Contract Types & Categories
Agreement Type | Clinical/Non-Clinical Designation | Workflow Package Category | Contract Category | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Accreditation Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement with an accreditation body to engage in its accreditation process. (Actual certificate of accreditation contract type is Certificates, Licenses & Permits.) | Supply Chain/General |
| 2 | Accredited Care Organization Agreement | Clinical | Voluntary agreement between a group of providers, hospitals, and other healthcare providers to provide coordinated, high-quality care to Medicare patients | Provider |
| 3 | Acquisition Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement to sell or acquire businesses or business lines (other than with a provider or provider group—see provider contract types) | Supply Chain/General |
| 4 | Affiliation Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement with a university or similar educational institution for the purpose of providing educational/learning/teaching opportunities in the healthcare environment | Supply Chain/General |
| 5 | Ambulance Agreement | Clinical | Agreement for the sale, purchase or non-emergent transportation services of an ambulance including restocking services | Supply Chain/General |
| 6 | Answering Services Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement in which hospital provides paging services through communications staff to providers or provider groups. Involves compliance review and may include fees paid to hospital | Supply Chain/General |
| 7 | Articles of Incorporation | Non-Clinical | Document establishing the hospital or facility and its laws, including operating agreements, bylaws and associated agreements. Must be filed with an appropriate government agency, commonly the office of the Secretary of State, for the business to be legally recognized as a corporation | Supply Chain/General |
| 8 | Assisted Living Facility Agreement | Non-Clinical | Assisted living is a residential setting focused on providing a healthy social environment, etc. Differs slightly from skilled nursing facility agreement in that patients don’t require constant care, but need assistance with activities of daily living (ADL) | Supply Chain/General |
| 9 | Athletic Training Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement in which hospital provides an athletic trainer to local schools or other group to monitor student athletes. Arrangement may provide for public relations or marketing opportunities and compensation may be paid/waived | Supply Chain/General |
| 10 | Benefits-Related Plans and Agreement | Non-Clinical | Documents related to employee benefit programs, such as health, dental, life and LTD insurance programs, and retirement and other investment/savings programs, and PTO | Supply Chain/General |
| 11 | Billing and Collection Agreements | Non-Clinical | Agreement with coding, billing or collection agency or auditing vendor to provide services on behalf of the hospital or covered entity | Supply Chain/General |
| 12 | Business Associate Agreements | Non-Clinical | An agreement between the hospital and its business associates who will use PHI in accordance with HIPAA guidelines, and have entered into an underlying contract for services or supplies (Note that the best practice is to store the BAA in the vendor contract file if not a stand alone BAA) | Supply Chain/General |
| 13 | Clinical Affiliation Agreement | Clinical | Agreement with a university or similar educational institution for the purpose of providing educational/learning/teaching opportunities in the healthcare environment | Supply Chain/General |
| 14 | Clinical Education Agreement | Clinical | Facility and School agree to enter into this Agreement to provide learning experiences for the mutual benefit of the students, as well as, the Facility’s acute care centers, outpatient centers, provider practices, nursing homes, etc. and the medical community | Supply Chain/General |
| 15 | Clinical Research Agreement | Clinical | An agreement for the purpose of clinical study or research, including clinical drug trials. Requires IRB approval (principal investigator, study site, research sponsor agreements) unless with a provider or provider group | Research |
| 16 | Clinical Services Agreement | Clinical | Agreement securing outside services from a non-referral source to be used directly in the provision of patient care or treatment, such as therapy services, dietitian/food services, laundry or technician | Supply Chain/General |
| 17 | Clinical Trial Agreement | Clinical | Agreement for the management of the relationship between the sponsor that may be providing the study drug or device, the financial support and /or proprietary information and the institution that may be providing data and/or results, publication, input into further intellectual property | Provider |
| 18 | Clinically Integrated Network Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement in which a collection of healthcare providers, such as providers, hospitals, and post-acute care treatment providers, commit to be a part of a network and provide services based on set quality standards and negotiate collectively with payers on reimbursement. This is applicable with health plans, but because it can also include bonus compensation to providers, it must be controlled | Provider |
