Leaving a physician position is not always as simple as giving notice. Your employment agreement may contain termination requirements, restrictive covenants, repayment obligations, and other terms that continue after you leave. Understanding those provisions before you resign can help you avoid unexpected restrictions or financial obligations.
Thinking about starting a private medical practice? This guide covers the legal and regulatory considerations physicians should address when starting their own practice, from entity formation and ownership to contracts, HIPAA, credentialing, leases, and state-specific requirements.
Clinical research is no longer limited to large hospitals and academic medical centers. Small medical practices can participate in clinical trials. Doing so requires careful attention to FDA regulations, IRB oversight, informed consent, HIPAA compliance, and liability management.
Concierge and DPC practices may use an MSO for administrative and management functions, but the structure must preserve appropriate control over clinical matters. Learn what to consider when structuring the relationship between the practice and the MSO.
The First Amendment protects individuals from government restrictions on speech, but those protections generally do not apply to private employers. Learn how private healthcare practices can address employee speech while respecting workplace rights and maintaining patient trust.
Moving an established medical practice to a concierge model requires careful planning. Physicians need to address payor contracts, existing patients, membership agreements, Medicare, practice structure, and state-specific requirements before making the transition.
Texas takes a different approach to nurse practitioner practice than states that allow broad independent practice. This guide explains physician delegation, collaborative agreements, prescriptive authority, and the requirements Texas NPs should understand.
Physicians considering concierge medicine need to understand how Medicare participation, private contracts, membership fees, and Medicare opt-out rules affect their practice model.
Many private practices assume HIPAA compliance begins and ends with policies and forms. However, maintaining compliance requires ongoing risk assessments, workforce training, vendor management, and breach response planning.
Direct primary care allows physicians to provide defined primary care services in exchange for recurring fees paid directly by patients. But starting a DPC practice without taking insurance requires careful attention to Medicare, state insurance laws, patient agreements, and practice structure.
