No matter which way you look at it, whether you own your own practice, become a part of a large physician group, or become an employee of a hospital, you will be signing an employment contract of some sort. Revised and updated, The Physician Employment Contract Handbook, Second Edition: A Guide to Structuring Equitable Arrangements provides sample physician employment contracts and explains how each contract works. Here are just few of the things that you will learn from The Physician Employment Contract Handbook, Second Edition: A Guide to Structuring Equitable Arrangements . Information on the latest managed care entities A review of basic concepts in fraud and abuse, corporate practice of medicine, and antitrust concerns The various legal and compliance issues related to physician employment, such as anti-self referral and anti-kickback issues Tips on how to resolve disputes through arbitration or mediation A review of the pros and cons of various partnership arrangements. Learn how to ask meaningful questions of legal and accounting counsel Review a model preliminary review and analysis of the agreement offered Learn how to compare a prospective employer’s contract to other standard agreements without endangering confidentiality agreements Review model physician employment contract terms and provisions Move into the future and take advantage of opportunities in the current healthcare reform Includes sample contracts for various organizational structures