Health Law Advisor

Typically, when we blog about physician employment arrangements, we focus on major areas of negotiation, such as compensation, professional liability insurance and termination.  However, when the employment arrangement involves the physician, as employee, and a hospital, as employer, such as when the hospital acquires the physician's medical practice, some unique additional issues arise.  (Indeed, in a November, 2012 press release, the AMA noted that a survey of final-year residents found nearly 1/3 listed hospital employment as their first choice of practice setting.)  As ...