Use thisMOU templateto draft a memorandum of understanding that reflects your knowledge of necessary terms in an arrangement between health care practitioners and health care entities for a physician, nurse practitioner, and physician assistant to form an indigent care clinic.Yourmemorandum of understanding shouldfocus on analysis.

Unit 7 - Assessment

Memorandum of Understanding

An MOU is the type of agreement frequently scrawled on a bar napkin, outlining a far-fetched business plan after an evening of too much wine and booze.You may have heard of an MOU when heads of state are meeting to resolve proliferating nuclear warheads or proclaim peace. An MOU, or memorandum of understanding, has the same legal effect as a LOU, or letter of understanding.Its terms are enforceable.

MOUs are fundamentally an agreement that parties create before negotiated documents are finalized. It is an agreement before an agreement including the parties' agreement on the parameters of a working relationship of some type. Too many agreements?

MOUs are frequently used as a starting point when either the definitive agreements are very long and complicated or to ensure important terms are acceptable to all parties before initiating the definitive agreements.It also may be used by not-for-profit employees or governmental employees who like the informality of these documents; they may avoid red tape or minimize legal fees.Further, MOUs speed up implementation of a new arrangement.

One of your assessments this week is to draft an MOU that reflects your knowledge of necessary terms in an arrangement between health care practitioners and health care entities.The attached template is intended to get you started thinking about applicable issues and ways to resolve them, but feel free to add as many different issues and terms pertaining to those issues as you think are appropriate.

Memorandum of Understanding

The parties to this Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") are Erin Green, M.D. ("Doctor") of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Russell Ramzel, N.P. ("Nurse Practitioner") of Pryor, Oklahoma, and Hilary Velandia, P.A. ("Physician Assistant") of Pryor, Oklahoma.Doctor, Nurse and PA are collectively referred to as the "Parties".All Parties are covered entities under HIPAA.

Definitions

Purpose

The purpose of this MOU is to form an indigent care clinic in Pryor, Oklahoma.All of the Parties will work at the clinic.Physician Assistant, who is employed at the Pryor Hospital, will work part-time at the clinic. Doctor, who is employed at St. John Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will work part-time at the clinic.Nurse Practitioner, who is not currently employed and does not currently have privileges at Pryor Hospital, will work full-time at the clinic.

Obligations of Doctor

Obligations of Nurse Practitioner

Obligations of Physician Assistant

Financial Issues

Insurance and Indemnification

Confidentiality

Termination

This MOU will terminate within one (1) year after the effective date, or when the Parties have executed definitive agreements for the transactions outlined in this MOU, whichever comes first.

[any other issues you think are appropriate]

AGREED TO BY:

Doctor:

By:

Erin Green, M.D.

Dated:

Nurse Practitioner:

By:

Russell Ramzel, N.P.

Dated:

Physician Assistant:

By:

Hilary Velandia, P.A.

Dated: