Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physician practice organization -- Overview of regulatory issues affecting physicians -- Telemedicine -- Employment agreements and other working relationships -- Life cycle of association : the buy-in and the buy-out -- Tax principles concerning buy-outs and related post-withdrawal compensation issues -- Tax consequences resulting from choice of entity -- Practice breakups and physician departures -- Reimbursement of physician services -- Physician/hospital relationships -- Professional liability : a primer on malpractice insurance and risk management -- Physician joint ventures -- Labor and employment -- Industry relationships -- Compliance, compliance plan, and process for the physician practice -- Non-physician practitioners -- Physician ancillary services -- Physician recruitment agreements -- Physician agreements -- Background on concierge medicine -- Physician in-office drug dispensing and compounding arrangements.