Legal Scrubs

Episode 37 - Why Every Medical Practice Needs a Strong Employee Policy Manual. Yesterday!

Episode 36 - Tennessee Physicians and Non-Competes

Episode 35 - Selling a Dental Practice and What to Think About in Allocating the Purchase Price to Different Assets for Tax Savings

Episode 34 - Why an LLC that Elects S Corporation Status Might Be the Right Choice of Entity for Your Healthcare Practice

HIPAA and Recent Developments

Season 3, Episode 1 - Physicians in Group Practices Need to Review their Operating Agreements Now

Season 2, Episode 22 - The Health and Human Services OIG Issues a New Fraud Alert on Speaker Programs

Season 2, Episode 21 - Doctors Must Understand their HIPAA Obligations to Provide Copies of Medical Records to Patients upon their Request

Season 2, Episode 20 - Today's Million Dollar Tip

Season 2, Episode 19 - Doctors, Don't Fail to Make Sure That Your Employment Agreement Protects You with Tail Insurance Coverage

Season 2, Episode 18 - Doctors Who Want to Sell Their Medical Practices to Other Doctors Need to Understand this Safe Harbor from the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute

Season 2, Episode 17 - Doctors and Dentists in Solo Medical or Dental Practices Need to Be Proactive in their Business Succession Planning

Unless a doctor starts his/her own practice, then every doctor coming out of residency is going to be faced with a new and incredibly important milestone experience--being asked to sign an employment agreement with the hospital or medical group that will that doctor's new employer. One of the most significant provisions that almost certainly will be in that employment agreement is a non-compete provision. Every doctor without exception needs to understand what the non-compete provision in their employment agreement means and how its restrictions may impact that doctor's future. This applies even for doctors who have been in practice for a while and periodically have to "re-up" with their employing facility or group. Today's podcast episode of Legal Scrubs discusses and explains the Tennessee rules on physician non-competes.

Season 2, Episode 16 - What Tennessee Physicians Need to Know about Non-Compete Clauses in their Employment Agreements

Season 2, Episode 15 - Buy-Sell Agreements

If you're a physician with an independent medical practice, there's a good chance that you have at least one or more employees on your staff and that you have a written personnel manual or written employee policies and procedures. If so, then you should listen to today's podcast to learn 4 specific and actionable tips that you should take right now to possibly avoid an employment law problem when and if you have to fire one of your employees.

Season 2, Episode 14 - 4 Key Actions Doctors Need to Take Right Now to Avoid a Possible Employment Law Problem with a Fired Employee

Doctors, dentists, and nurses are great at providing healthcare services to their patients--but the modern delivery of healthcare is a business. Legal Scrubs helps healthcare professionals and solo and small healthcare practices be better at the business side of healthcare (and stay legally compliant at the same time).