A Healthcare Attorney's Green Flags for Clinicians Joining Startups with Rebecca Gwilt, JD

How do you know a healthcare startup is built well before you join? Clinicians are trained to be careful, but inside a startup much of the risk sits where we cannot see it: how the company is structured, who actually holds authority, and what a clinical license is being used for.

Host Helen Tanner talks with Rebecca Gwilt, JD, co-founder and managing partner of Elevare Law, who has spent more than fifteen years helping build healthcare and health tech companies after working on Affordable Care Act implementation at HHS. Rebecca is usually the one posting about what went wrong. Here, Helen asks her to name the green flags instead, so clinicians can recognize a well-built company from the inside.

In this episode:

• Why clinical governance should be built early, and which "businessy" decisions often fall under clinical purview
• The difference between a clinical title and real authority
• A plain-language explainer of the MSO-PC model behind most telehealth companies
• How contracts should separate your clinical and non-clinical roles
• Why a written path for clinical disagreement protects both the clinician and the company
• Why the best time to have your own attorney review an equity package is before you sign
• Rebecca's top three green flags, plus the community she has leaned on for years

This episode is for general education and is not legal advice.

Resources mentioned:

• Elevare Law: https://www.elevarelaw.com/
• Elevare Law article, "CPOM Isn't Your Only MSO-PC Risk. It's Not Even the Scariest One.": https://www.elevarelaw.com/blog-articles/cpom-isnt-your-only-mso-pc-risk-its-not-even-the-scariest-one
• Health Tech Nerds: https://www.healthtechnerds.com/
• Search terms for further reading: "MSO-PC" and "corporate practice of medicine"

Connect with Rebecca Gwilt:

• Elevare Law: https://www.elevarelaw.com/team/rebecca-gwilt
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccagwilt/

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