| 19 | Confidentiality Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement intended to protect information considered to be proprietary or confidential | Supply Chain/General |
| 20 | Consignment Agreement | Non-Clinical | A consignment agreement is a type of contract between two parties, the consignor and the consignee, stipulating the details of the agreement a service like a sale, resale, transport, storage or use of particular goods | Supply Chain/General |
| 21 | Construction Agreement | Non-Clinical | Unit pricing agreement or construction/contract architecture agreement for the construction, alteration, renovation or repair of buildings or structures | Real Estate |
| 22 | Consulting Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement outlining the terms and conditions for allocating work to an outside consultant or consulting firm in a non-professional business sector | Supply Chain/General |
| 23 | Credentialing Agreement | An agreement for the services of verifying the credentials of a health care facility’s providers and other licensed health care professionals | Provider | |
| 24 | Data Use and Sharing Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement documenting what data is being shared and/or how that data can be used (Only applies to access registries, databases, remote access.) | Supply Chain/General |
| 25 | Employment Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement specifying the conditions of the relationship between a non-provider employee and an employer, including compensation and expectations | Supply Chain/General |
| 26 | Environmental Services Agreement | Clinical | Agreement for outsourced cleaning services provided onsite | Supply Chain/General |
| 27 | Equipment Lease Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement in which the owner of the equipment/supplies (the lessor) allows the user (the lessee) to operate or otherwise make use of the equipment in exchange for periodic payments | Supply Chain/General |
| 28 | Equipment Loan Agreement | Non-Clinical | Loaner agreement for equipment or supplies | Supply Chain/General |
| 29 | Equipment Maintenance Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement in which a service provider agrees to perform maintenance, support or services for equipment or supplies | Supply Chain/General |
| 30 | Equipment Purchase Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement to purchase equipment and/or associated supplies | Supply Chain/General |
| 31 | Equipment Rental Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement in which the owner of the equipment/supplies (the lessor) allows the user (the lessee) to operate or otherwise make use of the equipment in exchange for periodic payments | Supply Chain/General |
| 32 | Equipment Support and Service Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement in which a service provider agrees to provide supplies, support or services for equipment or supplies | Supply Chain/General |
| 33 | Facility Services Agreement | Non-Clinical | An agreement for the services of operation, maintenance and management services for healthcare facilities buildings and supporting facilities infrastructure | Supply Chain/General |
| 34 | Financial Services Agreement | Non-Clinical | An agreement pertaining to loans, credit, investments or general financial services | Supply Chain/General |
| 35 | Food Services Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement to outsource onsite food preparation and delivery services | Supply Chain/General |
| 36 | Fundraising Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement for the purpose of fundraising and/or donor support | Supply Chain/General |
| 37 | Gift Agreement | Non-Clinical | A donor pledge to make an irrevocable, testamentary gift of money to a foundation | Supply Chain/General |
| 38 | Grant Award Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement in which the hospital issues or receives a grant or award | Supply Chain/General |
| 39 | Home Health Agreement | Clinical | Agreement that engages a contractor to provide a full range of home health services, such as skilled nursing services, home health aide services and rehab therapies | Supply Chain/General |
| 40 | Hospice Agreement | Clinical | Agreement that engages facility to provide inpatient, respite, and/or routine care to hospice patients. Medicare requires that billing generate from hospice facility for hospice patients and agreement will cover hospice's obligation to pay facility at negotiated rate (i.e. 100% of Medicare hospice rate) | Supply Chain/General |
| 41 | Independent Contractor Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement with a non-provider individual or business contracted to perform services for the hospital. The independent contractor is not a hospital employee; the hospital can only control or direct the result of the work, not what will be done or how it will be done | Supply Chain/General |
