Frier Levitt Podiatrist-Attorney, Lawrence F. Kobak, DPM, Esq. has authored an article in the current edition (February 2021) of Podiatry Management about the corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) and Management Services Organizations (MSOs).
What is the corporate practice of medicine (CPOM)? The legal concept of CPOM generally prohibits corporations, entities, or individual non-physicians from practicing medicine. It also prohibits a business corporation from employing a physician to provide professional medical services. By physician, it means physicians with plenary licenses; this means MDs and DOs. It does not generally include podiatrists, dentists, psychologists, DPTs, or DNPs. It certainly does not include unlicensed non-medical personnel. The rationale is that people without a license to treat the entire body should not be able to expand their scope of practice by hiring those with a plenary scope of practice.
Podiatrists, of course, can work for podiatrists.
Read the full article here.
