Health Law Advisor

Our Epstein Becker Green colleagues have released a new Take 5 newsletter: “Five Labor and Employment Issues Faced by Health Care Employers,” by Michael F. McGahan, D. Martin Stanberry, and Daniel J. Green.  Below is an excerpt:

As the Affordable Care Act and the challenges of reimbursement and funding for health care services drive changes in the health care delivery system and employment in the industry, new issues in labor and employment law are arising.   This month’s Take 5 addresses five of these new and important issues…

1. NLRB’s Proposed Changes to Its Union Election ...

For a physician who has spent his or her whole professional life developing and growing a medical practice, the process of selling that practice can be a traumatic experience.  Typically, the physician may focus on the short term, attempting to maximize the price at which the practice will be purchased and the applicable payment terms.  However, the long term happiness of the selling physician may depend less on the size of the purchase price at which the practice is sold, and more on how well the physician negotiates the terms and conditions of employment following the acquisition ...