A group of independent emergency physicians in Oregon who sued their own hospital system are celebrating after the employer agreed to scrap its original plan to replace the group with an out-of-state corporate staffing firm.
Eugene Emergency Physicians (EEP) sued PeaceHealth in late March, arguing that the health system violated the state’s corporate medicine law. The parties reached a preliminary settlement last week, which the physicians involved called a major win.
“It was David versus Goliath … and you know something, we ripped them to shreds,” Daniel McGee, MD, of EEP and a plaintiff in the lawsuit, told MedPage Today.…