Telepsychiatry
Telepsychiatry, statewide hub
Remote coverage for correctional and state facilities. Work from home, set schedule, malpractice included.
$240–350 / hr advertised (Oct 2026 postings)
Psychiatry staffing, without the middlemen
We fetch it.
You confirm it.
You start sooner.
ClearPanel is a direct panel for psychiatrists who want California inpatient, state hospital, correctional and telepsychiatry work, without re-typing the same history for every agency, or uploading PDFs a public registry already holds.
Give us your name, date of birth and California license number, plus consent to verify you. We assemble your credential file from the registries; you confirm it and e-sign. That is the whole form.
~12 minTypical time to complete, start to signature
1 fileOne credential file, reused for every placement
Margin disclosedThe market's agency margin, printed in full on every rate
Credential filePREVIEW · ILLUSTRATION
MBCalifornia licenseStatus, issue and expiry, published historyAuto-fetched
DEADEA registrationStatus and schedules on fileAuto-fetched
NPPESNPITaxonomy and practice locationsAuto-fetched
ABPNBoard certificationCertification and training historyConfirm
OIGExclusion screeningOIG LEIE and SAM.gov, continuousAuto-fetched
NPDBNPDB continuous queryShown to you firstConfirm
YOUContact, preferences, availabilityThe only typing we ask forYou provide
3 details in · 1 file out · agency margin printed on every rate
● Auto-fetched, we retrieve it● Confirm, you check it● You provide, only you know it
No packet of PDFs from five different recruiters. No “please also upload your diploma, DEA, and board certificate” when those records are verifiable at the source.
One hour, priced2026 · EST.
STATE$405Implied all-in rate per hour (est.)
CONTRACT MANAGER−$15Management fee (est.). Holds the statewide contract, employs no doctors
AGENCY · CLEARPANEL−$90$75 fee, disclosed · $15 real costs, named
PSYCHIATRIST$300Your pay per hour: mid-market of today's advertised range
The differentiator
Legacy onboarding asks you to prove what registries already know. We don't.
The old chain made the psychiatrist the courier: download, scan, upload, repeat for every middleman. ClearPanel reverses the job: agents fetch from the registries and keep fetching, so your file stays current without you chasing it.
The legacy way: one real December email
- Nine separate PDF attachments in a single compliance email
- Instructions in capital letters: everything handwritten, completed within 48 hours
- Print it, handwrite it, scan it, re-upload it, then wait to be told what's missing
- Your pay framed above the agency, the contract holder that holds the statewide contract sets the rate card, and never shown to you
- Start the whole packet again at the next facility
The ClearPanel way
- 3 details + consent to start: name, DOB, CA license no.
- We fetch license, DEA, certification, training & screens
- You confirm a pre-filled record, correct anything wrong in place
- You add only contact, preferences, availability & payment
- One file follows you to every ClearPanel placement
What gets fetched, what you confirm, what you provide
Medical Board of California Auto-fetched
License status, issue & expiry, practice address, disciplinary & enforcement history as published by the Board.
License status, issue & expiry, practice address, disciplinary & enforcement history as published by the Board.
DEA registration & NPI Registry (NPPES) Auto-fetched
Registration status, schedules, NPI, taxonomy and practice locations on file.
Registration status, schedules, NPI, taxonomy and practice locations on file.
Board certification, education & training Auto-fetched Confirm
ABPN / ABMS certification, medical school and residency / fellowship history where published. You confirm it's yours and fix any gap, you don't re-upload diplomas.
ABPN / ABMS certification, medical school and residency / fellowship history where published. You confirm it's yours and fix any gap, you don't re-upload diplomas.
Exclusion & sanctions screening Auto-fetched
OIG LEIE, SAM.gov exclusions and NPDB continuous query enrollment (with your authorization). Re-screened automatically, not once and forgotten.
OIG LEIE, SAM.gov exclusions and NPDB continuous query enrollment (with your authorization). Re-screened automatically, not once and forgotten.
Malpractice & work history Auto-fetched where published Confirm
Published malpractice and Board actions pulled in; you confirm the timeline and explain anything a facility will ask about anyway, once, in your own words.
Published malpractice and Board actions pulled in; you confirm the timeline and explain anything a facility will ask about anyway, once, in your own words.
Only you know these You provide
Best contact details, settings you want (inpatient / tele / correctional / state hospital), geography, hours, earliest start, rate floor, payment details and an emergency contact. That's the only typing we ask for.
Best contact details, settings you want (inpatient / tele / correctional / state hospital), geography, hours, earliest start, rate floor, payment details and an emergency contact. That's the only typing we ask for.
Start here
How prison psychiatry staffing works today
STEP 1
Posts sit empty
More than half the psychiatrist posts at some California prisons are vacant, so the state pays premium rates for contract doctors.
STEP 2
One contract holder
One company holds the statewide staffing contract. It employs no doctors: it sets the rates and takes a fee on every hour.
