10 contract red flags, from the person who reads PA contracts for the hiring side.
Claims-made malpractice with no tail. Sign-on bonuses that are secretly loans. Notice periods that only run one direction. Ten clauses that tell you how a job ends before it starts, on one page, free.
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What’s on the page
The tail coverage question that can cost five figures at resignation. Sign-on repayment that survives a without-cause termination. One-direction notice. Unbounded site assignment. Overbroad non-competes and where state law now voids them for PAs. The phantom productivity bonus, uncompensated call, PTO that swallows holidays, buried auto-renew windows, and the one-week signing pressure play.
Who made this
Jeff Brown Jr, PA-C, MBA. Director of advanced practice providers at a health system, PA career coach, and author of The PA Contract & Negotiation Playbook: how to evaluate the offer, read every clause for your worst day, and move the number, with scripts. The red flags are the warning. The book is the whole read.