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Catherine Hanson, JD
Physician
Employment
Contracts
Signer Beware!
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Physician Employment Contracts
Signer Beware!
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What is Yours?
DREAM
JOB
• Right Location
• Right Practice
• Right Compensation
• Bright Future
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Are you sure?
DREAM
JOB
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• Reduce potential for mistakes
• Reduce potential for misunderstanding
• Reduce potential for amnesia
• Negotiation
• No harm in trying
• Never overestimate mind-reading abilities
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Written vs. Verbal Agreements
Initial Considerations
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Are you sure?
DREAM
JOB
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Important Contract Terms
• Fringe Benefits
• Compensation
• Physician Duties
• Employer Duties
• Equity Status Opportunities
• Term
• Termination
• Covenants not to compete/confidentiality
• Other Issues
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Initial Considerations
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Unique Benefits
• License Fees
• Professional Society and Medical Staff Dues
• Midweek time off (administrative duties, sleep before
call)
• CME - time and money
• Professional Liability Insurance
• Payment of Student Loans
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Contract Terms
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Physician Duties
• Hours (patient visits per day/enrollees assigned)
• Services
• Administrative responsibility
• Billing and compliance
(including participation in managed care contracts)
• Compliance with professional standards, employer rules
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Contract Terms
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Shareholder or Partner Status
• Is the employee expected to become an owner?
• When? Under what circumstances?
• Review process?
• Buy-in price and terms
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Contract Terms
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Term
• Unless otherwise specified, employment contracts are
usually terminable “at will”
• Law may limit initial term (CA has 7 year maximum)
• Typical: initial term and provision for extension
• Leave time before termination date to renegotiate
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Contract Terms
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Termination
• Automatic - loss of license, loss of DEA certificate,
exclusion from Medicare, etc., death, permanent
disability
• For cause - material breach of contract, medical
disciplinary cause or reason, fraudulent behavior
• Without cause - for any (lawful) reason or no reason
• Hearing rights?
• Performance evaluations?
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Contract Terms
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Termination (cont’d)
• Notice to patients - who will provide it and what
will it say?
• Access to patient lists and records
• Patient request, malpractice claim, administrative
proceeding
• Will physician have to pay?
• How much?
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Contract Terms
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Covenants not to Compete
• Covenants not to compete during agreement are
generally valid (moonlighting, teaching, research)
• Covenants not to compete after termination are
disfavored by CEJA and may be unethical if
overreaching. They are void in CA, unless coupled with a
sale of a bona fide equity interest in the practice.
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Contract Terms
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Are you sure?
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Confidentiality Clauses
• Confidentiality clauses are generally enforceable.
• Protect ability to advocate for quality
• Protect ability to communicate professional
announcement of new position to patients (some
practices consider patient list to be a “trade secret”)
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Contract Terms
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Are you sure?
DREAM
JOB
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Other Issues
• Membership on IPA and payor panels (need for
assistance/right to rescission)
• Intellectual property ownership (who gets it)
• Peer review (scope of obligation/ requirement to release
from liability)
• Indemnification (avoid it)
• Corporate practice of medicine (refuse it)
• Recruitment contracts (get a lawyer)
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Contract Terms
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Merit-based Incentive System (MIPS)
• Your 2017 MIPS performance will follow you…
– Physician Compare
• Is your employer committed to success?
– Individual or Group Reporting?
– Prior PQRS experience
– EHR/ HIT sophistication
– QRUR/sQRUR –how does your employer rank?
• MIPS impact on future salary?
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Final Thoughts
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Commitment to value-based
payment? • Future = population-based, patient-centered
teams
• Is your employer on the transformation path?
• Evaluation of current patient population?
• Appropriate evidenced-based clinical guidelines
• Measurement of results/implementation of changes
• Commitment to optimizing referrals/care coordination
• Functional CEHRT/HIT – transition to 2015 standards
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Final Thoughts
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Special issues
Hospital
Employers
Percentages of Active U.S. Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) and Specialist Physicians Employed by Hospitals, 2000–2012
Data are from the Physician Compensation and Production Survey, Medical Group
Management Association, 2003–2009.
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Pressure to Integrate
• ACOs
• Bundling
• Global payments
• Securing referrals and patients
• Gainsharing
• Simplest structure for hospitals—physician employment
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Hospital Perspective
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Legal Issues
• Antikickback Statute (42 U.S.C. 1320a-7b)
• The Stark Law (42 U.S.C. § 1395nn)
• The Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) for non-
profit employers
• Corporate Practice of Medicine
• State mini-kickback and self-referral statutes
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Hospital Perspective
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Unique Issues
• Loss of independence—lack of physician governance
• Poor physician group management
• Hospital competition
• Compensation issues
• Fair market value requirements
• Loss of ancillary income
• Financial strength of hospital
• Physician friendly? Protection from evolution
• If things go awry - non-competes and other restrictions
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Hospital Employment
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Key Provisions: Autonomy
• Who controls decision-making?
• Clinical?
• Administrative?
• Assets and support services?
• Where, how, and how strong is physician voice?
• Governance
• Deadlock?
