Legal and Regulatory Compliance

• Choosing the Best Legal Structure for your Practice

• What’s in a Name? Learn How Trademarks Can Protect Your Practice

• Duty to Protect: Roles and Responsibilities for Psychologists (PDF, 513KB)
• Dealing with Threatening Client Encounters (PDF, 355KB)
• Steps to Understanding Your Duty to Protect (PDF, 255KB)
• Roles and Responsibilities for Psychologists (PDF, 513KB)
• Reporting Child Abuse & Neglect (PDF, 256KB)
• A Matter of Law: Psychologists' Duty to Protect

• Countdown to ICD-10-CM: Substance use disorders and ICD-10-CM coding
• Dealing with Managed Care Audits (PDF, 648KB)
• Transition to ICD-10-CM: What does it mean for psychologists?
• A Matter of Law: Managing Your Managed Care Contracts
• Using a Sliding Fee Scale: Some Do's and Don'ts (PDF, 255KB) 
• A Matter of Law: Prompt Pay Laws
• A Matter of Law: Managed Care Record Audits

• FAQs on antitrust issues for alternative practice models
• Avoiding Antitrust Problems (PDF, 191KB)
• Avoiding antitrust issues on Listservs
• APA and APA Practice Organization Antitrust Policy for Listservs HTML | PDF (184KB)
• Acting in Light of Antitrust Law

• Understanding Licensing Board Disciplinary Procedures (CAPP/BPA 2003)

• Detailed or lean therapy records?
• APA Record Keeping Guidelines
• HIPAA Special Issue — Good Practice Winter 07 “Practitioners: Take note" (PDF, 203KB)
• A Matter of Law: Patient Record Keeping, Part 1
• A Matter of Law: Patient Record Keeping, Part 2

• Requests for Test Data and Materials: Respond with Care (PDF, 315KB)
• “Iowa Supreme Court creates precedent on access to children's records”
• A Matter of Law: Privacy Rights of Minor Patients

• Providing information in a patient's lawsuit: FAQs on subpoenas and depositions
• “How to deal with a subpoena: Pointers for psychologists” Good Practice, Fall 2008 issue (PDF, 572KB)

• Are You Prepared for the Unexpected?

New law narrows application of Red Flags Rule
Successful advocacy by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the APA Practice Organization protected members from unnecessary regulation under the Red Flags Rule.