California workers’ compensation does not ask how many providers are in the practice. A solo primary treating physician owes the same Doctor’s First Report on the same five-day clock, the same PR-2 cadence, the same service on the same parties, and chases the same carriers on the same payment windows as a twelve-provider group — while also seeing the patients. The group has a billing department, a med-legal coordinator and someone whose job is the calendar. That is the actual asymmetry, and it is an administrative one rather than a clinical one.
ChironAI™ OM is the part a group staffs. It is generally available, and a solo practice contracts for it the same way a group does.
8 CCR §9785(e)(1)
Form 5021 is owed within five business days of the initial examination. A new primary treating physician taking over a case owes another one. OM raises the obligation from the encounter that created it and drafts the form from the case, rather than waiting for someone to remember the duty exists.
8 CCR §9785(f)
Not five business days — twenty, and counted in plain calendar days, which is what the subdivision says. The product carried the wrong rule at one point and it was corrected there, in the engine, so that every surface reading from it moved at once.
8 CCR §9785
The periodic report runs on its own clock, from the last report or the initial examination. A daily sweep at 07:00 evaluates it for every active case, raises the obligation, and escalates it when it goes overdue — so the cadence is a queue rather than something you keep in your head between patients.
8 CCR §9785(c)–(d)
Writing the report is half the duty. Serving it on the injured worker, the claims administrator and the attorneys is the other half, and the half a dispute turns on. Proof of service is recorded against the report — who it went to, how, and when — including the moment a secure link was opened.
LC §4610
A request for authorization is drafted against MTUS and scored for whether it is likely to be denied before it is sent. A denied RFA is three weeks of treatment nobody delivered and nobody billed, and a solo practice absorbs that whole.
LC §4603.2 · §4622
Forty-five calendar days on a treatment bill, sixty on medical-legal. Miss the first and §4603.2 adds 15% plus interest automatically; miss the second and §4622 adds 10% plus 7% on what is unreasonably unpaid. Calendar days, not business days. Most practices never bill this line; a solo practice is the least likely of all to have the time to.
Every statutory deadline in the case is computed rather than estimated, against the California calendar with its holidays. The daily sweep surfaces what is approaching within a week and what is already overdue. In a group this is somebody’s job; solo, it is usually nobody’s.
Form 5021, PR-2, P&S under §4061 and the rest are drafted from the case that produced them, with every field traceable to the source it came from. Nothing becomes final without the physician reviewing and attesting to it, the AI-use disclosure is non-dismissible, and it persists through the signed PDF.
A denied charge is classified, the second-review argument is drafted against the reason the carrier actually gave, and the SBR-1 is populated. Whether it is worth filing is your call; the system makes sure the window has not closed while you decide.
A subpoena or a request from opposing counsel is answered from the chart you already hold — assembled as a Bates-numbered packet with a manifest, a withheld log, and a record of exactly what went out. That subsystem has its own page: read about records disclosure and production.
There is no cut-down edition. A solo practice runs the same platform a multi-site group runs, on the same tenant-isolated architecture, with the same attestation gate in front of every AI-drafted document.
The disclosure subsystem is described in full on records disclosure and production, the money path on revenue cycle, and the complete inventory on the capabilities page.
Every clinical or medical-legal document the system produces is a draft staged for the physician’s review. Nothing reaches a carrier, a claims examiner or a patient without a physician reading it and attesting to it, the disclosure that artificial intelligence was used in its preparation is not dismissible, and it survives into the signed PDF. Solo practice removes the colleague who would otherwise catch a mistake, so the gate matters more, not less — which is why there is no configuration that turns it off.
The clinical judgement, the diagnosis, the treatment plan and the opinion remain the physician’s. ChironAI™ OM organises the record, computes the deadlines, drafts against the source and shows its working. How the drafting is constrained is a separate page, and worth the ten minutes before any of the above is taken on trust.
ChironAI is contracted with the practice rather than sold seat by seat, and priced per clinician — a solo practice is a practice with one clinician on the contract. The factors that move a quote, including integration depth and regulated workflow scope, are set out in full on the pricing page; no figure is published here that is not published there.
Integration depth is a contracted scope, not a precondition. It runs from read-only document export through structured-data sync to bidirectional HL7/FHIR and single sign-on via Microsoft Entra ID, and what you contract is what you pay for. Bring the question to the demo with your current setup and we will scope it honestly rather than quote an integration you may not need.
Same platform, same architecture, same review-before-final gate, same tenant isolation, same source-grounded reports and audit chain. What differs is scope — how many clinicians are on the contract, and how deep the integration goes — not capability.
Yes, and it is the only evaluation we think is worth much. Bring a de-identified workers’-compensation case file to the demo and we will work it in front of you: the reasoning, the citations, the drafted report, and the point at which it stops and hands the decision back to you.
A de-identified workers’-compensation file is a better test than anything we could put on a slide. We will work it in front of you — the records read, the clocks computed, the report drafted, the denial argued — and you will see precisely where the software stops and the physician starts.
Bring one month of EORs — you keep the findings either way.
Tell us the workflow you want to see and who needs to be in the room. A member of our clinical and engineering team replies within two business days to arrange it — a real person, not a sequence.
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