Competition From Within Archives - Wisdom. Applied. https://blog.weisspc.com/category/competition-from-within/ Wisdom Applied - Decoding the Business of Healthcare — Mark Weiss’s Perspective Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:32:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 183918279 The FTC Just Told You Exactly What It’s Looking For. Is Your Noncompete on the List? https://blog.weisspc.com/ftc-noncompete-enforcement-physician-groups/ https://blog.weisspc.com/ftc-noncompete-enforcement-physician-groups/#respond Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:08:41 +0000 https://blog.weisspc.com/?p=37024 The FTC has abandoned a blanket ban on noncompetes, but is aggressively enforcing them in healthcare. What physician groups and physicians need to know now.

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]]> https://blog.weisspc.com/ftc-noncompete-enforcement-physician-groups/feed/ 0 37024 Non-Competes After the FTC’s Pivot: A Balancing Act for Medical Group Leaders https://blog.weisspc.com/ftc-noncompete-strategy-medical-groups/ https://blog.weisspc.com/ftc-noncompete-strategy-medical-groups/#respond Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:56:02 +0000 https://blog.weisspc.com/?p=36062 Medical group leaders: the FTC may have buried its noncompete ban, but it’s sharpening its knives. Your contracts are now targets. Don’t wait to be caught off guard—rethink your agreements now. Tailor them to your market, protect your referral streams, and stay out of the FTC’s crosshairs. Strategic action isn’t optional—it’s survival.

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]]> https://blog.weisspc.com/ftc-noncompete-strategy-medical-groups/feed/ 0 36062 The FTC Buries Its Ban on Non-Competes, But Sharpens its Aim on Violations https://blog.weisspc.com/ftc-noncompete-enforcement-healthcare/ https://blog.weisspc.com/ftc-noncompete-enforcement-healthcare/#respond Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:57:21 +0000 https://blog.weisspc.com/?p=35873 FTC ditches a full non-compete ban, but healthcare employers still face targeted crackdowns. Physician groups, take note.

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]]> https://blog.weisspc.com/ftc-noncompete-enforcement-healthcare/feed/ 0 35873 Federal Trade Commission Seek to Reimpose Nationwide Ban on Non-Competes https://blog.weisspc.com/ftc-seek-to-reimpose-noncompete-ban/ https://blog.weisspc.com/ftc-seek-to-reimpose-noncompete-ban/#respond Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:26:31 +0000 https://blog.weisspc.com/?p=31411 The volleys in this battle move slowly--think pendulum as opposed to ping-pong. And right now, despite the appeal, the pendulum is still on the side of “state law controls”.

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]]> https://blog.weisspc.com/ftc-seek-to-reimpose-noncompete-ban/feed/ 0 31411 The Better Way For Medical Groups To Look At Covenants Not To Compete https://blog.weisspc.com/the-better-medical-group-look-at-covenants-not-to-compete/ https://blog.weisspc.com/the-better-medical-group-look-at-covenants-not-to-compete/#respond Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:02:21 +0000 https://blog.weisspc.com/?p=31373 There’s a good chance that you can accomplish some or all of what a covenant not to compete addresses, even if the “law” says you can’t.

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]]> https://blog.weisspc.com/the-better-medical-group-look-at-covenants-not-to-compete/feed/ 0 31373 You Need to Know What the Order Striking the FTC’s Ban on Non-Competes Means for You https://blog.weisspc.com/you-need-to-know-what-ftc-noncompetes/ https://blog.weisspc.com/you-need-to-know-what-ftc-noncompetes/#respond Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:44:04 +0000 https://blog.weisspc.com/?p=31355 Despite the fact that some states have strong prohibitions against the enforcement of non-competes, there are still ways to create agreements functioning as proxies for non-competes.

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]]> https://blog.weisspc.com/you-need-to-know-what-ftc-noncompetes/feed/ 0 31355 Why Trying to Protect Your Group’s Position Is Destroying Your Future – Podcast https://blog.weisspc.com/protecting-medical-group-position-destroying-future-audio/ https://blog.weisspc.com/protecting-medical-group-position-destroying-future-audio/#respond Thu, 08 Jun 2023 10:45:00 +0000 https://blog.weisspc.com/?p=29845 Adopting a purely defensive position can never advance your or your medical group’s future.

