Physicians & Surgeons
As a trusted strategic partner focused on premier customer service, Sterling Risk Advisors has an unequalled commitment to serving physicians and surgeons. Sterling Risk Advisors’ Medical Services Practice Group is focused on medical malpractice risk exposures. As the largest broker of malpractice insurance in Georgia, Sterling Risk Advisors writes insurance for over 2,000 doctors and 800 other medical providers throughout the Southeast.
Extensive Range of Coverage
Sterling Risk Advisors is the only brokerage firm in Georgia representing all of the major standard physician malpractice carriers that write coverages across the state. We insure both private practice physicians and surgeons as well as those who work for hospitals and healthcare enterprises. Our expertise extends beyond medical malpractice to include property and casualty, workers compensation, employee benefits, risk management and claims management, as well as other specialized needs of our insured practices.
Unique Understanding of Medical Practice
Our professionals are not only experts in the insurance business, they’re experts in the details of how practices operate and the challenges they face. Sterling Risk Advisors’ expertise in risk management supports each client’s practice with advice that enhances operations and proactively avoids litigation. We also offer unique 24/7 availability, detailed below, when you need knowledgeable resources and quick answers to management questions or help with potential claims situations.
With a tradition of doctor advocacy, Sterling Risk Advisors puts its practices first, through a uniquely motivated advisory culture that sets the bar high, assuring quality, timely and cost effective results for our insureds.
Comprehensive Services Based Upon Business Expertise
Only by knowing your practice and all its intricacies can we develop a strategy that is right for you. Our services include, but are not limited to:
- Exposure Analysis
- Risk Marketing and Placement
- Malpractice Application Pre-Population
- Claims Management/Monitoring
- Resource Utilization Assistance
- Contract/Document Review
Continuum of Insurance Lines from the Best in the Industry
Sterling Risk Advisors has a long history of excellence in identifying, analyzing and fulfilling the needs of our insured through coverage from the best insurers at the most cost effective premiums available. Our comprehensive insurance lines include:
- Medical Malpractice
- Full Service Office Coverages
- Workers Compensation
- Aligned Facility Professional Liability
- Employee Benefit Plans
- Directors & Officers and Employment Practices Liability
- Managed Care and Billing Errors and Omissions Liability
There When You Need Us With 24/7 Availability
Sterling Risk Advisors is available 24/7 including evenings, weekends and holidays to assist you. Our mobile technology assures you can reach one of us anytime, day or night. This service is complimentary.
Risk Management Areas where our advice can be of assistance to your practice typically include:
- Delivering the news of an unexpected outcome to patients/families in the best way so as to protect you and your practice from a potential claim
- Dismissing/handling a non-compliant patient
- Questions regarding requests for medical records
- Regulations with regard to reporting abuse/neglect
- Regulations regarding patient consent or age of permissible consent
You’ll find us to be responsive, well informed and dedicated to your needs.
As your trusted strategic partner, Sterling Risk Advisors provides only the best advice and counsel, creating long-term relationships that are mutually beneficial to both parties. Our industry success is founded upon integrity, mutual trust and respect.
