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Get the 4-1-1 on your 1099s: 5th and 7th Circuits Permit Paying Volume-Based Compensation to Independent Sales Agents

FDA Law Blog

The Seventh Circuit took a more lenient approach than the Fourth Circuit, focusing its rationale on whether an independent contractor had improper influence over a healthcare providers independent healthcare decisions. Sorenson follows the Fifth Circuits decision last year in United States v. Marchetti, 96 F.4th Marchetti, 96 F.4th

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

I was suicidal myself as a physician and I survived that in 2004. I’m just actually providing really good primary health care. I assume most of you in here are not super specialized doing lung transplants and needing a helipad and tertiary-care hospital. Say I’m having a special. Not while I was dating them.

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