After having represented medical groups with a particular emphasis on hospital-based groups for 30 years, it has become strikingly clear that what distinguishes the most successful groups, from the great majority of the mediocre.

Medical group organizers generally confine their entity's business structure to a corporate or partnership type entity and then proceed to conduct business through it.

People are internally inconsistent. Many contracts in the healthcare sphere are inconsistent, too. The first causes grief, the second shifts power.

The volleys in this battle move slowly--think pendulum as opposed to ping-pong. And right now, despite the appeal, the pendulum is still on the side of “state law controls”.

Uncover the history of the whistleblower provisions in the False Claims Act and their significance in fighting fraud.

Fueled by the failure of large medical groups, the disappointments of hospital employment, and the ratcheting down of care by private equity, physicians are increasingly seeking alternatives to their current practice arrangements.

The “friendly physician.” Boy, is that’s a term of art or, perhaps better said, of artifice.

There is no such thing as static demand for services over a contract’s multi-year term, and it’s a fool’s bet, yet one many take, to believe that one can place a set value on total fair market value.

Cars go in reverse. So do ceiling fans and electric drills. But did you know that kickbacks go in reverse, too, and that there’s no safe harbor for that?

There’s a good chance that you can accomplish some or all of what a covenant not to compete addresses, even if the “law” says you can’t.