Becker's Healthcare December 28, 2023
President Joe Biden’s administration has been critical of noncompetes, particularly in healthcare, and some states have taken action to ban them. However, policy changes at the federal level haven’t been enacted yet.
Heading into the final year of Mr. Biden’s first term, physicians are watching closely to see how the federal government will proceed.
“Everybody is eagerly awaiting some resolution on the issue of noncompetes,” Manoj Mehta, MD, medical director at Endoscopy Center of the North Shore in Wilmette, Ill., told Becker’s. “While this might take much longer than the FTC has projected, it will fundamentally change the landscape of how medicine operates.”
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