen, Esq.

Some states, such as New York, spell out clearly who can offer health care practices and the legal definitions for and boundaries of these practices.

Below is a list of some relevant New York state statutes:

New York State Health Care Provider Licensing Laws

... Article 131 Medicine (Sections 6520-6529)

... Article 131-A Definitions of professional misconduct applicable to physicians, physician assistants and specialist assistants (Sections 6530-6532)

... Article 131-B Physician assistants and specialist assistants (Sections 6540-6548)

... Article 132 Chiropractic (Sections 6550-6556)

... Article 133 Dentistry, dental hygiene, and certified dental assisting (Sections 6600-6613)

... Article 135 Veterinary medicine and veterinary technology (Sections 6700-6714)

... Article 136 Physical therapy and physical therapist assistants (Sections 6730-6743)

... Article 137 Pharmacy (Sections 6800-6828)

... Article 139 Nursing (Sections 6900-6910)

... Article 140 Professional midwifery (Sections 6950-6958)

... Article 141 Podiatry (Sections 7000-7007)

... Article 143 Optometry (Sections 7100-7107)

... Article 144 Ophthalmic dispensing (Sections 7120-7128)

... Article 145 Engineering and land surveying (Sections 7200-7211)

... Article 147 Architecture (Sections 7300-7308)

... Article 148 Landscape architecture (Sections 7320-7328)

... Article 149 Public accountancy (Sections 7400-7409)

... Article 151 Shorthand reporting (Sections 7500-7504)

... Article 153 Psychology (Sections 7600-7606)

... Article 154 Social work (Sections 7700-7705)

... Article 155 Massage Therapy (Sections 7800-7806)

... Article 156 Occupational therapy (Sections 7900-7907)

... Article 157 Dietetics and nutrition (Sections 8000-8006)

... Article 159 Speech-language pathologists and audiologists (Sections 8200-8209)

... Article 160 Acupuncture (Sections 8210-8216)

... Article 161 Interior design (Sections 8300-8307)

... Article 162 Athletic trainers (Sections 8350-8358)

... Article 163 Mental Health Practitioners (Sections 8400-8411)

... Article 164 Respiratory therapists and respiratory therapy technicians (Sections 8500-8513)

...  Article 165 Clinical Laboratory Technology Practice Act (Sections 8600-8610)

... Article 166 Medical Physics Practice (Sections 8700-8709)

The licensing rules can have multiple layers--for example, regulations by the state board in addition to statute; administrative rules; attorney general opinions, and relevant cases.

Contact a knowledgeable and skilled health care law attorney who understands complementary medicine and integrative medicine, for legal advice to help you structure a business that includes health care providers from many disciplines.

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Michael H. Cohen is an attorney providing business legal advice to green entrepreneurs and companies, and health care law advice to businesses and physicians, acupuncturists, naturopaths, homeopaths and others in the holistic health, wellness, and green industries. He works with telemedicine and other cutting-edge technologies and gives clear legal advice to grow your business.

As a founding attorney of the Global Vision Law Group, he represents businesses poised for vertical lift, whose leaders are conscious, intuitive, and committed to shaping a better world. Michael also advises medical spas and integrative medicine clinics, physicians, chiropractors, naturopathic physicians, massage therapists, energy healers, nutritionists and herbalists, dietary supplement and cosmetics companies, and businesses with bio-energy and other technologies and medical devices. The website also offers the Entrepreneur's Legal Toolkit as a series of legal guides to businesses.

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Full post as published by Complementary And Alternative Medicine Law Blog on September 11, 2010 (boomark / email).