Eliminating noncompete contracts would allow doctors to practice wherever their services are needed, which would improve patients' access to care.

Since 2019, states have been in a back-and-forth dispute with the behavioral health provider to determine whether the insurer inappropriately denied mental health and substance use disorder coverage to subscribers.

LSAs represent a business expense tax deduction that a cash bonus might not, and it increases compensation without increasing base pay.

"Be wary," Duane Morris Partner Gerald Maatman said. "The NLRB has employer practices on the radar screen, and assumptions about well-settled labor decisions are now being reexamined."