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Hospital Optics turns executed staffing agreements into page-cited answers, peer comparisons, and executive findings.

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What happens if census falls after a traveler is confirmed?Which agreements allow mid-term rate increases?When can an agency charge a conversion fee?Which renewal and termination deadlines are approaching?How do our cancellation terms compare with executed peers?

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

    01

    Fourteen 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

    02

    The 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

    03

    Roughly $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

    04

    A 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

    05

    You 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

    06

    Three 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

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How an answer is produced

Your agreement in. A cited finding out.

01

Start from the agreement

Already in our public-records collection, or securely provided by you.

What does it cost us to hire one of these travelers onto our own staff?

RN travel agreement · executed · 10 pp2 assignment confirmations

Stored privately and hash-checked on every read. Other hospitals only ever see a facility type and a state.

02

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

Fee to hire the traveler§3.8 · p.3

$12,000 for an RN. Fixed sum, no taper with time worked.

Liquidated damages on top§3.11 · p.3

Another $12,000 per occurrence, plus the agency's legal fees.

Who it reaches§3.8 · p.3

Direct hires, indirect hires, and referrals to a third party.

03

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

HospitalTypeStateAgreementFee to hire the traveler
YoursHospital name withheld
Critical-accessTX
Agency name withheldMay 2026 · 10 pp
$12,000 flat. Never falls.§3.8 · p.3
PeerHospital name withheld
Critical-accessNE
Agency name withheldDec 2023 · 21 pp
30% of first-year pay, down 1% a week. Free after 26 weeks.Exh. B · p.12
PeerHospital name withheld
Critical-accessWA
Agency name withheldJan 2024 · 20 pp
30% of first-year pay, down 2% a week. Free after 13 weeks.§21(b) · p.6
PeerHospital name withheld
Critical-accessMO
Agency name withheldJan 2026 · 10 pp
25% of first-year pay. Free after 13 weeks.Exh. A, §T · p.9
04

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
5 of 5 cited pages read back against the page imagefile hash matched the released PDF
05

You get the answer in whatever format you want

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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

Unfavorable
Your agreement

$12,000 flat, plus $12,000 in liquidated damages per occurrence. Nothing in the agreement lowers it.

§3.8, §3.11 · p.3
Peer set

Three of three tie the fee to weeks already worked, so it reaches zero somewhere between 13 and 26 weeks.

3 of 3
Ask for

A fee that falls with weeks worked and reaches zero. Every other hospital in this set has one, on an executed agreement.

1 / 5 · same finding, any format you ask for

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