Healthcare Employment Agreements: Key Provisions, Compliance Considerations, Certification
Stark and AKS, Credentialing and Privileging, Noncompete Provisions, Payment Challenges
Recording of a 90-minute CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE webinar will guide healthcare counsel on the key aspects and provisions common to healthcare employment agreements. The panel will address noncompete provisions, compliance considerations, and payment issues. The panel will offer best practices for structuring healthcare employment agreements.
Outline
- Key provisions
- Compliance considerations
- Stark
- AKS
- Payment issues
- Best practices for structuring agreements
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- What are the regulatory challenges facing healthcare providers and medical practices in employment contracts?
- How can restrictive covenants in employment agreements be structured to avoid being struck down as overly broad and unenforceable?
- What are the most commonly disputed issues during contract negotiations and practical approaches for resolving them?
Faculty

Thomas E. Dutton
Partner
Jones Day
For 38 years, Mr. Dutton has helped hospitals, health systems, insurance companies, and large physician groups design... | Read More
For 38 years, Mr. Dutton has helped hospitals, health systems, insurance companies, and large physician groups design and successfully implement cutting-edge integration and delivery strategies. He has led deal teams in innovative service line revenue mergers; dozens of hospital, HMO, insurance company, and clinical laboratory mergers, acquisitions, and joint operating agreements; statewide/multistate health system collaboratives; and distressed company transactions. Mr. Dutton has handled dozens of specialty/primary care physician practice acquisitions, including physician private equity transactions, and developed regulatory-compliant physician employment compensation models, created dozens of provider-based clinics and co-management arrangements, developed accountable care organizations (ACOs) and advised regarding the use of ACO waivers, and implemented every type of physician-hospital joint venture. Mr. Dutton is a frequent lecturer at national conferences on the latest models for physician-hospital integration and has authored numerous articles on health law-related topics.
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Jayme R. Matchinski
Officer
Greensfelder Hemker & Gale
Ms. Matchinski draws on her extensive experience in health and corporate law to help healthcare companies handle the... | Read More
Ms. Matchinski draws on her extensive experience in health and corporate law to help healthcare companies handle the complex regulatory and operational issues unique to the industry. She assists with compliance, reimbursement, licensure and certification issues affecting healthcare providers, as well as with the purchase, sale and formation of healthcare entities. Ms. Matchinski, the former vice president of a national healthcare consulting firm, has successfully represented providers in reimbursement claims against insurance carriers and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She works with physicians and healthcare systems in the licensure, certification, legal structure and reimbursement structuring of post-acute venues of care.
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