For employed physicians in California

Start a practice in California.

California has the strictest rules in the country about who can own a medical practice, and that is exactly the part Openwell handles. We run the California-specific launch and give you the operating system your practice runs on. Stay employed while your panel grows.

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Free · takes minutes · orientation, not legal advice

A physician looking out over a California cityscape at dusk
The three walls

You've wanted your own practice in California for years. Three questions keep stopping you.

California's corporate-practice rules make launching here feel impossible on your own.

That structure is the work Openwell does: we run the California-specific formation and launch steps and route every legal question to independent counsel. You keep the medicine.

“My contract might not let me.”

The free check reads your employment terms in plain language: one light for a side practice, one for full-time after notice. A red light gets an honest not yet, with the date we come back on.

“I can't just walk away from my salary.”

You don't have to. Side Launch runs alongside your job in roughly ten hours a week. It is reversible, and you can cancel anytime.

What your launch covers

The launch, run for California.

This is the product vision we're building and testing with founding clinical advisors, not a claim that every step ships today. It's the launch you'd run if the structure ran itself.

  • California-specific entity formation and launch steps
  • Verification, paperwork, and payments setup
  • The operating system your practice runs on
  • A reversible side launch that runs alongside your job
  • Every legal question routed to independent counsel
Guides & playbooks

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.

Ji Kim, co-founder and COO of Openwell Talk to Ji Kim, Openwell's co-founder and COO, about what launching your practice actually takes. Book a call

Orientation, not legal advice · every output routes to independent counsel