Everything you need to start and operate a modern independent practice.
Openwell launches your independent cash-pay practice and runs the operating system it lives on. Start on the side while you keep your job. It is reversible, and you go full-time only when the practice proves itself.
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One partner to launch, run, and grow an independent practice.
Openwell is a service that launches your independent cash-pay practice and an operating system it runs on every day. You keep the medicine, the panel, and the relationship. We carry the rest.
Launch your practice
The service that stands your practice up. Entity formation, credentialing, malpractice, payments, and compliance setup, run by the Openwell team while you keep seeing patients at your day job.
- Physician-owned entity, your state's rules
- Credentialing, malpractice, and payments
- Weeks, not months
Run your practice
The operating system your practice runs on. Intake, scheduling, clinical documentation, cash-pay billing, labs, dispensary, and patient messaging in one AI-native system built for cash-pay care.
- One system for the whole practice
- Cash-pay billing and memberships
- You watch it run on demo patients first
Grow your practice
The resources to grow into a full panel. Plain-language guides, launch playbooks, and the operating best practices we wish every independent physician had before they started.
- Guides and launch playbooks
- Best practices from launch onward
- Support as your panel grows
You practice medicine.
The OS runs the practice.
One AI-native system, built for cash-pay practices, does the busywork. The judgment, the medicine, and the relationship stay yours.
Intake, scheduling, clinical documentation, cash-pay billing, memberships, ACH and card payments, dispensary and lab ordering, and HIPAA-grade security: one system. You watch it run on demo patients before you go live.
Built for your specialty.
Openwell is shaped to the cash-pay practice you actually run, with intake, labs, and workflows tuned to each field. Find yours.
Two ways in.
Side Launch
Launch alongside your current job.
- Runs in roughly 10 hours a week
- Free to model and assess before you commit
- Cancel anytime, no annual commitment
Full Launch
The practice as your career.
- Your full-time, physician-owned practice
- White-glove assessment before you go live
- Cancel anytime, no annual commitment
The future of medicine is not an AI doctor. It is your doctor, with better tools.
People bring their hardest health questions to a chatbot because the human door is too hard to open. When the answer is hard, someone has to answer for it: a license, a name, a person who knows you.
What patients want is not an app. It is a physician they can reach, running their own practice. The best use of AI is not replacing that physician. It is collapsing the overhead that made independent, personal medicine rare, so one physician can run a practice that answers only to their patients. That is what we are building.
Read our storyFrom employed to independent.
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Check your contract
Free, takes minutes. Green is a clear read that the path is open for you. Only yellow gets a detailed review that credits in full toward your launch. Red is an honest not yet, with options to consider.
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Plan the practice
Name it, budget it, and configure it. Watch it run on demo patients before you go live.
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Launch on the side
We run the verification, paperwork, malpractice, payments, and compliance work while you keep seeing patients at your day job. Weeks, not months.
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Go full-time when you are ready
You go full-time once the practice proves itself, not before. The one you built on the side is the one you take with you. Nothing gets rebuilt, and we handle the switch.
We run the launch.
Weeks, not months.
See everything we handle before you commit.
Formation
The entity your state actually permits, PC, PA, or PLLC, with your practice name checked against state rules, a registered agent included, and every filed document stored in the Openwell OS.
- Physician-owned entity, your state's rules
- Name check and registered agent included
- Document vault in the Openwell OS
Protection
Ownership structured to survive audits and payer scrutiny, malpractice insurance facilitated before your first patient, and every consent, HIPAA agreement, and BAA executed.
- Ownership built for strict states
- Malpractice insurance facilitated
- Consents, legal documents, HIPAA and BAA
Operations
NPI and payments live at standard rates, dispensary and lab ordering inside the Openwell OS the day you're approved, and HIPAA-compliant patient messaging from day one.
- NPI, license and payments setup
- Dispensary and lab in the Openwell OS
- HIPAA-compliant patient comms from day one
Disclosed up front. Run by the Openwell team after you commit. Weeks, not months.
Week 6 · you're seeing patientsAsked by every physician who got this far.
Can I do this while staying employed?
Yes. Launching on the side is common and runs alongside your current job in roughly ten hours a week. You keep your salary while the practice proves itself, it is reversible, and you can cancel anytime.
Does my contract allow me to start my own practice?
The free check reads your employment terms in plain language: whether you can start a side practice now, or need to wait out a notice period first. A red result is an honest not yet, with the date you can revisit. It is a directional read based on your answers and common contract patterns, not legal advice, so have your specific agreement reviewed by counsel before acting.
What if my contract says no?
We will connect you with a network of healthcare attorneys who can review your contract and your situation in more depth. Book a time with us and we will make the introduction.
Will patients pay cash for my services?
The demand is already there. Americans spent more than $550 billion out of pocket on care in 2024, and direct, membership, and cash-pay practices are among the fastest-growing models in medicine. We will not speak for your market. You build your own waitlist under your own brand, watch your own numbers, and decide when they convince you.
Do I need to form a company first?
No. We set up your physician-owned entity for you, structured to your state's rules, along with the rest of the launch checklist.
Who handles malpractice insurance?
It is handled as part of activation. Your practice holds its own policy through a licensed broker, so the carrier bears the risk and Openwell coordinates it without being your insurer.
Is the contract check legal advice?
No. The contract check is a tool that gives a directional read based on your answers and common contract patterns. It is not legal advice and does not create an attorney-client relationship, so have your specific agreement reviewed by counsel before acting.
Not ready to check? Start with the playbooks.
The guides we wish every employed physician had before they thought about going independent. Free. No pitch.
Find out where you stand.
The contract check is free and takes minutes. Stay employed while you find out.
Talk to Ji Kim, Openwell's co-founder and COO, about what launching your practice actually takes.
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Orientation, not legal advice · every output routes to independent counsel