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Tax And Other Legal Aspects Of The Corporate Practice Of Medicine, Jerry B. Martin

Vanderbilt Law Review

With the coming of regulations allowing doctors the tax advantages of corporate employees, the doctors will probably be more solidly behind the positions of the AMA in favor of the prohibition against the corporate practice of medicine. For example, at least one state group, the Tennessee State Medical Association, has recently adopted a resolution against practicing medicine in the corporate form, and there have been no recent reports of state associations taking the opposite position. The American Hospital Association which seems to lead the opposition to the corporate practice rule does not attack the rule as being intrinsically bad but …