Elite Physicians Wealth Planning™

Business Insurance & Risk Management

Protect the Practice You’ve Worked So Hard to Build.

Your medical practice represents years of education, sacrifice, investment, and professional achievement. But building wealth through a successful practice also creates risk.

Request a Physician Practice Risk Review

Overview

Elite Physicians Wealth Planning helps physicians evaluate business insurance and risk-management strategies designed to protect the practice while coordinating those decisions with the physician’s broader financial plan.

Your Practice May Be One of Your Most Valuable Assets

The medical practice may provide current income, retirement-plan contributions, employment for staff, equity value, real estate opportunities, future sale value, and family financial security. Protecting the practice is therefore part of protecting the physician’s personal wealth.

Business Insurance Solutions for Medical Practices

  • Commercial General Liability

    Protection for certain third-party claims involving bodily injury, property damage, and other covered liabilities. Needs vary based on patient traffic, premises, contracts, staffing, and operations.

  • Professional Liability

    Professional liability exposure should be evaluated based on the physician’s specialty, practice structure, services, contractual obligations, and existing coverage. This coverage is distinct from general business liability.

  • Commercial Property

    Coverage for buildings, office contents, medical equipment, computers, furniture, tenant improvements, inventory, and other covered property depending on the policy.

  • Business Interruption / Business Income

    Coverage that may help address eligible lost income and continuing expenses when a covered event prevents the practice from operating.

  • Cyber Liability & Data Breach

    Coverage designed to address certain financial exposures associated with cyber events, privacy incidents, ransomware, system interruption, and data-breach response. Insurance complements, but does not replace, cybersecurity controls.

  • Employment Practices Liability – EPLI

    Coverage that may respond to certain employment-related allegations such as discrimination, harassment, retaliation, or wrongful termination, subject to policy terms.

  • Workers’ Compensation

    Coverage addressing employee work-related injuries or illnesses as required or applicable under state law and policy terms.

  • Commercial Auto

    Coverage for vehicles owned, leased, or used in connection with business operations, depending on how the practice uses vehicles.

  • Business Owner Policy – BOP

    For eligible businesses, a BOP may package core coverages such as general liability, commercial property, and business income into one policy.

  • Commercial Umbrella / Excess Liability

    Additional liability limits that may sit above certain underlying commercial policies, subject to policy structure and eligibility.

  • Key Person Life Insurance

    Life insurance designed to help address the financial impact that the death of an owner, physician, or other key person could have on the business.

  • Buy-Sell & Business Continuity Funding

    Insurance strategies that may help fund ownership transition obligations and support continuity when a partner or owner dies or becomes disabled, depending on the arrangement.

Why Physicians Need an Integrated Risk Review

A medical practice may have several policies purchased at different times, from different carriers, for different reasons. The risk is not always a lack of insurance; sometimes it is a lack of coordination.

A physician practice risk review should consider how the policies work together, where meaningful gaps may exist, whether limits reflect the current size of the practice, and how business protection connects with personal financial and succession planning.

Managing Director — Commercial Lending & Business Risk Solutions

Meet Roderick Johnson

Roderick Johnson, Managing Director, Commercial Lending & Business Risk Solutions

Roderick Johnson brings extensive experience in commercial finance, small-business services, and business insurance. Within Elite Physicians Wealth Planning, he helps physicians and practice owners evaluate commercial risk exposures and coordinates insurance solutions with the broader financial-planning relationship.

His role is particularly important for physician owners because decisions involving insurance, financing, practice ownership, business succession, and personal wealth are often interconnected. The objective is to help the physician see the entire financial picture rather than purchase business coverage in isolation.

Read Roderick’s full bio

The Physician Practice Risk Review

  • 1. Understand the Practice

    Review ownership, specialty, locations, employees, property, vehicles, technology, contracts, revenue concentration, and business structure.

  • 2. Identify Major Exposures

    Consider liability, property, cyber, employment, business interruption, key-person, vehicle, and other material exposures.

  • 3. Review Current Coverage

    Examine existing policies, limits, deductibles, exclusions, endorsements, renewal dates, and overlapping or missing protection.

  • 4. Prioritize the Risks

    Separate critical exposures from lower-priority issues so recommendations remain practical and financially disciplined.

  • 5. Coordinate Coverage

    Where appropriate, coordinate with insurance carriers, brokers, attorneys, CPAs, lenders, and other professionals.

  • 6. Connect Risk Management to the Financial Plan

    Consider how insurance decisions affect practice continuity, debt obligations, retirement strategy, buy-sell planning, succession, and the physician’s personal financial security.

Common Physician Practice Risk Questions

  • If the practice is forced to close temporarily, how long can it continue paying payroll and fixed expenses?
  • Are cyber limits appropriate for the amount and sensitivity of patient and employee information maintained by the practice?
  • Does the practice have insurance appropriate for its employees, vehicles, property, and contractual obligations?
  • Would the business remain financially stable if a key physician died unexpectedly?
  • Is there a funded plan for the death, disability, retirement, or departure of an owner?
  • Have insurance limits kept pace with practice growth, equipment purchases, new locations, or increased payroll?
  • Are the physician’s personal wealth plan and practice risk-management plan coordinated?

The Integrated Elite Physician Approach

  • Protect the practice

    • General Liability
    • Property
    • Cyber
    • EPLI
    • Workers’ Compensation
    • Business Interruption
    • Commercial Auto
  • Protect the physician

    • Key Person Coverage
    • Buy-Sell Funding
    • Disability Planning
    • Retirement Planning
    • Wealth Management
    • Estate Planning
    • Succession Planning

How well protected is your practice today?

Request a structured review of your current business risks and insurance program. The goal is to identify meaningful gaps, unnecessary overlap, and opportunities to better coordinate protection with the rest of your financial plan.

Hours
Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM

No obligation. Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM.

Please do not include Social Security numbers, account numbers, health information, tax documents, or other sensitive data in this form.

Important disclosure

Insurance products and availability vary by state, carrier, underwriting, eligibility, and policy terms. Coverage descriptions are general and do not amend or replace any insurance contract. Policy forms, limits, exclusions, deductibles, and endorsements should be reviewed before coverage is purchased or changed. Professional liability and certain specialized coverages may be placed or serviced through appropriately licensed insurance professionals or carrier relationships.