Starting and running your practice, step by step.
Ten guides on the business side of medicine: permits, clinic setup, staff, PhilHealth accreditation, branching out, and even closing down properly.
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10 guides on Starting & Running a Practice.
A private practice is a small business, and the business side has its own requirements that arrive whether or not anyone explained them to you. This hub gathers our ten guides on building and running a practice in the Philippines, from the paperwork that must exist before your first patient to the decisions that come with growth.
Setting up? Start with starting a private practice for the full picture, then go deeper with clinic permits and licenses and setting up and staffing your clinic. As the practice matures, the guides on your obligations as an employer, PhilHealth accreditation, and opening a second clinic cover the next stage, and closing or pausing a practice explains how to stop the filing clock properly if life changes.
Each guide is practical and Philippines-specific, and where a step involves the BIR, it connects to the matching tax guide. If you'd rather have specialists run the government-facing side while you see patients, that's our whole job.
Opening a Second Clinic: The Branch Walkthrough
Branch registration, receipts, and books when your practice expands.
Hiring Your First Secretary: Employer Obligations
Payroll, SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, and withholding when you build a team.
Closing or Pausing Your Practice, Properly
Leaves, fellowships abroad, and retirement without leaving an open TIN behind.
How to Start a Private Practice in the Philippines
The full setup, from PRC and permits to BIR and PhilHealth, in the right order.
Clinic Permits and Licenses Beyond the BIR
Barangay, mayor's permit, sanitary, fire, and when you need a DOH license.
PhilHealth Accreditation and YAKAP
How to get accredited, and how Konsulta, now YAKAP, pays your clinic.
Setting Up and Staffing Your Clinic
Location, layout, equipment, your first hire, and systems that scale.
Associate and Partnership Agreements
Contractor, employee, or partner, and why the structure decides everything.
Setting Up a Telehealth Practice
The rules, e-prescriptions, data privacy, and what belongs online.
Buying Into or Investing in a Clinic
Valuation, the goodwill trap, and the due diligence before you sign.