Private Equity Healthcare Under FTC Scrutiny
Selling your healthcare practice or facility to private equity? Not so fast! Over the past
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Selling your healthcare practice or facility to private equity? Not so fast! Over the past
Outside factors that have impacted the viability of private practices have been well documented over
It is now well beyond standard practice for independent professional practices and healthcare systems to require their employed physicians to execute non-competition provisions as part of their employment relationship.
We addressed a similar question in an earlier article. At that time, we discussed the issue of whether a Medical Staff can have standing to sue its own hospital. We cautioned in that article to “be careful what you ask for.”
The award of punitive damages is a troubling and unpredictable part of the American judicial process. The term “punitive damages” refers to the award of monetary compensation to an injured party that goes beyond what is necessary to compensate the injured party for their actual loss (in other words, these are non-compensatory damages that are included to “punish” a party for their wrongful conduct and/or as a deterrent for future conduct).
Can a Medical Staff sue its own Hospital? Apparently so. In Medical Staff of Avera