Hold Harmless

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Managed health care is usually carried out through contracting a physician or a doctor by companies that provide such services. Doctors as well as physicians can benefit much by identifying clauses in the contract documents that have the potential to kill a deal to offer such services. Clauses in the contracts may sometimes be an impediment for some physicians as they present more danger to the practitioner than good.
Perhaps on such impeding clause in the contracts is the famous “hold harmless” clause. This clause requires physicians to indemnify the organization responsible for health care services by taking of the liability should things go haywire in service delivery. Should an end result be undesirable, due to the physician’s actions, they compensate on behalf of the company (Dealing With 'Deal-Killers par 1).
This clause has had a big impact as well as benefits in the managed health care system. First, one of the biggest positive impacts is that health care providers have to have their professional ability scrutinized. This results to the provision of these services being carried out by professionals. However, one big negative aspect of the clause is that it results to some of the health care providers shunning away from the contracts. This is because most times the health care provider has the ability to indemnify you while the physicians may not have such deep pockets as the health care provider. Such clauses may act a real deal killer if the physician feels the risk is too high (Dealing With 'Deal-Killers par 1)...