A noncompete clause prohibits the physician from seeing patients within 20 miles of his previous practice locations, potentially limiting patients' access to specialty care, the lawsuit claims.
A Pennsylvania urologist is suing his former employer for the alleged illegal enforcement of a noncompete agreement that limits his ability to practice locally for the next 2 years.
According to a civil suit filed on January 30 in the Court of Common Pleas, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Eric Rottenberg, MD, signed a 3-year employment agreement with Commonwealth Health Physician Network in November 2022. He worked for the health system from May to November 2023, seeing patients at several of its locations, including Wilkes-Barre General Hospital and other facilities throughout northeast and central Pennsylvania.
Rottenberg was recruited by Lehigh Valley Physician Group , part of Lehigh Valley Health Network, in December 2023 for a urology position at its Dickson City and Scranton locations — some of which are within 20 miles of CPN facilities, the complaint said.in physician contracts because they want to keep the departing physician's patients from following them to a competitor.
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