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]]> https://blog.weisspc.com/protecting-medical-group-position-destroying-future-audio/feed/ 0 29845 FTC Proposes to Ban Worker Non-Competes https://blog.weisspc.com/ftc-ban-worker-noncompetes-healthcare/ https://blog.weisspc.com/ftc-ban-worker-noncompetes-healthcare/#respond Mon, 09 Jan 2023 16:58:42 +0000 https://blog.weisspc.com/?p=28396 Whether one chooses to see it as a pretext or as a context, the FTC maintains that non-competes are a form of unfair competition...

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]]> https://blog.weisspc.com/ftc-ban-worker-noncompetes-healthcare/feed/ 0 28396 Why Trying To Protect Your Group’s Position Is Destroying Your Future – Medical Group Minute https://blog.weisspc.com/protecting-medical-group-position-destroying-future-video/ https://blog.weisspc.com/protecting-medical-group-position-destroying-future-video/#respond Wed, 03 Feb 2021 12:00:00 +0000 https://blog.weisspc.com/?p=19919 Adopting a purely defensive position can never advance your or your medical group’s future.

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]]> https://blog.weisspc.com/protecting-medical-group-position-destroying-future-video/feed/ 0 19919 Fiduciary Duties, Errant Partners, and Third-Party Liability. https://blog.weisspc.com/fiduciary-duties-errant-partners-and-third-party-liability/ https://blog.weisspc.com/fiduciary-duties-errant-partners-and-third-party-liability/#respond Mon, 20 Jul 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://blog.weisspc.com/?p=19036 A seemingly unrelated Delaware case from the world of corporate mergers reminded me of that sorry story, one that’s played out several times for clients over the past decade, one that never ends well for Dr. Quisling.

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]]> https://blog.weisspc.com/fiduciary-duties-errant-partners-and-third-party-liability/feed/ 0 19036 Do You Know What’s Wrong With Best Practices? – Success in Motion https://blog.weisspc.com/whats-wrong-with-best-practices-sim-2/ https://blog.weisspc.com/whats-wrong-with-best-practices-sim-2/#respond Tue, 12 Jan 2016 17:00:31 +0000 https://blog.weisspc.com/?p=6758 Try staying ahead of the curve rather than subscribing to the status quo of best practices.

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]]> https://blog.weisspc.com/whats-wrong-with-best-practices-sim-2/feed/ 0 6758 The Chicken or the Egg? – Medical Group Minute https://blog.weisspc.com/chicken-egg-videocast/ https://blog.weisspc.com/chicken-egg-videocast/#respond Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:00:02 +0000 https://blog.weisspc.com/?p=5869 Steve Jobs famously believed public demand wasn't important in terms of identifying the market for new products.

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]]> https://blog.weisspc.com/chicken-egg-videocast/feed/ 0 5869 Covenants Not to Compete and Alternatives https://blog.weisspc.com/reasonable-noncompete-physician-groups/ https://blog.weisspc.com/reasonable-noncompete-physician-groups/#respond Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:04:21 +0000 https://blog.weisspc.com/?p=3018 Covenants not to compete are not inherently bad. It’s just the laws of some states that make them so. In other words, it’s an issue of policy. The purpose of covenants not to compete is, of course, to broadly protect your group’s business. But even if your group practices in a state that will not...

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]]> https://blog.weisspc.com/reasonable-noncompete-physician-groups/feed/ 0 3018 The Chicken or the Egg? https://blog.weisspc.com/the-chicken-or-the-egg/ https://blog.weisspc.com/the-chicken-or-the-egg/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:00:35 +0000 https://blog.weisspc.com/?p=4440 Steve Jobs famously believed public demand wasn’t important in terms of identifying the market for new products. Instead, what Jobs envisioned the public would want wasn’t even on the public’s radar. On the other hand, the famous marketing expert Gary Halbert held, using a restaurant as an example, that the most important element in the...

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]]> https://blog.weisspc.com/the-chicken-or-the-egg/feed/ 0 4440 Why Trying to Protect Your Group’s Position Is Destroying Your Future https://blog.weisspc.com/protecting-medical-group-position-destroying-future/ https://blog.weisspc.com/protecting-medical-group-position-destroying-future/#respond Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:00:13 +0000 https://blog.weisspc.com/?p=1926 Over the past five, ten or twenty years, your group has worked long and hard to develop its business. You’ve become successful. But now, you see threats everywhere: threats from the hospital that wants to employ you, threats of forced ACO participation, threats of replacement by paraprofessionals, threats of competition from national groups and the...

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