Medicine is your expertise. The business underneath it shouldn’t be a liability.
Solo physicians, small group practices, medtech startups and independent medical providers carry a category of legal and regulatory risk that most other small businesses never encounter. The exposure that ends careers and dissolves practices often has nothing to do with patient care. It lives in the agreements you signed when you joined your last group, the vendor contracts flowing through your office, the employment arrangements you’ve built over the years, and the entity structure underneath everything that was set up at formation and never revisited.
MedTech and digital health companies operate at the intersection of some of the most complex legal frameworks in the country: HIPAA, anti-kickback compliance, IP assignment, clinical site agreements, data privacy, and investor documents, often all at once and always on a tight timeline. Most early-stage companies either go without legal counsel on these agreements or pay traditional firm rates that burn through runway. Contract House was built to close that gap.
Our attorneys handle the full range of commercial and transactional legal work that MedTech startups need at every stage of development, from founder IP assignment before your first investor meeting to BAAs before a hospital pilot can launch. Flat-rate pricing, licensed attorney review on every deliverable, and a team that speaks the language of the ecosystem.
The choice of practice entity, and the operating agreement or shareholder agreement that governs it, determines what actually happens when a partner disagrees, when a physician wants to leave, or when ownership needs to change. Both Rhode Island and Massachusetts have specific rules governing how professional practices can be organized, and the default statutory provisions that apply when there is no written governing agreement were not written with medical practices in mind. Getting the foundational documents right is where we start.
Physician employment agreements in Rhode Island and Massachusetts have to navigate non compete enforceability standards, non solicitation provisions, independent contractor classification rules, and compensation structures that are subject to specific statutory requirements in both states. Massachusetts has one of the most specific non compete statutes in the country, with procedural requirements that apply alongside the substantive ones. Rhode Island applies its own reasonableness framework, with particular attention to patient access and continuity of care. Generic agreements don’t hold up under either standard. We draft to the specific requirements of the jurisdiction where your practice operates.
Every physician practice is a HIPAA covered entity, and that status extends your compliance obligations into every vendor relationship that touches protected health information. Billing companies, EHR platforms, IT providers, transcription services, practice management consultants: each requires a compliant Business Associate Agreement before the relationship begins. Massachusetts adds its own data privacy obligations under state law that run parallel to federal requirements. The vendor agreements coming into your practice were drafted by lawyers working for the vendor. Before you sign, someone should be working for you.
We draft and review the documents that independent practices deal with on a recurring basis: professional entity operating agreements and shareholder agreements, physician and clinical staff employment agreements, independent contractor agreements built around each state’s classification framework, Business Associate Agreements, vendor and service contract review, and NDAs for any relationship where confidentiality matters from the first conversation.
For practices with ongoing contract volume, our monthly subscription retainer provides a defined number of attorney reviewed documents per month plus dedicated attorney consultation time. The practical equivalent of an in house legal function at a fraction of the cost. Flat rate pricing on every engagement, licensed attorney review on every deliverable.
Nothing on this page constitutes legal advice, and reading it does not create an attorney client relationship. Contract House provides contract drafting and legal document services under the supervision of licensed attorneys in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. If you’d like to talk through what your practice specifically needs, reach out.
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