Vital Signs: A Risk Management Guide to Employee Handbooks, Policies, and Employment Agreements for Health Care Employers

Health care employers face a unique set of legal and operational challenges that generic HR templates cannot adequately address.

From corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) restrictions to complex physician compensation models, the rules governing health care employment relationships require in-depth knowledge and careful drafting.

Join us for a practical, risk-focused webinar designed to help health care employers—including hospitals, medical groups, and other health care entities—strengthen their employee handbooks, HR policies, and employment agreements. We'll explore why health care workplaces demand a different approach, walk through the essential components of compliant handbooks and physician employment agreements, and address critical issues such as CPOM considerations, compensation structures, HIPAA obligations, restrictive covenants, and termination provisions.

Whether you're drafting a new physician agreement, updating your handbook, or simply want to ensure your current policies hold up under scrutiny, this session will equip you with actionable strategies to reduce risk and protect your organization.

Key Takeaways

1. Understanding health care’s unique regulatory landscape, including CPOM restrictions, is essential before drafting or updating handbooks and agreements.
2. Health care employers face compliance obligations that are distinct from other industries. Generic handbooks and employment policies optimized for non-health care businesses (e.g., financial or professional services) may create unnecessary risk. Health care employers need policies tailored to address licensure, credentialing, patient care obligations, and other industry-specific concerns.
3. Physician employment agreements require specialized provisions. Compensation structures, exclusivity clauses, malpractice tail coverage, and restrictive covenants, as well as other key terms must be carefully negotiated and drafted to comply with CPOM, evolving non-compete bans, and other state laws that create rules specific to health care providers.

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CLE Accreditation

CA: 1.0 General
NY: 1.0 Professional Practice
PA: 1.0 General

Epstein Becker Green is an accredited provider for CLE credit in California, New York and Pennsylvania. This program is approved for the above-listed CLE credit. Credit is pending in Illinois.

CLE credit for this program is available to viewers of the initial live broadcast only. No credit will be granted for on demand viewing.

About HEAL®

The Health Employment and Labor (HEAL®) strategic industry group unites two of the firm’s practices—Health Care and Employment, Labor & Workforce Management—to help health care and life sciences companies address the many challenges they face in the labor, employment, and workforce management area.