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  • videocam Live Webinar with Live Q&A
  • calendar_month May 13, 2026 @ 1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT
  • signal_cellular_alt Intermediate
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  • schedule 90 minutes

Healthcare Employment Agreements: Key Provisions, Compliance Considerations, Certification

Stark and AKS, Credentialing and Privileging, Noncompete Provisions, Payment Challenges

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About the Course

Introduction

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 enforceable healthcare employment agreements.

Description

Physicians and other healthcare practitioners continue to enter employment agreements with their employers, whether hospitals, clinics, or private practices. When drafting employment agreements, counsel should pay attention to several key areas.

Healthcare providers must fully comply with relevant laws and anticipate potential areas of dispute, including concerns under the Stark Law. Additionally, counsel must consider board certification, credentialing, and privileging when structuring the agreement, as they can impact the salary and timing of the contract.

Furthermore, even though the FTC has abandoned its noncompete rule banning employer noncompete agreements, the agency is continuing targeted enforcement and states have been increasingly regulating noncompetition restrictions. Therefore, counsel must be careful when drafting noncompetition and other restrictive covenants.

Listen as our authoritative panel of healthcare attorneys examines the essential aspects, clauses, and terms common to healthcare employment agreements. The panel will address noncompete provisions, compliance considerations, and payment issues. The panel will offer best practices for structuring enforceable healthcare employment agreements.

Presented By

Margaret J. Davino
Partner
Fox Rothschild LLP

Ms. Davino handles a broad spectrum of healthcare matters, including transactional, compliance, contractual, corporate, regulatory, governance, managed care/payer (including value-based arrangements) and risk management issues. Her clients include hospitals, physicians and physician groups, startup companies, FQHCs, home care agencies, pharmacies, laboratories, agencies for the developmentally disabled, care management companies, billing companies, nonprofit companies, health care IT vendors, telehealth providers, concierge medicine providers, alternative medicine entities, and a variety of other providers and entities in the healthcare space. Ms. Davino handles joint ventures, sales and acquisitions of practices and companies; formation of new entities and practices; structuring arrangements and relationships between healthcare entities; telehealth; bylaws and governance matters; physician-hospital contracts; affiliation and/or service contracts; employment agreements; managed care issues; IT contracts and issues; regulatory compliance; HIPAA; medical staff affairs; captive PCs and faculty practices; separation agreements; ambulatory surgery center joint ventures; CARES Act issues, and physician disciplinary matters.

Adam N. Hirsch
Partner
SFBBG

Mr. Hirsch focuses his practice on commercial and business litigation, representing a wide variety of clients ranging from individuals to small business owners to large corporations. He has a particular focus on investment disputes and business fraud claims and has represented investors and investment companies as plaintiffs and defendants in lawsuits around the country. Mr. Hirsch regularly writes and presents on current issues relating to business fraud. He also has extensive experience litigating contract disputes and has argued and tried multi-million dollar contract issues before judges and juries nationwide. Mr. Hirsch also has experience in advising clients in employment disputes relating to matters such as separation, severance, non-solicitation, and noncompete agreements.

Amy Shulman
Partner
Outten & Golden LLP

Ms. Shulman is a litigator, adviser, and transactional lawyer who advocates for executives and professionals across a wide range of industries, including healthcare, financial services, media, and biotech. She has more than twenty years of experience litigating whistleblower retaliation claims, international employment law issues, breach of contract claims, family and medical leave and disability discrimination disputes, other types of discrimination and retaliation claims, and non-compete cases in federal and state courts and arbitrations.

Credit Information
  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.


  • Live Online


    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Wednesday, May 13, 2026

  • schedule

    1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT

I. Key provisions

II. Compliance considerations

A. Stark

B. AKS

III. Payment issues

IV. Federal and state noncompete regulation

V. Best practices for structuring agreements

The panel will review these and other key issues:

  • What are the regulatory challenges facing healthcare providers and medical practices in employment contracts?
  • What are the issues for physician and employer counsel when addressing restrictive covenants in employment?
  • What are the most commonly disputed issues during contract negotiations and practical approaches for resolving them?