UNDERSTANDING PHYSICIAN EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS AND COMPENSATION AGREEMENTS Employment compensation and contracts can be difficult to understand. Whether seeking employment with a group practice, hospital, academic medical center or other setting, a physician must understand employment contracts to properly evaluate the actual employment offer. A typical employment contract can contain items that seem harmless until you…
Demystifying the Going and Coming Rule (Workers’ Compensation) The “going and coming” rule applies to the situation where a worker gets injured while on his or her way to or from work. Ordinarily, an injury sustained while a worker is going to or coming from work is not considered to have occurred “in the course…
ADJACENT SEGMENT DISEASE: HOW CAN IT IMPACT YOUR WORKERS’ COMPENSATION CLAIM? Adjacent segment disease has become a common topic in spine surgery circles because of the significant increase in fusion surgery in recent years. However, in spite of achieving successful fusion in spinal surgery, a long-term follow-up after a solid fusion may reveal degenerative changes…