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David Millstein, an attorney nationally recognized for litigating on behalf of physician groups talk about the background of Corporate Practice of Medicine. Mr. Millstein touched on private equity involvement in healthcare and its effects on physician-owned entities. The video also talks about new of Envision pulling out of their business in California after winning the case for American Academy Emergency of Medicine.

"We believe they left California because of our suit and their desire not to see a precedent established that challenges their model on a national basis," David Millstein, JD, a lawyer who specializes in healthcare and complex litigation, and who represented AAEM-PG on the case, told MedPage Today.

As discussed in Modern Healthcare, Envision Healthcare departed the State of California following litigation against it alleging it violated California’s Corporate Practice of Medicine.

“He shows up in his scrubs with his stethoscope around his neck, like he was right out of central casting,” laughed David Millstein, a California attorney who has successfully used that state’s CPOM statute to challenge many of the tactics private equity firms and other corporate entities use to sabotage physician-owned medical practices. “And he tells us, oh no, Amazon is so great because they take care of billing so we can have more time with our patients! Like billing can only be done if Amazon does it, as if doctors haven’t hired billing firms since time immemorial.”

November 7, 2022, San Francisco Business Times. The Superior Court for the City and County of San Francisco dismissed after trial, a seven year old suit alleging that the Academy of Art violated the San Francisco Rental Ordinance by housing students in dormitories. The claim was for over $30 million dollars.

June 15, 2023, New York Times. The Times Quoted David Millstein in the article “The Moral Crisis of American Doctors” regarding the landmark suit, the Academy of Emergency Medicine vs. Envision Healthcare, being prosecuted by MFLLP.

November 18, 2023, David Millstein addresses the House of Delegates of the California Society Anesthesiologists at its annual meeting on the Corporate Practice of Medicine and related issues.

May 12, 2023, KFF Health News. Envision Healthcare announced Monday it has filed for bankruptcy protection, but a group of emergency physicians vows to continue a federal lawsuit that claims the private equity-backed company is violating California’s ban on corporate control of medical practices.

May 8, 2023, New York Times. Large health insurers and other companies are especially keen on doctors’ groups that care for patients in private Medicare plans.