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Article: LegalEase: Using nonsolicitation, noncompete agreements.
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- Hospital Home Health
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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LegalEase
Using nonsolicitation, noncompete agreements
By Elizabeth E. Hogue, Esq.
Burtonsville, MD
Competition among home health agencies for referrals can be fierce. Agency managers are increasingly concerned about employees and independent contractors who leave agencies and take patients with them. Agencies have used a variety of strategies to combat the loss of patients to other agencies when former employees or contractors take patients with them including nonsolicitation agreements and noncompete agreements.
Nonsolicitation agreements
Nonsolicitation agreements frequently require employees and independent ...