Health Care

Fresh out of training, it’s hard to get your head around compensation. The modest stipend you’ve been making won’t prepare you for what you will earn now. This means you could either underestimate or dramatically overestimate what you think you’ll get. Some practices still base compensation on the physician’s share of collections, which is a […]

A non-compete agreement—sometimes referred to as “covenant not to compete”— is a contract agreement between the employer and employee or the business and the partner. The agreement is designed to restrict one party from working in the same profession and area for a certain amount of time, thus becoming a “non-competitor.” In the medical field,

If you’ve received a job offer from a potential employer, make sure you don’t sign it before a lawyer has gone over it with you. Regulations surrounding the healthcare industry can be quite strict. This means that physician employment agreements contain things that may not be included in the physician employment contract. It’s definitely worth

As a general practitioner, it might not be the easiest thing to do. There are a lot of things you need to include in the contract, and the salary plan should be agreed upon beforehand. On the other hand, if you’re a healthcare firm and are looking to draft a contract for anything at all,

Every medical professional eventually has one payer that is rather difficult to manage. In such a situation, you’ll often find that you can’t use the contract to help you – that is unless you were involved in negotiating it. If the relationship does fall apart, you may have trouble getting the money that you lost.

Employment contracts are important. They protect the employer and employee’s agreement and ensure that all of the conditions mentioned before the hiring are met by both parties. It’s definitely a big and complicated topic, especially because they’re written in legal language that requires a good understanding of the law to read and write properly. This

After their residency, most doctors choose to work at an existing practice group, be it a hospital, clinic, or private practice. They will be given an employment contract which will outline the different obligations, responsibilities, and rights that they hold during their period of employment with that group. It will also mention what the employer

By 2030, New Jersey will have the third largest nurse shortage in the country – a shortage of more than 11,000 nurses.  This according to the US Health Resources and Services Administration. It appears that statistically, because of the recession, nurses were putting off retirement and stayed in the workforce a little longer.  Now with

Physicians should be aware that definitions contained within a physician employment contract may have one meaning today, but will have a very different practical effect years from now. One of the most importation components of a physician employment agreement is the non-competition provision.  Those provisions typically provide that the physicians may not engage in competing

Recently, the New Jersey State Assembly voted unanimously to advance the latest version of a Bill that would enable the Garden State to sign on to a growing collaboration that already includes Delaware, Maryland and most of the Southeast.  The Bill was sponsored by Democrat Herb Conoway, Jr. who presented the Bill in June of