Telemedicine: Understanding FDA’s Role in Recent Regulatory and Enforcement Actions

Telemedicine: Understanding FDA’s Role in Recent Regulatory and Enforcement Actions

Telemedicine: Understanding FDA’s Role in Recent Regulatory and Enforcement Actions

Posted: 11 Jul 2019 11:45 PM PDT

Telemedicine platforms provide consumers and patients with convenient access to healthcare services. For this reason, the interest in and use of telemedicine services has increased significantly in recent years. While many discussions of the risks related to telemedicine focus on state laws and fraud and abuse concerns, FDA has begun to exercise its enforcement authority over telemedicine-related activities.

In this month’s issue of Compliance Today, Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C. associates Serra Schlanger and Rachael Hunt provide an overview of FDA’s enforcement authority and discuss examples of its application in two recent cases.   Click here to read the article, Telemedicine: Understanding the FDA’s role in recent regulatory and enforcement actions.