One thing to note is that in California it's very hard for a physician to be employed by a non-physician group due to how the law is set up. Essentially anything governing the physician's work both clinically (treatment, referrals, etc) and administratively (record keeping, contracts, employment decsions regarding nursing/allied health staff when it comes to clinical competence, etc) must be made by a physician since it's considered to be a part of the practice of medicine. Corporations are not licensed to practice medicine.
http://www.mbc.ca.gov/Licensees/Corporate_Practice.aspx
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The following types of medical practice ownership and operating structures also are prohibited:
http://www.mbc.ca.gov/Licensees/Corporate_Practice.aspx
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The following types of medical practice ownership and operating structures also are prohibited:
- Non-physicians owning or operating a business that offers patient evaluation, diagnosis, care and/or treatment.
- Physician(s) operating a medical practice as a limited liability company, a limited liability partnership, or a general corporation.
- Management service organizations arranging for, advertising, or providing medical services rather than only providing administrative staff and services for a physician's medical practice (non-physician exercising controls over a physician's medical practice, even where physicians own and operate the business).
- A physician acting as "medical director" when the physician does not own the practice. For example, a business offering spa treatments that include medical procedures such as Botox injections, laser hair removal, and medical microdermabrasion, that contracts with or hires a physician as its "medical director."
