To receive the bonuses, the hospitals will also have to hire physicians who specialize in intensive care to supervise their sickest patients.

When Christian became fully vested as king in 1592, he hired additional physicians while still employing Severinus who retained his title and income.

Nearly every state has laws that make it illegal for a for-profit entity to hire physicians so as to de facto practice medicine.

Catholic hospitals routinely hire non-Catholic physicians.

The same is true for many inner-city clinics that have recently hired physicians with the promise of loan repayment, unaware that a mere handful would be approved.

They hired physicians and dentists to treat impoverished patients who qualified for Medicaid.

"We hired several physicians and they all said Mike had been disabled since March of 1991," Fitzsimmons said.

And they often hire physicians as consultants, arrangements that call into question a physician's independence in deciding what drugs to prescribe for patients.

They hired physicians and dentists to treat low-income and welfare patients who qualified for Medicaid, which is financed by the state and the Federal Government.

Why not, then, hire physicians for the company and encourage employees to use them?