The aim is to protect patients’ choices by preventing employers or partners from restricting physicians’ ability to practice medicine at the end of a professional relationship.
Rhode Island’s law bars any non-compete language in most physician agreements. No contract can “restrict [a physician’s] right to practice medicine,” according to the report.
But the law does not apply to the purchase and sale of physician practices.
Connecticut’s law limits the duration of a physician’s non-compete clause to a year and the location to which the non-compete is effective to up to 15 miles from the primary site where the physician practices. The new law renders the non-compete clause unenforceable if the physician’s employment is terminated without cause.
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