An article in the June 9 issue of Part B News, “To ease doctor-departing woes, write careful terms into the contract,” discussed best practices for medical practices’ employment contracts with their physician employees. Rivkin Radler’s Norton Travis was quoted in the article.
Norton suggested that practices try to enforce restrictive covenants where possible. “If it’s known within the organization that Dr. Jones was able to get out of his contract without being held to the covenant, then you don’t want to create a precedent where other people feel like they can [get the same terms],” he said. He also advised practices to speak to departing employees because even if they cannot be dissuaded from leaving, the conversations might reveal issues with “recruitment of support staff, marketing of the physician’s services, poor billing/collections or something that is negatively impacting the practice.”
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