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A junior physician could leave with no notice without a restrictive covenant, a senior physician could retire or die with no entitlement to a buy-out, or existing documents may be old and outdated in light of the current legal and economic environment.

MCARE has raised the profile and responsibilities of the boards and focused them on a new and far more aggressive mission.

Legislators, under pressure to provide economic relief for employers and to ensure quality health care, are for the first time in eight years giving serious consideration to reinstating the now-defunct Certificate of Need statute.

If my grandmother knew that over $4 million of her hard earned wealth was lost to taxes unnecessarily, she would be sick to her stomach.

The government has begun to focus on patient care (or lack thereof) as a compliance issue. Can the government really mean to put itself in the minds of clinicians?

An efficient e-billing process leads to a faster reimbursement turnaround, as it reduces billing errors, increases claim submission throughput, and improves claim acceptance rates.

With the finalization of the joint venture safe harbors and greater certainty in the Office of Inspector General’s position regarding joint ventures, there has been a revival of physician-hospital ventures.

A defined benefit plan will be attractive to a physician practice in which the physician is moderately close to retirement and has experienced a longer period of service, particularly in those cases in which the other participants are not close to retirement and have not experienced longer periods of service.