| 42 | IT Purchase Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement to purchase IT hardware or related equipment | Supply Chain/General |
| 43 | IT Services Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement for software maintenance and support services for IT hardware or software | Supply Chain/General |
| 44 | IT Software Database Membership/Subscription | Non-Clinical | Agreement for a subscription to an external database service, typically as a reference resource, so there is no data exchange between the hospital and the vendor | Supply Chain/General |
| 45 | IT Software License Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement establishing the hospital’s right to use the software | Supply Chain/General |
| 46 | IT Software License and Service Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement establishing the hospital’s right to use the software and defining how it can be used, or a combination of software licensing and maintenance/support/service | Supply Chain/General |
| 47 | IT Software Maintenance and Support Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement defining software maintenance/support services | Supply Chain/General |
| 48 | Joint Purchasing Agreement | Non-Clinical | A joint purchasing agreement involves any arrangement under which two or more parties agree to jointly source products, whether these are components to be used by each party in the manufacture of other products or products for resale in their existing form | Supply Chain/General |
| 49 | Joint Venture Agreement | Clinical, when services to patients provided through JV | Agreement between two or more business partners to develop a new entity for their mutual benefit. Typically involves sharing of resources, such as capital, personnel, physical equipment, facilities, or intellectual property such as patents | Supply Chain/General |
| 50 | Laboratory Services Agreement | Clinical | Agreement for hospital's outsourcing or sale of lab services for patients | Supply Chain/General |
| 51 | Laundry Services Agreements | Clinical | Agreement to provide laundry/cleaning service of hospital linens | Supply Chain/General |
| 52 | Letter of Agreement | Non-Clinical | An agreement reached by the parties’ exchange of letters, such as Letters of Agreement, Letters of Intent, or Letters of Understanding. May or may not lead to future legal engagement | Supply Chain/General |
| 53 | Loan Documents | Non-Clinical | Agreement between a Borrower and Lender for an initial term loan to (ii) make available to Borrower delayed draw term loans for a set aggregate principal amount (iii) make available to Borrower a revolving credit in an aggregate principal amount in each case to provide for working capital and for other general corporate purposes of Borrower | Supply Chain/General |
| 54 | Maintenance Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement related to facilities management and maintenance issues, such as HVAC, boilers, or machinery | Supply Chain/General |
| 55 | Managed Care Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement with a health insurance provider to provide care for members at reduced costs. Includes HMO, PPO, and POS plans | Managed Care |
| 56 | Management Services Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement to provide or outsource operations, service lines, or therapies (such as lithotripsy, dialysis, cafeteria/nutrition) | Supply Chain/General |
| 57 | Marketing Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement for marketing, advertising or public relations services | Supply Chain/General |
| 58 | Master Services Agreement | Non-Clinical | An Agreement with service provider, which sets out the terms of engagement for all current and future work. It for current services and/or anticipated services, to enter into additional statements of work with service providers without the need to negotiate a new contract each time | Supply Chain/General |
| 59 | Material Transfer Agreement | Non-Clinical | Typically pertains to biological materials, so could be categorized as lab agreement | Supply Chain/General |
| 60 | Membership Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement to subscribe to a product or service or to maintain a membership in a group | Supply Chain/General |
| 61 | Memorandum of Understanding | Non-Clinical | MOU Agreements are used to establish official partnerships of mutual respect and intention to move towards a more specific and legally binding agreement in the area of interest | Supply Chain/General |
| 62 | Occupational Health Services Agreement | Clinical | Agreement for occupational health services to be provided on site at the hospital or covered entity’s employee health clinic, via mobile health clinic or at facility | Supply Chain/General |
| 63 | Partnership Agreement | Non-Clinical | An agreement for two or more organizations to manage and operate a business together with each partner sharing a portion of profits and losses, as well as, liabilities, debts, and obligations | Supply Chain/General |
| 64 | Patient Discharge Assistance Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement regarding discharging an indigent patient who needs hospital-paid home or nursing home care. Includes limitations on use/time/scope of service | Supply Chain/General |
