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When a buyer evaluates a physician group, due diligence reveals where the group's value truly lies. But what happens if the buyer walks away and later recruits the physicians and staff it identified during the process?

A side deal entered into by a single physician-owner can have consequences beyond that individual's interests, and affect the group as a whole.

AI is creating new risks involving data ownership, liability, and governance that many medical groups have never addressed in their contracts or policies.

The DOJ has issued new guidance explaining how prosecutors will decide whether to charge a business for employee misconduct. For healthcare organizations, understanding those factors may be critical to reducing enforcement risk. Sign up to receive complimentary educational materials at: http://www.weisspc.com/subscribe http://www.weisspc.com

Many physician groups view contract negotiations as something that happens every few years. In reality, negotiations never stop. The conversations, metrics, and decisions taking place today may determine the terms of your next hospital agreement.

If controlling physician practices is the problem, why do proposed corporate practice of medicine reforms target private equity while largely exempting nonprofit hospital systems?

State regulators are cracking down on physicians who serve as medical directors in name only. If you’re collecting a fee but providing little or no actual oversight, your medical license could be at risk.

Most physicians charged under the Anti-Kickback Statute aren't criminal masterminds. They're busy professionals who signed agreements they never fully vetted. Here's why medical directorships, consulting arrangements, and referral relationships deserve a second look before the DOJ does it for you.

Most healthcare organizations sign Business Associate Agreements simply to satisfy HIPAA requirements. That’s a mistake. A well-drafted BAA does far more than check a compliance box. It allocates risk, determines responsibility after a breach, and protects your medical group’s financial and operational interests.

As AI approaches autonomous clinical decision-making, healthcare faces new legal and regulatory questions.

Physicians and medical groups should understand the compliance risks before becoming unintended targets of government scrutiny.

What if physician burnout isn't about resilience at all? A different look at ownership, autonomy, and incentives.

California’s crackdown on the friendly physician model may signal broader risks for MSOs nationwide.

Most discussions about healthcare AI focus on replacement. What if the real opportunity is the opposite? By taking administrative work off physicians' plates, AI may help restore the very thing industrialized medicine has eroded: the physician-patient relationship.

There is a wide middle ground between going it alone and giving up control, built on physician-led collaboration, shared resources, and strategic alignment.