Description

On-Demand Video Series | Videos Recorded in 2024 and 2025

This video package offers a wealth of educational material on the concept of directly contracting with healthcare facilities for locum-type work. Too often, physicians are instructed to work through locums agencies, but there is another option: Direct Contracting. This video package includes a plethora of videos that provide detailed information for any physician looking to escape working for locum agencies and to start contracting directly. This video package includes videos about the topic of direct contracting from the following events/locations:

• FlexMedStaff YouTube channel
• 2024 and 2025 FlexMedStaff Summit
• FlexMedStaff webinars from 2024 and 2025

This all-inclusive package of videos provides all the tools to show physicians exactly how to contract directly and how it works. This video package is designed to shorten your learning curve, help you avoid costly missteps, and empower you to approach opportunities to contract directly with confidence.

This on-demand video package includes 71 physician-led recordings totaling nearly 32 hours of content. This video collection brings together curated videos about contracting directly from the former FlexMedStaff YouTube channel, as well as recordings from the 2024 and 2025 FlexMedStaff Summits and webinars. Individual sessions range from brief, focused discussions lasting just a few minutes to in-depth presentations lasting up to one hour.

What You’ll Learn in This Video Package

• Recognize the advantages and disadvantages of going without a locum agency
• Basic steps to understand how direct contracting actually works
• Understanding the barriers to direct contracting and how to overcome them
• How to find healthcare facilties and what to say to them
• How to negotiate pay, schedule, malpractice coverage, and contract terms
• Understanding fair market value and physician compensation when contracting directly
• Preparing and organizing yourself to direct contract
• Understanding malpractice insurance and how to obtain it
• How to structure yourself as a physician small business (LLC/PLLC, 1099 vs W-2)
• Building your personal brand and staying competitive

This video collection is designed for physicians at any stage of their locums journey and have an interest in contracting directly with healthcare facilities rather than always going through a locums agency. Whether you are exploring locums for the first time or are a veteran of working through locums agencies, there is valuable content to help you succeed with contracting directly. The content is useful for those looking for PRN, part-time, full-time, or non-traditional clinical arrangements that enhance their income and/or promote work-life balance. Overall, these videos are intended for physicians who want greater autonomy and control of their clinical arrangements by contracting directly without always having to go through a staffing agency.

Video lectures include the following:

