The hospital lobby is hoping the Federal Trade Commission’s narrowed scrutiny of employers’ noncompete contracts will focus on healthcare’s “lower-skilled, lower-wage employees” rather than physicians or hospital executives. The Republican-led federal regulator, in a clear break from the more sweeping views of its prior iteration, has signaled its interest in “case-by-case” enforcement of employment contracts with mobility restrictions it deems to be anticompetitive. The American Hospital Association (AHA), responding this week to a request for information (RFI) on how the regulator should shape its new approach, said it broadly agreed with the case-by-case enforcement plan and preference for “narrowly tailored noncompetes.”
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Source: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/hospital-lobby-again-petitions-ftc-exclude-doctors-hospital-execs-noncompete-enforcement