Month: July 2024

July 25, 2024

MICHAEL MCAULIFF   

Envision Healthcare, a top private equity-backed emergency physician staffing company, is exiting California and avoiding a lawsuit that threatened the legality of its business model in the state.

The Nashville, Tennessee-based company had been battling the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, which sued in 2021 after Envision Healthcare won a contract that the American Academy of Emergency Medicine Physician Group previously held at Placentia-Linda Hospital in Placentia, part of the Orange-based University of California, Irvine Health system.

July 22, 2024

BROCK E.W. TURNER   
HAYLEY DESILVA   
GABRIEL PERNA 

Health systems and hospitals expect many applications, computers and other systems to be back online early this week after Friday’s global CrowdStrike outage.

On Sunday, large systems including Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health, Cleveland Clinic and Renton, Washington-based Providence said their systems were fully functional, or they expected them to be by Monday.

July 17, 2024

ALEX KACIK  

Health systems are rethinking their use of noncompete agreements despite a Texas court ruling that may doom the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on those employment contract provisions.

Companies are girding for more litigation, regulation and legislation seeking to limit noncompetes, even if the FTC’s effort to eliminate those agreements falls short, attorneys said. Many healthcare employers are turning to nondisclosure and nonsolicitation provisions in place of noncompete clauses that restrict employees from working for a rival organization. If employers are still using noncompetes, physicians and other healthcare workers are increasingly pushing back, employment lawyers said.