• Who Pays for Credentialing Fees at a New Facility? (2.5 minute)
• How Many DEA Licenses Should We Have? (4 minute)
• How to Register Your PLLC or LLC? (5 minute)
• What to Name Your LLC or PLLC? (6 minute)
• When Should Physicians Hire a Lawyer to Handle Issues on the Job? (5 minute)
• How Physicians Should Have Their Roles to Be Defined in Their Contracts (5 minute)
• What to Say Initially to Facilities When Contracting Directly? (3.5 minute)
• Who You Should Reach Out to at a Facility for New Opportunities? (6 minute)
• What to Do About Housing for Long-term Locums Assignments? (4 minute)
• Keeping Updated with Life Support Certifications (6 minute)
• Don’t Forget to Schedule Your Orientation at a New Facility to Start Providing Services on Time (5.5 minute)
• What to Know About the IMLCC Compact License for Physicians (12 minute)
• Speak With an On-site Physician Before Your Next Opportunity at a Medical Facility (5 minute)
• How to Find Hospitals and Medical Facilities to Contract Directly (11 minute)
• Advice on Selecting a Malpractice Insurance Carrier (6.5 minute)
• Understanding Group Malpractice Policies and the Certificate of Insurance (13 minute)
• How to Contact Private Practices to Contract Directly (6 minute)
• How to Deal with Low-ball Offers from Medical Facilities (12 minute)
• How to Be a Great Part-time, Locums, and Non-traditional Physician (9 minute)
• Why Is There a Discrepancy in Pay When Contracting Directly vs Working with a Locums Agency (18 minute)
• What to Say at Your First Discussion with a Facility to Negotiate Directly (9 minute)
• How to Contract Directly When the Facility Only Wants to Work with Staffing Agencies (9 minute)
• How to Deal with a Locums Non-compete and Buy-out Fees When Trying to Contract Directly (8 minute)
• Understanding Tail Insurance (4 minute)
• How to Overcome the Barrier of Getting Malpractice Insurance When Contracting Directly (6 minute)
• Dealing with Malpractice Insurance When Contracting Directly (15 minute)
• How to Handle Malpractice Insurance When Negotiating with a Medical Facility (3 minute)
• Knowing the Basics of Contracting Directly as a 1099 Independent Contractor vs W2 Employee (12.5 minute)
• Why We Did LLC and PLLC When Contracting Directly with Medical Facilities (9.5 minute)
• Understanding the Basics of 1099 and W2 (6 minute)
• The Basics for Physicians to Contracting Directly as a W2 and 1099 (12 minute)
• What Are Some of the Reasons to Contract Directly Rather Than Working Through a Locums Agency (6 minute)
• Alternative Malpractice Insurance Options at the VA, Correctional Facilities, and Indian Health Facilities (3 minute)
• Is Health Insurance a Business Deductible? (2.5 minute)
• Understanding the Difference Between a Malpractice Insurance Broker and Agent (3 minute)
• Understanding the Difference of Claims-made and Occurrence-based Malpractice Insurance Policies (5.5 minute)
• What Does That $1 Over $3 Million Mean on Your Malpractice Policy (3 minute)
• Why Do You Need Malpractice Insurance as a Physician? (4 minute)
• You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know: Mitigating Risks in Locums (45 minute)
• Negotiating to Contract Directly: Lessons Learned from Booking a Hotel Conference (60 minute)
• Shifts, Flights, and Sleepless Nights: Mastering Sleep Health for Locums Tenens (40 minute)
• Post-Summit Q&A Webinar #1 (120 minute)
• Post-Summit Q&A Webinar #2 (60 minute)
• Direct Contracting for Physicians: Ditch the Middleman, Date the Right Partner (28 minute)
• Shower Hour: General Locums Focus (80 minute)
• My Direct Deal Diary (24 minute)
• Direct Contracting Panel Discussion (30 minute)
• Shower Hour: Focus on Direct Contracting (90 minute)
• Preparing for Your Transition: Your Runway to Success (30 minute)
• Understanding Fair Market Value (FMV) for Independent and Locums Physicians (27 minute)
• Embracing Change: Non-traditional Working Arrangements for Physicians and Facilities (50 minute)
• Where Is Waldo: Finding Opportunities to Contract Directly (19 minute)
• Unlocking Opportunities: Strategic Advantage of Having Multiple DEAs and Medical Licenses (18 minute)
• Credentialing Tips and Tricks (20 minute)
• Plug and Play: How to Ease Transition to a New Unit (27 minute)
• Staying Organized: Creating a One-Doc Small Business (30 minute)
• Navigating Contract Work with a Young Family (25 minute)
• Market Overview – Seeing the Forest from the Eyes of the Tree (25 minute)
• Understanding the Locums Game (18 minute)
• Guide to Getting Started: A Road Map to Independent Physician Work (65 minute)
• Elevating Your Worth: Crafting Creative Responses to Low-ball Offers (35 minute)
• Medical Malpractice Know-how (70 minute)
• The Importance of Building Your Own Personal Brand (30 minute)
• C’mon Man: 11 Contractual Issues with a PSA (60 minute)
• Determining Fair Compensation for Physicians Contracting Directly (90 minute)
• It Can Be Done: Contracting Directly in 4 Weeks (100 minute)
• Part 1: The Basics of W2 vs 1099 (65 minute)
• Part 2: Elements to Understand When Negotiating as a W2 vs 1099 (65 minute)
• Part 3: Understand the Elements in Contract as W2 vs 1099 (75 minute)
• The 7 Elements of Negotiation When Contracting Directly (100 minute)
• Locums Liaison: Frequently Asked Questions (40 minute)

Included:

• Access to 71 recorded sessions, with nearly 32 hours of on-demand content
• Content from the former FlexMedStaff YouTube and the 2024 and 2025 FlexMedStaff Summits and webinars
• 32 hours of content
• 6 months of replay access through your member portal