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Physician and Clinician Sales of Dietary Supplements: Legal View
Sales of dietary supplements by physicians, acupuncturists, chiropractors, and other licensed professionals raise thorny legal issues. This can be confusing, because on one hand, “everybody does...
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7 Steps to Growing Your Integrative Medicine Practice in 2015
I want to ring in the New Year by offering 7 core approaches for exponentially increasing patient volume, boosting product sales and reinvigorating the bottom line! 1. Rethink Your Business/Clinic...
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FON Therapeutics Is Now FON Consulting
At the beginning of the New Year FON was ‘rebranded.’ FON’s (Force of Nature) company name was derived by a Harvard dean who also happens to be my long-time oncologist. That story can be read here....
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Thorne Research Partners with Mayo Clinic to Study Supplements
Thorne Research Inc. a leader in developing and manufacturing pure high quality nutritional supplements entered a new dietary supplement clinical study agreement with Mayo Clinic. Starting in January...
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NIH (NCCIH) Releases 2012 Survey Results for Natural Health Approaches and Usage
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), along with the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease...
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START UP: Writing a Concierge Medicine Practice Business Plan
Have you ever thought about starting a direct-pay medical practice or other variation of a private medical practice? Well, whether you are concerned about the Affordable Care Act, looming Medicare...
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Go Deep, Then Wide: Building Integrative Health Practices
Contrary to this article’s title, entrepreneurs and business managers naturally do the exact opposite: focusing widely but not deeply enough. That’s a productivity killer. Let me explain. See, when it...
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Opportunities for Academic and Hospital-based Integrative Medicine in a...
(Special thanks to Taylor Walsh and John Weeks for their contributions to this article.) A colleague recently asked for an example of an economically sustainable academic medical center fully...
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Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Functional Medicine: A Test Kitchen for...
From the outside, there’s nothing about the Cleveland Clinic’s new Center for Functional Medicine that suggests a healthcare revolution in the making. Tucked away in a compact suite in the vast Miller...
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Do Online Coupons for Integrative Medicine Services Violate Stark and...
Many integrative practitioners and online enterprises want to know whether Stark, anti-kickback, and fee-splitting laws are violated by business arrangements that offer online coupons or web-based...
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‘Grow Your List’ to Grow Your Integrative Health Business
Why you must develop a subscriber list & 27 ways to make it happen. ******** There’s no single magic silver bullet approach for growing integrative health and medicine practices today. It requires...
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An Integrative Oncology Patient’s Thoughts on ‘Cancer: Emperor of All Maladies’
As a 24-year cancer survivor I watched Cancer: Emperor of all Maladies with mixed emotions. From this patient’s perspective, the film is all about the ‘tumor’ and treats the host, aka the patient, as...
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You Don’t Have to Be Smarter, Just Give Better Care
The key to success in holistic and functional medicine is simply to give better care than the other doctors in your area. Given how utterly dysfunctional mainstream medicine is, these days, it...
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9 Ways to Earn Your Patient’s Lifetime Value
I retract my recent post: building a subscriber list isn’t the foremost marketing tactic for growing an integrative medicine practice or brand. Unequivocally, that distinction belongs to securing...
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HHS Shuns Congressional Intent on ACA’s Practitioner Non-Discrimination Language
In an April 24, 2015 e-mail made available to the Integrator by Mike Jawer of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP), the US. Department of Health and Human Services effectively...
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Dr. Don Berwick’s Institute for Health Improvement Promotes New Delivery...
The most progressive forces in U.S. medicine have signed on and are promoting a new strategy for medicine and health in the United States. In a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical...
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[PETITION] Dr. Mark Hyman Assists Congressman Tim Ryan with Enrich Act—to...
A note reached the Integrator via integrative cardiologist Mimi Guarneri, MD from author and functional medicine advocate Mark Hyman, MD. “I need your help on something,” wrote Hyman. “I have helped...
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New Report Chronicles Cost-Effectiveness of Integrative Medicine
In 2012 the most experienced researcher of the costs and benefits of complementary and integrative care stated: “I’m tired of this talk that there is no evidence for cost-effectiveness of...
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Integrative Medicine Clinical Services: When Less is More
If you’re operating a small integrative or functional medicine clinic offering a substantial menu of services, you may inadvertently be undermining your capacity for meaningful engagement with...
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Dean Ornish: Unrelenting Healthcare Disruptor
No one has been a greater force than Dr. Dean Ornish in proving the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of ‘lifestyle over procedures’ for chronic disease. His seminal work, designing whole systems...
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