Physician Contract Glossary · Contract Structure
Hospital Employment Contract
A hospital employment contract employs you directly through a hospital or health system rather than a physician group.
A hospital employment contract puts you on a health system's payroll directly. These contracts tend to standardize compensation around wRVU production, often bundle malpractice and tail, and come with system-wide policies you inherit by reference. The upside is stability and infrastructure. The tradeoff is less control and contract terms that are presented as fixed even when parts of them are not.
Ask which policies are incorporated by reference, because a short contract can pull in a long employee handbook you are bound by but never saw. Get those documents before you sign.
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