by Dan Smith | Jun 15, 2018 | Health Professionals' Business Blog
To all you physicians out there, listen, I get it. You’re busy practicing medicine, doing your job, your time is limited, and you can’t be in two places at once. And you certainly can’t look out for everything that is going on in the back office all...
by Dan Smith | Jun 13, 2018 | Health Professionals' Business Blog
I was reading some interesting statistics today about the practice of medicine. It used to be that doctors who graduated from medical school and finished their residencies went into private practice alone or in small groups. Nowadays, that is not the case. Hospitals...
by Dan Smith | Apr 19, 2018 | Health Professionals' Business Blog
Are you a doctor just coming out of your residency and getting an offer for a job with medical group? What are some of the key provisions for the physician employment agreement? And what type of issues should you be willing (or not willing) to negotiate? Compensation....
by Dan Smith | Apr 4, 2017 | Health Professionals' Business Blog
In the case of Edwards v. Urosite Partners, the Tennessee Court of Appeals was presented with an interesting fact situation involving a physician and a real estate investment limited partnership. Dr. Edwards was a partner in a medical group of urologists in the...
by Dan Smith | Apr 4, 2017 | Health Professionals' Business Blog
On February 16, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a public notice that Memorial Healthcare System had paid HHS $5.5 million to settle potential violations of HIPAA’s Privacy and Security Rules. Memorial Healthcare System is a nonprofit...
by Dan Smith | Jan 18, 2017 | Health Professionals' Business Blog
It is quite common that a physician chooses to acquire an ownership interest in an ambulatory surgery center. I have been involved in a number of transactions involving just this sort of thing. The reasons that doctors buy in to ambulatory surgery centers are varied....
