Are you searching for a law firm with extensive experience as a California medical employer attorney in San Diego?  The Watkins Firm has served the medical practice business and healthcare industry in San Diego for over 4 decades.  California has extensive and complex laws which govern all aspects of healthcare and medical practices, as well as the employment agreements needed in a healthcare business, medical practice or Management Services Organization (MSO).

California is arguably the most challenging and complex legal and regulatory environments in which to be an employer.  Our attorneys fully understand the ever-evolving healthcare industry and the important clauses and contract structures which must be incorporated into medical employment agreements in San Diego and across California.  Our healthcare clients appreciate our extensive knowledge, legal skill and experience on these issues as well as our ability to efficiently get to the crucial issues at hand and address them.  We provide in-house HR experts you can reach with a simple phone call to get the quick answers you need.

When do you need a California medical employer attorney in San Diego or anywhere in California?  If you sense there is some change in someone who works for you, there may be potential legal issues that could open the door to a significant employment defense matter or dispute.  PAGA actions are unfortunately quite common in the medical industry as the perceived pockets are quite deep for plaintiff’s attorneys to attempt to stir up any potential legal action.

Crafting medical employment agreements in San Diego requires the legal skill necessary to prevent disputes and legal exposures before they ever come up.  It involves the ability to structure the relationship between the organization and the healthcare professional while protecting the interests of the medical business entity.

The Watkins Firm also reviews physician contracts and represents licensed physicians and medical professionals during negotiations with local and major healthcare organizations.  We work with clients to review a proposed Management Services Organization or to form an MSO of their own.  We provide insight on crucial issues while taking into consideration all aspects of the proposed relationship such as your own experience and the type of medicine or specialty practice you work within.  Our proprietary library of proven, battle-tested contracts allow us to tailor a contract or agreement to your unique specifications quickly and in a cost-efficient manner.

The Watkins Firm draws on our more than four decades of experience and the thousands of agreements and contracts we’ve developed and worked on over the years.  This isn’t something you develop from scratch.  We use proven documents from similar situations and tailor them to the unique issues at hand.  This ensures up-to-date and enforceable agreements in the most efficient and effective manner possible.

Pro-Tip: “…advising medical practices and healthcare entities –  it’s wonderful, it’s complicated, and it is completely involved unlike any other law. We’ve been doing this since the 1980s, representing doctors and healthcare entities.  Doctors in California have to be the smartest people on the planet and they operate in laws that are the most complicated for any business I’ve ever heard of. My first job I started working for an attorney named Chris Popov, who’s with me today. And that was his practice, forming, selling and buying healthcare providers, companies, forming, medical corporations, PT clinics, MRI centers, psychiatric groups that operated in multiple states, all kinds of complex medical rules and regulations. And it, it took me many, many years to learn this stuff. I’m still learning.

It’s actually continuously changing and evolving – healthcare law in California.  Healthcare laws in the US and here in California have created a complicated business process. It’s created purse strings for the federal government to go into every state, because if anyone, treats a patient that has Medicare, then they have to comply with all of the Medicare laws of the federal government. Every state has special rules and regulations. So you can imagine with all this history and all of these different parties, everybody putting something in new all the time, how complicated it is for, doctors and healthcare providers to work together, to own clinics, to own anything in the healthcare industry and also to compete, or fight off or work with large corporations or investors who want to come over and take over their companies or who want to pay them a lot of money and buy their companies. You can imagine how complicated it is and after doing it for all these years, we find it really enjoyable.

Everyone here at the Watkins Firm, all of the attorneys and the staff that support the transactions that acquire and sell all the medical practices and healthcare-related businesses we sell and merge and form every year, we find it fascinating because there’s just so many laws that apply, such a long checklist of things to look at. And, we’re one of the few, few law firms in town that can do it.” – Dan Watkins – Founding Partner

If you are searching for a California medical employer attorney in San Diego or anywhere in California with extensive experience in the healthcare industry we invite you to review our podcast Episode 7 – Medical Practices and Healthcare  as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.