Here are four tips:
1. Set a defined schedule that outlines both parties’ expectations. Note the definitions for full-time versus part-time status, and whether your practice has exclusivity requirements.
2. Know your state licensing requirements. Various states require contracts specify which physicians will work with the APs, as well as APs’ specific responsibilities as they pertain to the practice’s operations. Further, some states require the contract specifically outline which prescriptions the AP can write.
3. List the same confidentiality, non-compete, non-solicitation and non-disparagement provisions you would include in a physician contract.
4. Superficially outline how your practice will pay the AP, and how that AP can obtain certain bonuses and apply bonuses. Many states forbid practices from paying APs a percentage of the practice’s profits as APs can’t be co-owners of the practice in those states.
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