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Physician contract review, without the two-week wait

A typical attorney review costs $500–$2,000 and takes days.

Ours reads your contract in 60 seconds — every term in plain English, each with the exact quote it came from.

Start free. Bring in a human when you know where to point them.

A contract review has one job: find the terms that will cost you money or freedom before you sign, and tell you what to ask for instead. The four clauses below are where physician contracts do the most damage — and they're what any competent review, human or automated, checks first.

Physicians who negotiate usually get something: published surveys consistently report that most requests produce at least one improvement. The blocker is rarely leverage — it's not knowing what's normal.

Tail coverage

Claims-made policy + physician-paid tail = a $15K–$50K+ bill when you leave. The single most expensive surprise we see.

Non-compete

Duration, radius, and which locations it measures from — checked against your state's law, including the states that ban physician non-competes outright.

wRVU formula

Conversion factor and threshold vs. published norms, and whether the formula is locked to a CMS fee-schedule year or free to drift.

Termination

60-day without-cause notice sounds fine until you learn credentialing takes 90–120 days — and your non-compete may still apply.

☐ Confirm who pays tail coverage, in writing, with the dollar mechanics.
☐ Map the non-compete radius on an actual map from every location it measures from.
☐ Ask for a worked example of any productivity formula, locked to a named CMS fee-schedule year.
☐ Check the without-cause notice period against realistic credentialing timelines (90–120 days).
☐ Check bonus and relocation clawbacks: do they lapse if the employer terminates you without cause?
☐ Calendar the auto-renewal / non-renewal notice deadline the day you sign.
☐ Get every verbal promise — schedule, call, bonuses — into the written agreement.
☐ Have an attorney licensed in the employment state review the final draft of anything contested.

60 seconds. Free. The second opinion most attendings wish they'd gotten.

Decode my contract — free

The $99 full report adds clause-by-clause analysis, counter-proposal language, and a ready-to-send negotiation email — a fraction of the $500–$2,000 a typical attorney review costs, and a good way to arrive prepared if you hire one.

How this comparison was built

• joboffer.ink is built with care by children of physicians — Harvard- and MIT-trained engineers.
• Every number traces to a named public source — 26 registered sources, 106 lineage-linked values across 20 specialties.
• Covenant and tail-coverage norms are cross-checked against a corpus of 65 physician employment lawsuits (2021–2026) built from court records.
• No licensed survey data is resold here: everything cited is public, with links, and the full method is documented on the methodology page.

Harvard and MIT do not endorse or have any affiliation with joboffer.ink; the reference describes the founders' training.

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Frequently asked questions

How much does a physician contract review cost?

Attorney reviews typically run $500–$2,000 flat, or $300–$600 per hour, and add days to your timeline. joboffer.ink's automated review is free (full decode, benchmark placement, top risk flags) with an optional $99 full negotiation report. Many physicians use both: the instant review to find the issues, an attorney to negotiate the hard ones.

Do I really need my physician contract reviewed?

If the contract contains a non-compete, a claims-made malpractice policy, a productivity formula, or termination language — which is nearly every physician employment agreement — then yes. Improvements worth 1–2% of annual compensation typically exceed the cost of any review.

Is this legal advice?

No. joboffer.ink is information and preparation: it extracts what your contract says, benchmarks it against public data, and drafts negotiation language. For legal advice, use an attorney licensed in your state — we can introduce you to vetted ones.

Keep reading

Physician compensation benchmarks by specialty wRVU rates by specialty — and what your formula is actually worth Physician non-compete laws, all 50 states Tail coverage: the $15K–$50K clause most physicians never read Physician contract red flags — and the exact asks that fix them

Information and preparation, not legal advice. Benchmarks cite public sources inline; verify every number against your own documents.