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Do noncompetes have a future?
Author(s)Todd Shryock
Do noncompetes have a future considering the courts seem to have a poor opinion of them?
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After private equity firms bought for-profit hospices, Medicare paid $993 more per hospice encounter and stays ran 6.3 days longer, with no increase in visits.
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