About Us
We've Spent 20 Years on the Business Side of Physician Contracts. We Built a Better Way to Understand Yours.
Physician Prosperity exists because too many doctors sign contracts they don't fully understand — not because they're careless, but because no one taught them what to look for.
How This Started
Physician Prosperity didn't start as a product. It started with a problem we kept seeing up close.
For over two decades, we worked directly alongside physician contract attorneys — supporting physicians through the contract review and negotiation process from the business and operations side. We saw the same patterns emerge across thousands of agreements: physicians who didn't know what to look for, employers who relied on that knowledge gap, and contracts that cost doctors money, autonomy, and career flexibility they didn't realize they were giving up.
The physicians who got their contracts professionally reviewed almost always came out better. But most physicians never got that review — because it cost too much, took too long, or because they simply didn't know it was an option.
Contract Guard MD® is the result: a structured analysis framework that evaluates physician employment contracts across 90+ data points and delivers a detailed, personalized report — including red flags, compensation benchmarks, and a negotiation priority list — in approximately one hour.
It's the smart first step before you hire an attorney. And for many physicians, it's all they need to sign with confidence.
Our Story at a Glance
Meet the Founder
Sarah Laws has spent over 20 years working at the intersection of law, medicine, and business strategy. Since 2003, she has partnered directly with physician contract attorneys to build the systems and processes that support physicians through employment contract review and negotiation.
Her work has been hands-on and operational — analyzing contract structures, identifying patterns across thousands of agreements, developing benchmarking methodologies, and building the technology infrastructure that makes fast, thorough contract analysis possible at scale.
Sarah co-founded Physician Prosperity with attorney Dennis Hursh, Esq., drawing on his four decades of physician contract law experience to develop the analytical framework at the core of Contract Guard MD®. That framework was built on a simple conviction: physicians deserve to understand what they're signing, and that understanding shouldn't cost $2,000 or take a week.
Today, Sarah leads Physician Prosperity with the same approach that has defined her career — making complex processes simple, accessible, and actionable for the professionals who need them most.
The Foundation Behind Contract Guard MD®
The analytical framework at the core of Contract Guard MD® was co-developed with Dennis Hursh, Esq., a nationally recognized physician contract attorney and original co-founder of Physician Prosperity.
Dennis brought over 40 years of physician contract law experience to this work. He is the author of The Final Hurdle: A Physician's Guide to Negotiating a Fair Employment Agreement and has presented on physician contract issues at White Coat Investor, ACGME, and the American Health Law Association, among other organizations.
The methodology he helped create — informed by patterns, risks, and negotiation strategies identified across 1,500+ real physician contract reviews — is the foundation that ContractGuard MD is built on today.
Contracts Reviewed
The framework draws on insights from over 1,500 physician employment contracts reviewed across every major specialty and all 50 states.
Data Points Analyzed
Every report evaluates your contract across compensation, benefits, restrictive covenants, termination, malpractice, call coverage, and more.
Years of Legal Expertise
The analytical methodology was developed alongside decades of physician contract law practice — not assembled from generic legal templates.
Report Delivery
What used to take a week and cost $2,000 is now structured into a systematic framework that delivers results within minutes.
Our Mission
"Hospitals and employers benefit from physicians' skills. But the employment relationship doesn't always reflect the true value of their work."
Physician Prosperity exists to change that equation. We believe every physician, not just those who can afford premium legal fees, deserves to understand what's in their employment contract before they sign it.
That means making contract analysis fast, affordable, and genuinely useful. Not a DIY checklist. Not a generic AI chatbot. A real, structured analysis of your specific contract that is built on decades of physician contract expertise.
What We Stand For
Transparency
Our pricing is on the page. Our methodology is explained. Our limitations are stated clearly. We tell you what this is and what it isn't.
Physician-First
We work for the physician. We don't work for employers, recruiters, or health systems. Your contract, your report, your decision.
Accessibility
Contract intelligence shouldn't be a luxury. $147 and within minutes is how we make expert-level analysis available to every physician — including residents on a training salary.