Understanding Physician Employment Contracts and Compensation Agreements

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…

The Going and Coming Rule

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

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…