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Clearing accessibility and privacy compliance doesn’t give a healthcare business a free pass on its advertising. From unsubstantiated claims to tracking pixels that quietly trigger privacy laws, advertising carries its own fast-evolving risks. In episode 3 of our Protecting Your Business series, LegitScript sits down with Michael Williams of Clym to explore where advertising and disclosure scrutiny is headed, and how certification keeps what patients see aligned with the care they actually get.

Most healthcare businesses think privacy starts and ends with HIPAA. But a patchwork of consumer data privacy laws, now on the books in nearly two dozen states, can apply based on where a patient is browsing from, not where the business operates. In episode 2 of our Protecting Your Business series, LegitScript sits down with Michael Williams of Clym to unpack what it actually takes to manage privacy at scale, and why it matters most in behavioral health and addiction treatment.

Many healthcare businesses treat website accessibility as a checkbox: install a widget and move on. But that leaves them exposed to a fast-growing wave of litigation and misses the bigger point. In the first episode of our Protecting Your Business series, LegitScript sits down with Michael Williams of Clym to unpack why accessibility is an ongoing responsibility, and how it connects directly to the transparency patients rely on to make informed decisions about their care.

Increasingly, the value of LegitScript Certification is being recognized by a new market: the patients and consumers making decisions about where to get their medications and care. Keep reading to understand why this is important and how you can properly identify LegitScript-certified businesses.

Even the best controls aren’t perfect. As evasion tactics evolve faster than controls can adapt, platforms must start asking more questions about the violative behavior they aren’t seeing and how they can better address a confluence of challenges to stay ahead of what’s next. Read more.

One bad account is rarely just one bad account. Pull the thread and a single bad actor can unravel an entire criminal network interwoven throughout the internet. Here’s how investigation teams track the signals, differentiate between different kinds of networks, and turn scattered clues into enforcement that sticks.

LegitScript has launched two new reporting updates to keep client portfolios safe from merchants offering unauthorized tobacco products and illegal sales to minors. Keep reading to learn how we are helping payment processors and online platforms navigate this high-risk landscape.

Prediction markets promise crowdsourced forecasting, but they’re pulling payment processors into a regulatory gray zone. The CFTC treats them as futures contracts. Several states call them gambling. That split leaves acquirers and ISOs exposed to compliance risk they didn’t sign up for. Keep reading to learn more about these merchants.

A group of state attorneys general just told major card networks to stop processing for illegal vape sellers. Learn what the letter is asking card networks to do, and the exact questions banks, ISOs, and PSPs need to answer before regulators come knocking.

Brazil has embraced digital payments faster than almost anywhere else in the world. That growth is a genuine success story — and it has created an entirely new risk landscape that payments companies and online platforms cannot afford to ignore. Read more.

Last week’s Recovery.com Marketing Summit brought behavioral health marketers together around SEO, AI, attribution, and more, but one theme ran under every session: Trust is still how patients choose care. Here are the takeaways that stood out, and what they mean for how you market your treatment services.

Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC) met to evaluate several peptide substances and make recommendations to the FDA regarding whether they should be included on the list of bulk drug substances. Keep reading to learn what this means for peptides businesses and their partners.

The better you can document a violation and your response to it, the less exposure your business carries. Keep reading to learn more about best practices for documenting violative merchant activity and how to incorporate it into your work.

The Safety Gate system in the EU is designed to find and remove dangerous products, but navigating it can be difficult. Failure to enforce these recalls can result in regulatory action and reputational damage. Learn more about Safety Gate and the products that are falling into its crosshairs.

Veterinary telehealth platforms and online pet pharmacies face the same ad platform requirements as human healthcare providers. It’s not arbitrary. Learn the three-decade regulatory history behind why, and what LegitScript Certification means for your veterinary business.