CNA to RN

[Jonathan Whatley]

humboldtjake, you might look at this:

How a non-licensed person can work with a medical practice, including the use of an administrative / management services company (Matt Dickstein, mattdickstein.com)

The focus is on California law and the author is a California attorney. Similar strategies might also be possible in other states with corporate practice of medicine laws similar to California's.

The management service company is a common structure that non-licensed persons use to participate in a medical practice. Here non-licensed persons perform the administrative and back-office functions permitted by law (see above), thereby freeing the physicians to spend more time on patient care. Usually the physicians provide patient care through a professional medical corporation that they wholly own, while the non-licensed persons provide their services through an ordinary corporation or an LLC that anyone can own. The two sides use contracts to link the management service company with the medical corporation and to provide the terms of service and compensation.

The key is to provide goods and services to the medical practice without tripping any of the prohibitions above. For example, the non-licensed person can lease office space and certain equipment to the medical practice, or provide back-office administrative services including accounts payable and billing services, or help with traditional marketing, or provide staffing of non-licensed personnel. None of these functions, in themselves, involve ownership or profit-sharing in the medical practice.