Retail Clinics in Healthcare: Corporate Practice of Medicine, Licensure, Scope of Practice Compliance

Dr. Dacso works with healthcare organizations, hospitals, and physicians on healthcare compliance, regulations, and transactions, including physician practice formation, mergers, acquisitions, and business ventures as well as digital health and telemedicine. A Texas Board Certified Health Care Lawyer with more than three decades of experience, her practice includes the representation of nonprofit organizations such as federally qualified health centers, certified nonprofit health corporations, medical education foundations, and research organizations. She often advises on employer or retail-based clinics, joint ventures involving exempt and nonexempt organizations and addresses issues associated with governance and regulatory compliance. Dr. Dacso has written several textbooks and articles on a broad range of healthcare topics ranging from managed care to virtual practice arrangements among physician practices and previously served on the editorial board of E-Health, Law and Policy, and has been a regular contributing author of a chapter in the BNA publication of E-Health, Privacy and Security Law (multiple editions).

Ms. de la Houssaye is Co-Leader of the firm's Healthcare Litigation Team and Chairs the Healthcare Industry Telemedicine Team. She works extensively with hospitals, health systems, providers, and start-up companies to structure and integrate telemedicine, telehealth, and digital health platforms. Ms. de la Houssaye has a broad-based litigation and healthcare regulatory practice advising clients from across the industry spectrum. Drawing on her more than 25 years in private practice and her firsthand experience as co-founder of and general counsel to one of Louisiana’s first teleradiology networks, she helps clients navigate the rapidly developing regulatory landscape affecting today’s healthcare delivery, including U.S. FDA application and registration processes and emergency use authorization approvals, U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services coverage issues, state corporate practice of medicine regulations, and issues arising during the COVID-19 era and beyond. An active member of the American Telemedicine Association, Ms. de la Houssaye speaks and moderates sessions at its yearly fall forums and annual meetings.