Functional & Integrative Medicine Insurance

Protecting the practices that blend conventional and integrative care

Functional and integrative medicine practices operate at the edge of conventional care, and that is exactly where the liability concentrates. A root-cause practice led by a physician, nurse practitioner, or naturopathic doctor often combines standard diagnosis with hormone and peptide protocols, high-dose IV and nutrient therapy, advanced and genetic lab testing, and in-house supplements and compounded medications — frequently on a cash-pay or membership basis. Each of those elements is a legitimate part of the model and a distinct exposure a standard medical-clinic policy was never built to underwrite. When a treatment is framed by a plaintiff or a regulator as "unproven" or "outside the standard of care," the practice needs coverage that anticipated the model rather than one that quietly excludes half of it.

Insuring a functional medicine clinic is about covering an integrative model as it actually practices, not as a conventional clinic is assumed to.

Key Risks in Operations

Professional liability around off-label, hormone, peptide, and non-standard therapies

Standard-of-care allegations when integrative treatment is second-guessed

Product liability from dispensing and recommending supplements and compounded medications

High-dose IV, nutrient, and chelation therapy complications

Regulatory exposure — state medical boards, FDA and FTC health-claim and marketing rules

Telehealth and cross-state practice exposure

HIPAA and cyber exposure on sensitive advanced-lab and genetic data

Cash-pay and membership models that reshape the billing and liability picture

The integrative model concentrates exposures a conventional clinic policy underwrites poorly.

Core Coverages

Professional Liability / Medical Malpractice — Covers claims arising from diagnosis, treatment, and the hormone, peptide, and non-standard therapies central to the practice — the defining coverage, and the one most often mis-underwritten.

Product Liability — Responds to claims from the supplements and compounded medications the practice dispenses or recommends in-house.

General Liability — Protects against third-party bodily injury and property damage at the clinic.

Regulatory Defense / Billing Errors Coverage — Helps respond to medical-board inquiries and health-claim or marketing investigations.

Cyber & Privacy Liability — Covers breaches of patient records, including sensitive advanced-lab and genetic data, and HIPAA exposure.

Commercial Property — Covers the clinic, equipment, IV and infusion supplies, and in-house inventory.

Telehealth Coverage — Addresses the cross-state and virtual-care exposure of a modern integrative practice.

Workers' Compensation, Management Liability, Umbrella / Excess Liability — Round out the program for staff, leadership, and larger limits.

What's Commonly Overlooked

Functional and integrative medicine programs are often weakened by:

Malpractice coverage that excludes hormone, peptide, or "unproven" therapies central to the practice

No product liability for in-house supplements and compounded medications

No regulatory-defense response for a medical-board or FTC inquiry

Thin cyber limits for sensitive genetic and advanced-lab data

Telehealth and cross-state practice left unaddressed

Coverage written as if the clinic were a conventional primary-care office

These gaps typically surface at claim time — not before.

A patient alleges a hormone or peptide protocol caused harm

An integrative treatment is challenged as outside the standard of care

A dispensed supplement or compounded medication leads to a product claim

An IV or nutrient therapy results in a complication

A medical board or the FTC opens an inquiry into treatments or marketing claims

A single excluded-therapy claim can leave the practice defending itself alone.

Why Proper Placement Matters

Coverage varies significantly based on:

The scope of services — hormones, peptides, IV therapy, chelation, and testing

Provider type — physician, nurse practitioner, or naturopathic doctor

Whether supplements and compounded medications are dispensed in-house

Telehealth and the states where patients are seen

The cash-pay or membership structure of the practice

Improper placement can leave the integrative therapies — the core of the practice — excluded exactly where a claim is most likely.

Our Approach

At Cory Washington & Co., we insure functional and integrative medicine the way it actually practices: malpractice written to include the hormone, peptide, and non-standard therapies at the center of the model, product liability for what the clinic dispenses, and regulatory, cyber, and telehealth coverage around the rest. For adjacent wellness models, see our IV hydration and wellness clinic, weight loss clinic, medical spa, and medical clinic pages.

Practice the whole-person model. Insure the whole practice.

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