Our Story

Built by a physician.
For clinicians who deserve better.

ContractIQ delivers the contract intelligence your training never covered — so you negotiate from a position of strength, not uncertainty.

Most physicians, NPs, and PAs enter contract negotiations the same way — confident in their clinical value, less certain about what the terms in front of them actually mean. That's not a weakness. It's a product of a training system that prioritizes medicine, not contracts.

The physician who built ContractIQ has been on both sides of that table. They watched colleagues — specialists joining hospital systems, surgeons negotiating call coverage terms, locum physicians signing independent contractor agreements — accept conditions they would have pushed back on if they had known how those terms compared to the national standard.

Hiring a healthcare attorney is the right answer. But attorney reviews cost $500–$1,500, take days to schedule, and often happen only once — right before signing. ContractIQ exists to make sure you walk into that conversation already knowing where the landmines are.

“I built the tool I wished I'd had when I signed my first contract.”— Physician Founder, ContractIQ LLC

What we believe

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Clinicians deserve informed leverage

Your employer's legal team reviewed this contract before you ever saw it. You deserve a tool in your corner that works just as hard.

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Public data, cited in every report

Compensation terms are checked against the CMS Physician Fee Schedule and federal Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data for your role and state. Every finding carries its source, so you can trace any claim we make — and hand it to your attorney.

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Your contract is yours alone

We process your document and immediately discard it. We never store, train on, or share the contents of your agreement.

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Analysis, not advice

ContractIQ identifies risk. It does not replace an attorney — think of it as the pre-chart review before the consult. You walk in knowing the findings; your attorney helps you act on them.

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Plain language, every time

Every red flag comes with a plain-language explanation and a specific negotiation question you can bring to your employer or attorney.

Who ContractIQ is for

Any clinician reviewing an employment or independent contractor agreement — including:

  • ✓Residents and fellows evaluating their first attending contract
  • ✓Specialists contracting with hospitals, health systems, or academic medical centers
  • ✓Established physicians changing employers or negotiating renewals
  • ✓Locum tenens and contract physicians reviewing short-term or per diem agreements
  • ✓Hospitalists, surgeons, and subspecialists on productivity or quality-based compensation
  • ✓Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants/associates (PAs) entering employment agreements
  • ✓Any clinician asked to sign a restrictive covenant, non-compete, or arbitration clause

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Informational analysis only — not legal advice.