Hospital Employment Alternative: Lease Your Practice to a Hospital

There has been a lot of press on the trend toward hospital employment, driven from both physician candidates seeking new positions as well as hospital's desiring for employed physicians to be a go-to in-house resource.

This article from American Medical News provides an alternative to a typical hospital employment model: private practices can actually lease their practices to a hospital.

Although these terms can vary significantly, a private practice can often maintain most control over how their practice is run. Normally the hospitals lease hard-assets as opposed to purchasing the practice and creating a hospital employed situation for the physicians. Or, a lease can be an experiment for a private practice to see how it would be affected if the practice did decide eventually to sell to a hospital.

Read the full article in American Medical News, or click here:
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2011/06/13/bica0613.htm