Protect Your Practice and Yourself with Overhead Disability Insurance Coverage

As a physician, you must also protect the source of your income: the practice you’ve worked so hard to establish and grow. Special policies, available from the same disability insurance providers who offer high-quality individual coverage, offer your practice protection while you recover from a disability.

Overhead Expense Coverage

To help meet the expenses of running the office while you are disabled, consider a separate type of disability coverage known as Overhead Expense or OE. Benefits reimburse your practice for expenses such as rent for your office, electricity, heat, telephone and utilities and interest on business debts and lease payments on furniture and equipment.

Physician Specific Insurance

Overhead expense insurance specifically designed for professionals pays some additional costs not included in regular business overhead expense policies—including the salaries of employees except those who are members of your profession. In a practice such as yours, for example, salaries for the receptionist and nurse would be covered, but not the salary of your physician partner or employee. However, high-quality professional overhead insurance policies will cover at least part of the salary of a professional temporary replacement for you, such as a doctor retained to fill in during your total disability.

About the Author

Reed Tinsley CPA

This article is written by Reed Tinsley, a Houston, TX-based CPA with over 30 years of experience advising physicians and medical practices across Texas and the United States. Reed holds certifications as a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), Certified Healthcare Business Consultant (CHBC), and Certified Financial Planner (CFP), specializing exclusively in the healthcare sector. He is a published author, nationally recognized speaker, and trusted advisor to physicians on accounting & tax, practice management, and financial planning. Schedule a Free Consultation.