As the healthcare landscape changes, the role and content of physician employment contracts has changed
, too. The new environment requires protections for employers and employees. In two publications, we address new provisions and potential pitfalls that lurk in the employment context. In "
The Modern Employment Agreement" Alice and Dan present typical provisions that meet today's new requirements, such as with respect to compliance, HIPAA, and post-payment audits, addressing what older style agreements have included as well. In "
Avoiding landmines when signing a hospital contract" Alice elucidates some of the special problems that can occur when physicians become employed by the hospital, a health system or its affiliated medical group. None of this is your father's handshake of yore.