Practice Entities 101 / Course 04
Practice Entities 101
How California ownership rules, entity separation, property, leases, management, and insurance divide responsibility.
The legal structure must match the daily operation of the practice.
Identify each entity and its responsibility.
Record which entity owns the practice, property, contracts, accounts, and insurance.
California medical-practice entities: clinical control, assets, and insurance records
A California physician guide to the professional practice, MSO, property entity, clinical control, contracts, and policy-specific coverage review.
Guides in Practice Entities 101.
Part 01
Form and operate the practice entity
Identify the permitted practice entity and keep its operations separate from its owners.
- 01 Read the guide
Entity separation only works if the practice lives it
A California physician guide to records, money, contracts, clinical-control boundaries, and policy evidence that support an entity's real role.
- 02 Read the guide
What a California LLC charging order reaches - and what it does not
A California physician guide to LLC interests, charging orders, foreclosure risk, property entities, and why an LLC cannot be the medical practice.
Part 02
Separate property and management
Separate clinical ownership from property, leases, guarantees, and administrative services.
- 03 Read the guide
Practice property, leases, and insurance: make every entity's role explicit
A California physician guide to the professional practice, property owner, lease, personal guarantee, asset schedule, and issued-policy review.
- 04 Read the guide
An MSO can manage administration. It cannot manage medicine.
A California physician guide to MSO agreements, clinical-control boundaries, records, termination, investor rules, and policy-specific coverage review.
Part 03
Evaluate group risk programs
Review the capital, claims process, and governance required for a group risk program.
- 05 Read the guide
When a medical group retains malpractice risk: captive, retention, or RRG?
A physician guide to commercial deductibles, self-insured retentions, captives, risk retention groups, reinsurance, severe-loss risk, and exit terms.