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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount of expense for salary and wage arising from service rendered by officer. Excludes allocated cost, labor-related nonsalary expense, and direct and overhead labor cost included in cost of good and service sold.

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A fee charged for services from professionals such as doctors, lawyers and accountants. The term is often expanded to include other professions, for example, pharmacists charging to maintain a medicinal profile of a client or customer.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 946
-SubTopic 220
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Amount of expense for salary and wage arising from service rendered by nonofficer and officer employees. Excludes allocated cost, labor-related nonsalary expense, and direct and overhead labor cost included in cost of good and service sold.

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Related Party Transactions (Details Narrative) - USD ($)					3 Months Ended	6 Months Ended
	Apr. 09, 2021	Aug. 12, 2020	Aug. 02, 2020	Jul. 15, 2020	Jun. 30, 2020	Jun. 30, 2021	Jun. 30, 2020
Collaborative Arrangement and Arrangement Other than Collaborative [Line Items]
Aggregate annual compensation	$ 775,000
Eric Forman [Member]
Collaborative Arrangement and Arrangement Other than Collaborative [Line Items]
Professional fees					$ 12,000		$ 24,000
Director [Member]
Collaborative Arrangement and Arrangement Other than Collaborative [Line Items]
Compensatipon for non officer directors	20,000
Chairman Of Audit Committee [Member]
Collaborative Arrangement and Arrangement Other than Collaborative [Line Items]
Compensatipon for non officer directors	10,000
Chairman Of Other Committees [Member]
Collaborative Arrangement and Arrangement Other than Collaborative [Line Items]
Compensatipon for non officer directors	5,000
Member Of Audit Committee [Member]
Collaborative Arrangement and Arrangement Other than Collaborative [Line Items]
Compensatipon for non officer directors	5,000
Member Of Other Committees [Member]
Collaborative Arrangement and Arrangement Other than Collaborative [Line Items]
Compensatipon for non officer directors	$ 2,500
Employment Agreement [Member] \| Dr. Kovach [Member]
Collaborative Arrangement and Arrangement Other than Collaborative [Line Items]
Compensatipon for non officer directors				$ 250,000	15,000		30,000
Employment Agreement [Member] \| Dr. James S. Miser, M.D [Member]
Collaborative Arrangement and Arrangement Other than Collaborative [Line Items]
Compensatipon for non officer directors			$ 150,000
Increase in annual salary						$ 175,000
Employment Agreement [Member] \| Eric J. Forman [Member]
Collaborative Arrangement and Arrangement Other than Collaborative [Line Items]
Compensatipon for non officer directors		$ 120,000
Increase in annual salary						175,000
Employment Agreement [Member] \| Robert N. Weingarten [Member]
Collaborative Arrangement and Arrangement Other than Collaborative [Line Items]
Compensatipon for non officer directors		$ 120,000
Increase in annual salary						$ 175,000
Employment Agreement [Member] \| Mr. Weingarten [Member]
Collaborative Arrangement and Arrangement Other than Collaborative [Line Items]
Compensatipon for non officer directors					$ 14,980		$ 47,375