Physician employment contract review

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Built forcardiologists

  • STEMI call: how often, who is first call, and whether it pays beyond base
  • Interventional wRVUs: credited to the operator, or pooled across the group
  • Echo, nuclear and CT reads: whether reading credit counts toward your threshold

Every physician specialty, MD and DO.

Inside the report

The whole contract.A ten‑minute read.

Every clause that touches your pay, your time or your exit, set down in plain English and turned into the ask we would make.

Here is how one clause becomes one clear recommendation.

1Your contract, as written

01CompensationEmployment agreement · Art. 4.2 · as written

4.2Productivity Compensation. In addition to the Base Compensation, and subject to Section 4.6, Physician shall be eligible to receive, for each Work Relative Value Unit (“wRVU”) personally performed in excess of eight thousand two hundred (8,200) wRVUs in any Contract Year, the sum of Fifty-Eight Dollars ($58.00), as such wRVUs are calculated by Employer in its reasonable discretion and reconciled quarterly in arrears. No Productivity Compensation shall accrue in respect of wRVUs at or below such threshold.

2We pull out what matters and explain it

What it meansIn the report
eight thousand two hundred (8,200) wRVUs1
8,200wRVUs in a year before any productivity pay starts
Fifty-Eight Dollars ($58.00)2
$58for each wRVU above that line, paid quarterly
in its reasonable discretion3
Their countHarborline decides what counts as a wRVU

Our findingHarborline’s own offer letter projects 7,600 wRVUs for year one. On its numbers, year one pays the guarantee alone.

3Then we tell you what to ask for

What we would ask forOur recommendation

Set the year‑one threshold at 7,400 wRVUs.

+$11,600in year one, at the 7,600 wRVUs Harborline projects
+$46,400a year at most, from 8,200 wRVUs up

$58 × the 200 wRVUs from 7,400 to 7,600 is $11,600; × the 800 from 7,400 to 8,200 is $46,400.

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The question you didn’t askis the one that costs you.

All MD and DO specialties. For each kind of contract, the question we would ask first, and the short answer we usually find.

  1. 01Residents & fellows

    If they let you go without cause, do you still repay the signing bonus?

    Often, yes. Many repayment clauses count only the months you stayed, not who ended the job, so the bill can follow you out the door.

    $40,000

    Signing bonus, repaid pro rata before month 36. Leave at month 18 and about $20,000 goes back.Sample report · fictional

  2. 02Hospital & group employed

    Could you hit every number they projected and still earn no bonus?

    Yes, and it happens. The offer letter projects your volume and the contract sets the wRVU bar for bonus pay. Nothing makes the two agree, and if the bar is higher, year one pays base and nothing more.

    600wRVUs short

    The bonus starts at 8,200 wRVUs. Harborline’s own offer letter projects 7,600 for year one.Sample report · fictional

  3. 03Locums & per-diem

    If the hospital offers you a permanent job, are you free to take it?

    Often not, for a year or two. Many agency agreements bar you from going direct to a facility you covered unless someone pays the agency a placement fee.

  4. 04Academic & partnership track

    If you leave before you’ve vested, do you get your buy-in back?

    Only if the contract says so. Buy-ins are often paid ahead of vesting, so for years you have put in more than you own, and many contracts are silent on refunds.

    $150,000

    Buy-in, paid $50,000 a year from year three. The contract does not say what comes back if Dr. Whitcombe leaves before year six.Sample report · fictional

  5. 05Multi-state

    Cover a clinic for two weeks, and is that town now inside your non‑compete?

    It can be. Many radius clauses run from every site you worked at, not just your main one, so each stretch of cover can widen the map, across state lines too.

    15miles

    From any Harborline site worked at in the last 12 months, for 24 months. A few weeks covering a clinic counts.Sample report · fictional

Answers describe what we often see, not what every contract says. Figures come from our sample report: Dr. Clara Whitcombe and Harborline Medical Group are fictional, and not every report covers every one of these.

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Harborline Medical Group · Gastroenterology. Reviewed by our team before release.
What we would raise first sample
  1. Lower the year-one threshold to 7,400 wRVUs+$46,400 a year
  2. Measure the radius from your primary site onlyat 10 miles
  3. Harborline pays the tail on a without-cause exitotherwise yours
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Is this a legal review?
No. A lawyer writes a binding legal opinion, hour by hour. We give you a detailed written report — compensation benchmarked, red flags interpreted, and specific negotiation language you can use. If you need a signed legal opinion, take our report to an attorney; you’ll have saved them an hour and yourself several hundred dollars.
What specialties and contract types does it cover?
All physician (MD/DO) specialties — hospitalist, primary care, surgical subspecialty, anesthesia, radiology, ED, psychiatry, and all procedural and non-procedural fields. Contract types include private practice, academic, locums, hospital-employed, and multi-state complex arrangements.
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