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Hospital Employment
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Key Provisions: Termination
• How easy/hard is it to unwind
• For “cause”
• Without cause
• Ongoing obligations and impact
• Restrictive Covenants
• Pro-rated compensation
• Managed care participation
• Practical (assets, start-up, patients, PLI)
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Hospital Employment
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Key Provisions: Termination
(cont) • Due process
• Corporate reality/mentality
• NPDB reportability
• HCQIA immunities
• State peer review protections
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Hospital Employment
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Key Provisions: Medical staff
• Due Process
• Peer Review
• Quality/Economic Credentialing
• Unbiased Officers/MEC
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Hospital Employment
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Key Provisions: restrictive
covenants • Non-Compete
• Non-Solicitation
• Confidentiality, Non-Disclosure, Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
• Clean Sweep
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Hospital Employment
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Key Provisions: compensation
• Trend is to use RVUs or wRVUs
• Issues:
• Base salary or pure production?
• Some measure other than RVUs?
• Fair market value measure?
• What to do with ancillaries?
• How long are amounts/formulas fixed?
• Is physician being paid for all services?
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Hospital Employment
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Are you sure?
DREAM
JOB
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Key Provisions: risk payments
• Straight salary
• Salary based on productivity (work relative value units
– wRVUs)
• Individual or departmental productivity + bonus
(quality metrics, patient satisfaction scores,
administrative duties, chart completion, citizenship)
• Incentives aligned with system goals
(efficiency, readmission rate, never events)
• Individual capitation
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Hospital Employment
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New Delivery System Goals
• increased patient engagement
• improved care coordination, especially in transitions of care
• use of evidence-based medicine
• cost containment
• population health and disease management programs
• improved quality and demonstrable outcomes
• avoidance of preventable readmission, in-hospital medication errors, hospital-acquired conditions, never events
• NCQA recognition and “meaningful use” of CEHRT
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Evolving Compensation
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Pay for Performance
• Extended hours and appointment availability
(effective only if tied to demonstrable reduction in ED
use and admits which exceed the higher costs of
primary care)
• Panel size for physicians receiving integrated or fully
capitated reimbursement (e.g., commercial/senior mix
of 2,000 patients where seniors are weighted 3:1)
• Effective mid-level provider management and
supervision
• Disease management (often combined with a case
management/care coordination program)
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Evolving Compensation
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Primary care metrics
• shift differentials for evening and weekend office
hours
• secure email communication/ patient management
services
• mid-level provider supervision and panel size
• meaningful use
• community outreach and education programs
• use of care guidelines, disease management
programs
• P4P measures: HEDIS criteria, coding accuracy, ED
rates as an indication of access, readmit rate,
meeting attendance, cost of care, generics usage,
EHR adoption, etc.
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Evolving Compensation
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Population measures
Preventative measures
• Well Visits, Risk Assessments
• Age, gender and patient appropriate screenings and
tests
• Vaccinations
Patient and Population Health Management Measures
• Timely follow-up and recordation of blood pressures,
blood sugar, cholesterol and medication reconcilliation
• Active monitoring of certain drugs for potential side
effects
• Coaching and information regarding lifestyle changes
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Evolving Compensation
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Outcome measures
• A1C and LDL levels
• Hypertension control
• Depression remission
• BMI
• Back to work
• Fall rates
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Evolving Compensation
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Qualitative measures
Qualitative Measures - Improvement or minimum levels
on
• Patient satisfaction
• Peer and staff reviews or phone surveys
Good Citizenship Measures
• Meeting Attendance
• Risk Management Education
• Community Outreach, Protocol Development, Research,
Administrative/Leadership, Teaching
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Evolving Compensation
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Are you sure?
DREAM
JOB
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Data you must know
• Specific quality and resource utilization metrics or
standards that will be used to evaluate performance (or
better yet, be able to help define those metrics)
• Employer’s overall compensation methodology
• Data used to determine both ultimate performance
results and actual payment amounts
• The appraisal methodology being used to set (and
perhaps cap) physician income
• Income guarantee (amount, duration, advertising)?
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Evolving Compensation
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Issues to consider
• Are there dedicated administrators?
• Do physicians have control (including incident-to and ancillary services) necessary to assume accountability?
• Are incentives patient-centered and clinically sound?
• Will excess wRVUs be recognized at a higher or lower $/wRVU level?
• Are “mid level provider” eligible wRVUs included in measuring the supervising physician’s productivity?
• Call coverage
• Expert witness fees, independent medical exams
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Evolving Compensation
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Are you protected? • non-market rate renewal offers?
• non-compete clauses which force out of area relocation?
• adequate time to assess options or address challenges?
• physician governance rights ensure fair decision-
making?
• transparency in future appraisals/ ability to provide
independent data or use of an agreed data set?
• adequate capital and other resources to support the
practice?
• role in recruitment of new physicians to assure culture
remains patient-centered, collaborative, accountable and
clinically effective?
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Subsequent Terms
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Are you sure?
DREAM
JOB
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Before you leap….
• Know the financials (yours and theirs)
• Know the politics, philosophy and the reality
• Collaboration versus dictatorship
• Consider the long-term picture
• What do you think is going to happen if
hospital/practice reimbursement continues to decline
• Who controls the dollar?
• Protect, protect, protect
• Get an attorney
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Final Thoughts
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Eureka!
DREAM
JOB