LEGAL COMPLIANCE

 

National Medical Clinic, Inc.

 

A Patient Medical Services Management Organization

and National Network of Physicians

 

Medical treatments offered by National Medical Clinic, Inc. do not include the use of any controlled substances and National Medical Clinic, Inc. treating physicians do not prescribe controlled substances to its patients with regard to any National Medical Clinic, Inc. medical treatment. National Medical Clinic, Inc. does not offer online or Internet enrollment in any medical treatments. Prescriptions for non-controlled substances are issued in compliance with applicable laws by the physicians in the National Medical Clinic, Inc. network.

To enroll in a National Medical Clinic, Inc. medical treatment, a patient must phone its offices, register, enroll and be referred to a physician for physical examination, evaluation and treatment for a legitimate medical purpose in the usual course of professional practice. Patients pay a medical retainer fee for their physical examination, medical laboratory diagnostic, clinical assessment, evaluation and medical treatment plan at the time of enrollment pending a determination following assessment and evaluation by their treating physician as to whether a sought treatment is indicated.

State laws and state Medical Boards generally govern and determine what constitutes the issuance of a valid prescription for non-controlled substance prescription drugs and their distribution.

Effective April 13, 2009, federal law governs the issuance of valid prescriptions for controlled substance prescription drugs and their distribution. Such prescription drugs are not offered by National Medical Clinic, Inc. nor prescribed by its physicians for patients enrolled in its medical treatment programs.

State laws pertaining to the valid issuance of controlled substance prescriptions and the distribution of controlled substances may be pre-empted by new federal law amending section 309 of the Controlled Substance Act effective April 13, 2009, entitled the “Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008”. Therefore, federal law, rather than state law, governs and determines the validity of any controlled substance prescription and legal distribution of the controlled substance. Regulations pertaining to this new legislation shall be issued by the federal government more specifically defining the scope or effect of the new law.

The following discussion pertains primarily to the prescribing and distribution of non-controlled substance prescription drugs under state laws.

A prescription issued to a patient located in the U.S. for a non-controlled prescription drug by a U.S. licensed physician is valid (1) it issued for a legitimate medical purpose (2) in the usual course of professional practice after the patient has undergone a physical examination and evaluation.

Every state separately imposes the same basic requirement under its laws for prescribing and distributing a non-controlled substance prescription drug. Under state laws, the prescription must be issued for a valid medical purpose; the physician must be acting in the usual course of professional practice; and there must be a bona fide doctor/patient relationship. For purposes of State law, many state authorities, with the endorsement of medical societies, consider the existence of the following four elements as an indication that a legitimate doctor/patient relationship has been established:

• A patient has a medical complaint;
• A medical history has been taken;
• A physical examination has been performed; and
• Some logical connection exists between the medical complaint, the medical history, the physical examination, and the drug prescribed.

 

 

National Medical Clinic, Inc.™ (NMC), also known as National Medical™, is a national patient medical services management organization providing a national organization of licensed physicians in several states that provide excellent medical care to patients located in their respective states. The number of states included in this medical services network increases as additional physicians from new states agree to participate in providing medical services to individuals who seeking medical treatments with the assistance of National Medical Clinic, Inc.. Each participating physician is licensed to practice medicine in the state where their primary medical office is located. Some physicians may be licensed to practice medicine in multiple states. All National Medical Clinic, Inc. member physicians require that their patients undergo a physical examination, clinical assessment and diagnosis with regard to a medical complaint prior to prescribing an indicated treatment.

Controlled substance prescription drugs are not prescribed to National Medical Clinic, Inc. patients by member physicians, except for testosterone medication prescribed by some physicians some office locations. NMC member physicians prescribe testosterone for legitimate medical purposes pursuant to a valid prescription issued following the physician’s in-person evaluation of the patient and patient’s laboratory blood test report in the usual course of professional practice.

National Medical physicians determine each patient’s complaint, obtain the patient’s medical history, assess the patient’s physical exam findings in their clinical assessment of the patient and prescribe indicated medical treatment.. Today, National Medical Clinic™ medical services are provided in many states within the United States. A patient may register, enroll and pay a medical retainer fee to NMC by telephone. After telephone registration and enrollment, a patient is referred by NMC to a physician for evaluation and indicated treatment. In the event that a National Medical™ physician to whom a patient is referred declines to issue a prescribed medical treatment sought by a patient, funds paid by the patient towards the purchase of the requested medical treatment in the form of a medical retainer fee at the time of enrollment are refunded to the patient less the fees incurred in the process of securing the physician’s evaluation.

National Medical Clinic, Inc. is a national patient medical services management organization that provides a number of medical treatments to men and women in several states through its member physicians in the form of comprehensive medical treatments. National Medical Clinic, Inc. manages and delivers such medical programs based upon its management and coordination of professional services rendered by medical service providers, physicians and diagnostic medical testing laboratories to patients enrolled in such medical treatments who have retained National Medical™ to provide such services.

National Medical Clinic, Inc. relies upon member physicians to determine a patient’s medical complaint; order appropriate medical laboratory diagnostic blood testing; conduct physical examinations; obtain medial histories, perform clinical assessments, render diagnoses pertaining to the medical complaints presented and issue indicated prescribe treatments to NMC’s enrollees and physicians’ patients.

National Medical Clinic, Inc. licensed member physicians are located in several states and practice medicine in the fields of internal medicine, general medical practice, endocrinology, obstetrics and gynecology, medical weight loss, medical hair growth and other recognized medical specialties.

During the past several years, National Medical Clinic, Inc. and American Medical General, Inc. have provided excellent medical care for reasonable fees to patients through NMC’s member physicians.

NATIONAL MEDICAL CLINIC, INC. REFERS PATIENTS
TO TREATING PHYSICIANS IN SEVERAL STATES
National Medical Clinic, Inc. refers patients to physicians in many states who are members of The Patient Referral Service of The National Organization of American Physicians™. The number of member physicians and clinic locations is continually expanding to new areas of the U.S.

 

PRESCRIBING PROCEDURES ARE IN LEGAL COMPLIANCE WITH

APPLICABLE LAWS

National Medical Clinic physicians do not prescribe over the internet or telephone nor does NMC dispense any prescription drugs. Each patient must present to a physician with a medical complaint, provide a medical history and undergo a physical examination. Further, the physician must make a clinical assessment of each patient prior to prescribing treatment for the medical condition indicated. And there must be a logical connection between the patient’s medical complaint and treatment prescribed. NMC physicians do not prescribe controlled substance prescription drugs to NMC patients.

DOCTOR – PATIENT RELATIONSHIP AND PHYSICAL EXAMINATION

 

Physicians provide the following medical services:

 

1.       Identify patient’s medical complaint;

 

2.        Obtain patient’s current medical history;

 

3.       Conduct appropriate diagnostic medical tests;

 

4.       Conduct physical examination of patient;

 

5.       Evaluate any reports provided by consulting physician;

 

6.       Perform clinical assessment of patient’s medical condition;

 

7.       Consult with any consulting physician as medically appropriate;

 

8.       Diagnosis;

 

9.       Assure that there is some logical connection with regard to the patient¿s medical complaint and the treatment to be prescribed for the patient; and,

 

10.       Issue or decline to issue the sought prescribed medical treatment.

 

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FOR MORE INFORMATION

Phone Patient Services (800) 582-0095

or Contact us

NATIONAL MEDICAL CLINIC, INC.
A Patient Medical Services Management Corporation

THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS™

7491 N Federal Hwy.
Building C-5 Suite 296
Boca Raton, Florida 33487
Phone (561) 241-3412