{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Scaling Practice Management by Talkie.ai","title":"Who Is Allowed to Own a Medical Practice? | John Rhodes","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/8dc024ba\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3417,"description":"Private equity owns a lot of medical practices - except it usually doesn't own the practice at all.\nJohn Rhodes has practiced healthcare law for nearly 20 years, most recently leading the legal team at Walmart Health. In February 2025 he founded Health Law Counsel in Denver, where he represents everyone from large health systems to medical practice, behavioral health and AI startups. He also hosts the Health Law Pulse podcast.\nHe joins Jakub Grajcar to explain how practices are actually structured - and what changes when you scale across a state line.\nWe dig into:\n🏥 John's #1 tip for growing a practice - the right tech stack, and leaders who actually know healthcare\n🏛️ Who can own a medical practice - the three corporate practice of medicine prohibitions, and the states that have some version of them\n🤝 How the MSO-PC model works\n⚖️ The Art Center Holdings case pending in California - what a ruling on share transfer restriction agreements would change, and why John is rooting for the outcome he is\n🗺️ Crossing a state line - NP and PA supervision rules, licensure, telehealth, record retention, and why most practices just apply the strictest state everywhere\n📊 The three data basics - know where your data lives, decide your institutional position on de-identified data, then put a real approval process behind it\n🤖 Adopting AI well - state disclosure rules for AI chatbots, the FDA line on clinical decision support, and keeping a human on prior auth\nResources mentioned:\n👤 Guest: Johnathan A. Rhodes - Founder, Health Law Counsel, LLC\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnrhodesjd\nWebsite: https://www.healthlawcounsel.com\n🎙️ Podcast - Health Law Pulse\nApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-law-pulse/id1864421920\nSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4vKjzL8Xr3Xdyv6uhUCuIN\n📰 Where John keeps up\nCMS listservs and rule updates: https://www.cms.gov\nHHS Office of Inspector General enforcement briefings: https://oig.hhs.gov\nDepartment of Justice press...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/cDl0t9jFckOl-1_LgMnmIWyXNTKcvr8hPfqwaY9KYeg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hNGEx/NWRhMDYxMDUxMjE3/MWIyMGU3MjZiZGZl/NjIxNS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}