| 65 | Permits and Licenses | Non-Clinical | Any certificate, license, or permit; usually a single-page documents with clear effective and expiration dates (If high-volume, separate into different types; otherwise, differentiate using the Description field.) | Supply Chain/General |
| 66 | Pharmacy Agreement | Clinical, if outside vendor used to obtain drugs for hospital’s patient | Agreement to obtain or dispense pharmaceuticals, or for pharmaceutical services | Supply Chain/General |
| 67 | Pricing Agreement | Non-Clinical | An agreement regarding the pricing of a specific commodity good for a specified period of time establishing a fixed price, or a price that may be tied to a market index | Supply Chain/General |
| 68 | Pricing/Rebate/Consignment/Incentive Agreement | Non-Clinical | Contract stipulating how a vendor will formulate prices during the contract period or what discounts will be offered. This includes agreements for product resale | Supply Chain/General |
| 69 | Professional Services Agreement | Non-Clinical | A contract with an individual, firm, practice or corporation to provide infrequent, technical, or unique services as an independent contractor. Examples of professional services include accounting, legal, and engineering | Supply Chain/General |
| 70 | Provider Acquisition/Sales Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement for the acquisition or sale of part or all of a provider or provider group practice | Provider |
| 71 | Provider Call Coverage Agreement | Clinical | Agreement with a provider to provide on-call coverage services | Provider |
| 72 | Provider Clinical Trial | Clinical | Agreement between the hospital and a provider or provider group to participate in or be principal investigator in a clinical trial | Provider |
| 73 | Provider Employment Agreement Mid-Level | Clinical | Agreement for employment for a Mid-Level practitioner (i.e. Nurse Practitioner, CRNA, Physician’s Assistant, etc.) | Provider |
| 74 | Provider Employment Agreement | Clinical | Employment agreement with a provider | Provider |
| 75 | Provider Hospital Leases/Sub-leases | Non-Clinical | Real estate agreement in which the Provider (lessor) leases space to another entity (lessee) | Provider |
| 76 | Provider Hospital Owns/Leases | Non-Clinical | Real estate agreement in which the Provider (lessee) leases space from another entity (lessor) | Provider |
| 77 | Provider Hospital-Based Services | Clinical | Major agreement for contracted clinical services, such as anesthesiology, radiology, or emergency services with a provider or provider group | Provider |
| 78 | Provider Independent Contractor Agreement | Clinical | Agreement with a provider as an independent contractor rather than a direct employee of the hospital | Provider |
| 79 | Provider Letter of Offer | Non-Clinical | A letter of intent /Offer is a very brief summary of the main terms of what the parties assume will be in a binding agreement ensuring that both parties are on the same page as far as the major terms of the actual agreement to be formed | Provider |
| 80 | Provider Medical Director Agreement | Clinical | Agreement with a provider to provide medical director services | Provider |
| 81 | Provider Medical Practice Asset Transaction | Non-Clinical | Agreement to purchase or sell substantially all assets used in the conduct of a provider practice, including without limitation the furniture, furnishings, and equipment; all supplies and inventory; all the trade names of the Practice; certain operating contracts and leases of the Practice; and other selected assets and rights used in the operation of the Practice | Provider |
| 82 | Provider Medical Practice Records Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement to take custody of medical records owned by provider resulting from said provider’s practice of medicine at his or her previous independent medical practice | Provider |
| 83 | Provider Medical Staff Leadership | Non-Clinical | Agreement with a provider to provide specific medical staff leadership duties, such as chief of staff or chief of a specific department | Provider |
| 84 | Provider Other Services Agreement | Clinical | An Agreement for other professional services provided by a provider to a healthcare facility including, interpretive services, peer reviews, advisory services, etc. | Provider |
| 85 | Provider Participation Agreement | Non-Clinical | An agreement stating that the provider will accept payments from the plan for services provided to patients covered by that commercial or federal health insurance plan | Supply Chain/General |
| 86 | Provider Practice Sale/Purchase Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement to sell or acquire businesses or business lines | Provider |
| 87 | Provider Recruitment Agreement | Non-Clinical | Incentive agreement for a new provider to relocate to a specified geographic area and provide services; this generally includes an Income Guaranty provision | Provider |
| 88 | Provider Residency Agreement | Clinical | Resident employment agreement with a provider | Provider |
