Physician Contract Glossary · Termination
Termination for Cause
Termination for cause lets the employer fire you immediately for defined serious reasons, usually with no notice and no severance.
A for-cause termination ends your employment immediately for reasons the contract spells out: loss of license, exclusion from Medicare, criminal conviction, breach of contract, sometimes failure to meet performance conditions. There is usually no notice period and no severance. The danger lives in vague or broad cause definitions, because the wider the list, the easier it is for the employer to claim cause and skip the protections of a without-cause exit.
Demand a narrow, specific, objective list of cause events and an opportunity to cure where the conduct is fixable. Catch-all phrases like conduct detrimental to the practice hand the employer a for-cause exit on demand.
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