On-call duty is part of practicing medicine. Patient needs don’t stop at 5 pm, so hospitals rely on night and weekend coverage to keep care moving. But unreasonable call expectations can contribute to burnout and, at times, compromise patient safety, and they have increasingly become a flashpoint in employment negotiations. I recently teamed up with […]
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I recently reviewed an agreement that involved paying physicians for resident supervision. I think this is a very encouraging sign, and am hopeful we can spread the news and make this a trend. A Hospital is Paying Physicians for Resident Supervision That is not a typo, I have reviewed an agreement recently called an “Individual
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Unlike at Lake Wobegon, where “all the children are above average,” this health system believes that all physician compenstation should be average.
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Some employers take a chance on hiring new physicians, shifting the risk of insufficient work to the physician through physician productivity compensation.
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After purchasing the physician contract review, you will receive an email asking you to transmit the agreement and any concerns you have to me. Many physicians do this by email, but I will be available by phone, too. In three business days from the time you purchase the Physician Prosperity Program® and transmit the draft physician employment agreement along with any concerns you have about the agreement and the information I will need to perform the MGMA analysis, you will receive a detailed physician contract review letter from me.
After you receive my physician contract review letter, you will have the opportunity to discuss it with me, to make sure all of your concerns were met, and to correct any factual inaccuracies, or to point out things that were verbally promised but didn’t make it into the physician employment agreement. These discussions, and revisions of the letter following these discussions, are included in the initial fixed fee.
Once you are completely comfortable with the physician contract review letter, you transmit the letter to your potential employer.
