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Hospital Optics turns executed staffing agreements into page-cited answers, peer comparisons, and executive findings.
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Six of the situations the agreements are read against, each with a clause from a real executed agreement, the hospital identified by type and state only.
An invoice is wrong
01Fourteen days to dispute and fourteen to pay. Miss the window and the invoice is deemed accepted, with no audit right and no right to offset.
Critical-access hospital (TX) · §4.4, §4.5
The agency raises its rate
02The document that sets the price becomes binding after 48 hours of silence, its rates control over the master agreement, and nothing caps what it may say.
Critical-access hospital (TX) · §9 and Confirmation of Assignment
Census drops and you cancel
03Roughly $85,000 of guaranteed hours across two assignments that cannot be reduced for low census, a unit closure or your own cancellation. Ending the master agreement does not switch them off.
Critical-access hospital (TX) · master agreement and two Confirmations
You want to hire the traveler
04A flat $12,000 that never falls, plus $12,000 in liquidated damages if the hire happens outside the process. Three peer hospitals pay nothing once the traveler has worked 13 to 26 weeks.
Critical-access hospital (TX) · §3.8, §3.11 · p.3
A claim arrives
05You indemnify the agency for every claim arising from the care its nurses deliver, uncapped and without any finding of fault, while what you can recover from them is capped at the fees paid for that one nurse.
Critical-access hospital (TX) · indemnity and limitation of liability
The term runs out, or never does
06Three travel agreements with no end date, no renewal date and no way for the hospital to end them, open-ended since the day they were signed. All six comparison agreements set a term and a notice period.
Critical-access hospital (WA) · term and termination
How an answer is produced
Your agreement in. A cited finding out.
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What does it cost us to hire one of these travelers onto our own staff?
Stored privately and hash-checked on every read. Other hospitals only ever see a facility type and a state.
We read it off the page
Every clause quoted, with its section and page.
Executed PDF · p.3
§3.8“Such Placement Fee shall be calculated as follows: (i) $12,000 for RN, PT, OT, SLP; and (ii) $8,000 for Surgical Technologist, PTA, COTA.”
Recorded
$12,000 for an RN. Fixed sum, no taper with time worked.
Another $12,000 per occurrence, plus the agency's legal fees.
Direct hires, indirect hires, and referrals to a third party.
We line it up with peers
Executed agreements other hospitals released under public records law.
Same contract type · RN travel · released under public records law
Four executed agreements, read on the same term
We check every quote against the page
Page image and file hash, before anything reaches you.
- Yours · fee§3.8 · p.3
- Yours · damages§3.11 · p.3
- Peer (NE)Exh. B · p.12
- Peer (WA)§21(b) · p.6
- Peer (MO)Exh. A, §T · p.9
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Finding · Cost to hire the traveler onto your staff
Yours is the only one of the four where working longer never reduces the fee
$12,000 flat, plus $12,000 in liquidated damages per occurrence. Nothing in the agreement lowers it.
§3.8, §3.11 · p.3Three of three tie the fee to weeks already worked, so it reaches zero somewhere between 13 and 26 weeks.
3 of 3A fee that falls with weeks worked and reaches zero. Every other hospital in this set has one, on an executed agreement.
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