Are emergency room physicians always employees?
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has recently increased its scrutiny of the worker classifications used by hospitals in arrangements with physicians for the provision of services (see "Reclassifying physicians as employees for Federal tax purposes," HEALTHCARE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, February 1994, pp. 38-44). In particular, emergency room physicians have been singled out by the IRS as a category of physicians who are often treated as independent contractors by hospitals but should, in the view of the IRS, be characterized as employees.
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