| 89 | Provider Supervisory Services | Clinical | Agreement with a provider to supervise staff, such as residents, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, etc., outside their normal course of work | Provider |
| 90 | Purchased Services Agreement | Non-Clinical | An Agreement for services that are those outsourced to external suppliers and include costs not under direct labor or direct supplies, such as consulting, freight, travel, recycling/disposal, vehicle fleet maintenance, etc. | Supply Chain/General |
| 91 | Purchasing Agreement | Non-Clinical | Purchasing agreements are the agreements to use certain products and services on a project. Purchasing agreements are typically either fixed-price, cost-reimbursable, or time and materials | Supply Chain/General |
| 92 | Real Estate Deeds and Quitclaim Deeds | Non-Clinical | Legal documents used to reflect or transfer interest in real property | Real Estate |
| 93 | Real Estate Landlord Lease Agreement | Non-Clinical | Real estate agreement in which the hospital (lessor) leases space to another entity (lessee) that is not a provider or provider group | Real Estate |
| 94 | Real Estate Sale/Purchase Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement in which the hospital sells or purchases property to or from an entity other than a provider or provider group | |
| 95 | Real Estate Tenant Lease Agreement | Non-Clinical | Real estate agreement in which the hospital (lessee) leases space from another entity (lessor) that is not a provider or provider group | Real Estate |
| 96 | Real Estate Third-Party Lease Management Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement for outside management/monitoring of hospital leases/real estate | Supply Chain/General |
| 97 | Security Services Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement providing security services to hospital locations. Vendor may be security company or off-duty law enforcement officers | Supply Chain/General |
| 98 | Service Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement to secure outside services NOT used directly in the provision of care or treatment to patients, such waste disposal | Supply Chain/General |
| 99 | Settlement Agreement | Non-Clinical | Settlement agreement typically reached with a managed care company. Term also used for agreements for settlements with vendors outside contract terms | Supply Chain/General |
| 100 | Shared Marketing Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement between hospitals and practices to share marketing efforts. Is more complex than a normal marketing agreement due to required FMV and compliance review for split of expenses (Consider categorizing as provider contract to trigger appropriate reviews.) | Supply Chain/General |
| 101 | Skilled Nursing Facility Agreement | Clinical | Agreement with nursing facilities for people who require significant medical care. 24/7 in a skilled-care setting. Agreement also addresses Medicare consolidated billing requirement | Supply Chain/General |
| 102 | Special Events/Function Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement for a reception, recognition ceremony, company-sponsored event and the engagements for vendors/suppliers in support of the named event/function | Supply Chain/General |
| 103 | Sponsorship Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement to sponsor an activity or event, but not to be the primary event facilitator | Supply Chain/General |
| 104 | Staffing Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement for the search and selection of non-provider employees by an outside agency or individual, providing that agency or individual is NOT a provider or provider-owned | Supply Chain/General |
| 105 | Supply Agreement | Non-Clinical | An Agreement that commits a healthcare entity and a supplier to do business with each other for a set period of time, buying and selling set quantities of goods at specified prices | Supply Chain/General |
| 106 | Telecommunications Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement for providing telecommunications, such as hardware, lines, switches, services, mobile phone services, etc. | Supply Chain/General |
| 107 | Telemedicine Services Agreement | Clinical | Agreement for remote telemedicine services for patient care | Supply Chain/General |
| 108 | Therapy Services Agreement | Clinical | Agreement pertaining to physical therapy (PT), occupational therapy (OT) or speech therapy (ST) | Supply Chain/General |
| 109 | Trademark Registration | Non-Clinical | Documented proof of trademark registrations | Supply Chain/General |
| 110 | Transfer Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement for the transfer of patients, typically between a hospital and another medical facility, such as a rehabilitation or nursing facility | Supply Chain/General |
| 111 | Utility Agreement | Non-Clinical | Agreement for a utility service, such as gas, electricity, water, sewer or phone | Supply Chain/General |
| 112 | Valet Services Agreement | Clinical | Agreement for assistance provided to patients with parking services and assistance onto facility grounds | Supply Chain/General |
| 113 | Vehicle Titles | Non-Clinical | Title documents for all vehicles owned by the covered entity | Supply Chain/General |