Practice types
Medical malpractice insurance by practice type.
A coverage review must include the practice ownership, clinicians, services, facilities, and entities.
Ownership and physician groups
These guides cover ownership, clinician relationships, shared systems, and management services.
Independent and solo physician practice A field guide for aligning a California solo practice's clinical work, entities, people, records, and insurance as the practice opens and changes. Read the guide Small physician group A field guide for California physician groups that need their clinical work, ownership, enrollment, and insurance records to agree as the group changes. Read the guide Multispecialty medical group A field guide for California multispecialty groups that need patient handoffs, clinical control, entities, enrollment, and coverage to tell one consistent story. Read the guide NP and PA practice arrangements A field guide for California practices that need an NP or PA's authority, clinical work, entity, handoffs, and coverage records to agree. Read the guide MSO-managed practice A field guide for California medical practices that use a management services organization and need clinical control, patient continuity, entities, and coverage records to agree. Read the guide
Facilities and clinical staffing
These guides cover clinical rooms, equipment, shifts, facility contracts, and procedure staffing.
Anesthesia group A California field guide for anesthesia groups that need their team model, sites, records, clinical handoffs, contracts, and insurance to agree. Read the guide Hospitalist group A California guide for hospitalist groups that need clinical handoffs, privileges, contracts, records, transitions, and insurance to tell the same story. Read the guide Ambulatory surgery center and office-based surgery A California guide to facility status, surgical readiness, clinical episode ownership, entity boundaries, and policy-specific coverage for ASCs and office-based surgery. Read the guide Endoscopy center A California guide to facility status, procedure-specific competence, sedation, scope reprocessing, pathology follow-up, and policy-specific insurance review. Read the guide Urgent care A field guide for California urgent-care physicians who need the clinic's facility status, clinical scope, diagnostic follow-up, staffing, and insurance records to agree. Read the guide Imaging and radiology center A California guide to IDTFs, imaging technical services, report ownership, radiation programs, mammography, intervention, and policy-specific coverage review. Read the guide Outpatient specialty facilities A California framework for classifying specialty facilities, mapping actual services, testing safety systems, and asking policy-specific insurance questions. Read the guide Clinical laboratory and research practice A California guide to patient-specific laboratory results, research oversight pathways, specimen and result ownership, and policy-specific coverage review. Read the guide
Aesthetics, infusion, and new programs
These guides cover treatments, drugs, devices, clinical staff, and patient monitoring.
Physician-led med spa How a medical spa should describe its procedures, products, devices, clinicians, entities, locations, limits, and policy stack. Read the guide Injectables and cosmetic procedures A California guide to patient assessment, procedure authority, real supervision, product and device records, complication readiness, and policy-specific coverage review. Read the guide Weight loss, hormone, and longevity clinic A field guide for California physicians who need each program's assessment, product pathway, clinician authority, follow-up system, advertising, and coverage record to agree. Read the guide IV hydration and infusion practice A field guide for California physicians who need each infusion's indication, ingredients, clinician authority, medication path, emergency plan, and coverage record to agree. Read the guide Behavioral health, ketamine, and TMS practice A field guide for California physicians who need psychiatric care, ketamine, esketamine, TMS, telehealth, controlled-substance systems, and coverage records to agree. Read the guide
Access and care models
These guides cover telehealth, membership practices, mobile work, and other care models.
Functional and integrative medicine practice A California guide to turning an integrative-care philosophy into evidence-based clinical pathways, accountable follow-up, and policy-specific coverage review. Read the guide Telehealth practice A California guide to patient location, clinical suitability, prescribing, escalation, multistate authority, and policy-specific telehealth review. Read the guide Concierge and direct primary care A field guide for California physicians who need membership access, Medicare status, clinical care, continuity, entities, and insurance records to agree. Read the guide Mobile and home-based medical practice A California guide to home visits, mobile units, testing, field prescribing, clinical control, records, and policy-specific coverage review. Read the guide