Physician Contract Glossary · Regulatory & Compliance
Regulatory Compliance in Hospital Agreements
This covers the compliance terms hospitals build into physician contracts to satisfy Stark, Anti-Kickback, and tax-exemption rules.
Hospital agreements carry compliance machinery: clauses requiring fair-market-value compensation, prohibitions on referral-based pay, and for non-profit hospitals, terms protecting their tax-exempt status. These provisions can require you to comply with the hospital's policies, repay amounts later found non-compliant, or accept compensation adjustments to stay within the rules.
Look for clauses letting the hospital adjust your compensation or claw back amounts to maintain regulatory compliance. These can quietly put your pay at the mercy of a later compliance determination.
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