Modern Healthcare July 27, 2019
Select groups of physicians are saying goodbye to their hospital employers, choosing instead to work for independent organizations, and leaving some experts questioning whether more will follow.
Over a six-month span, two factions of North Carolina-based doctors left their respective health systems to form or join independent physician groups.
About 90 Atrium Health doctors then employed by Atrium sued the system in April 2018 for having allegedly cut their pay and including “draconian” noncompete conditions in a new contract, ultimately spawning Tryon Medical Partners in September.