STEP 3
Agencies underneath
Agencies recruit and employ you, and keep the difference between the state's rate and your pay, a figure you never see.
STEP 4
ClearPanel
One credible firm in that agency layer: the full economics printed on the invoice, and your credential file fetched from the registries.
Here is the same hour of work, with every layer priced.
How this chain actually works: One company holds the statewide prison staffing contract and sets the rate card. Firms like ours do not hold it: we staff underneath it, recruiting and employing the psychiatrist as a subcontractor agency in its network. ClearPanel works in that supplier layer, at the market's rates and margins, with the full economics printed.
Your year, in one number.
No rate card archaeology, no agency math to reverse-engineer. Set your rate and your hours: this is what the year pays, and on the right is every layer of the hour it comes from.
Your take-home pay, gross, at these settings
$624,000
a year · $52,000 a month
$300/hr × 40 hrs/week × 52 weeks
$300/hr is today's mid-market: live October 2026 postings for California correctional psychiatry run $240 to $350/hr. The implied all-in rate the state pays moves with your rate: your pay plus $105 of layers, printed in full on the right.
Read this part carefully: the figure above is gross contractor pay, before taxes, in a scenario, not a live offer. As a 1099 contractor there is no employer pension and no benefits package attached: you fund your own retirement and health cover out of this number. The comparison below is built with that stated, not hidden. Your confirmed offer shows the exact facility rate before you sign anything.
Your hour, printed
One stack, ours. The estimated all-in rate the state pays for your hour is $405. Here is where every dollar of it goes.
Check: $15 + $75 + $15 + $300 = $405 (est.), the implied 2026 all-in rate.
Reference: audited registry rate, last published benchmark (Auditor 2024-114, FY2024-25)$359/hr
The last audited figure. Advertised pay has risen since that audit, which is why the stack above is built on today's postings. For scale, the same report puts the loaded cost of a state-employed psychiatrist at $246/hr.
The same year, employed
The honest comparison is not another agency; it is a salary. Employed posts pay less cash and carry what contract work does not: a pension, benefits, and an inbox that follows you home. Contract work pays the number above and ends when your shift does. Every column is printed; the trade is yours to make.
Contract work, through ClearPanel (scenario)
$624,000
Gross per year at your settings above. 1099 contractor: no employer pension, no benefits package; you fund your own. No on-call on these contracts. When the shift ends, the work ends.
State employment: CCHCS psychiatrist
$373,632
Per year, board certified, telehealth and HQ posts; up to $485,721 for onsite inpatient posts. W-2 salary with pension and state benefits; 4/10 shifts. Source: CCHCS careers page, October 2026.
Employed: Kaiser Permanente (TPMG)
$359k to $370k
Full-time salary range, adult psychiatry, Northern California, plus incentives up to $24,200. W-2 with pension and full benefits; your own patient panel, and the inbox that comes with it. Source: current TPMG posting, accessed October 2026.
Community locum work, via agencies
$185 to $230
Per hour, advertised, October 2026 postings: the going range outside the correctional system. Shorter assignments, terms set by each agency, and the spread is not printed.
The boundaries are part of the pay
What this work does not ask of you, stated as plainly as the rate.
No on-call
These contracts carry no call. Nights and weekends are yours, unless you choose to book them.
Your patients cannot call you
All contact happens inside the facility, on its systems, during your shift. Nobody has your number, and when the shift ends, the work ends.
No insurance paperwork
No prior authorizations, no billing, no claims to chase. The state is the payer, and the paperwork is ours.
A set schedule
Fixed shifts, including 4x10 patterns in this system. Your week is knowable before it starts.
No practice overhead
No office, no staff, no rent, no collections. You arrive, you practice, you leave.
These describe the contract roles ClearPanel staffs in the California correctional system. Your confirmed offer states the terms for your specific assignment before you sign anything.
Sources: every figure above traces to one of these, nothing else is used: California State Auditor Report 2024-114: $359/hr registry psychiatrist effective cost to the state (Salinas Valley State Prison, FY2024-25), the last published audited benchmark, and $246/hr loaded cost for a state-employed psychiatrist. Pay, $240 to $350/hr with a $300 default: current advertised correctional psychiatry postings, live, October 2026 (Stockton $335, Corcoran $290, Sacramento and Wasco $300, Vacaville up to $350). Historical context only: the documented September 2020 telepsychiatry rate approved through this chain was $230/hr. The contract manager's fee of about $15/hr is a benchmark estimate, the midpoint of the published 2.5 to 6 percent vendor-neutral MSP range applied to the audited hour; the manager's actual fee is confidential. ClearPanel's figures are a scenario, not a live offer: real costs are $15/hr (est.), our agency fee is fixed and disclosed at $75/hr, and the implied 2026 all-in rate is your pay plus $105: $405 at the $300 default. Check the arithmetic: $15 + $75 + $15 + $300 = $405. State employment: CCHCS careers page, October 2026 ($373,632 per year, board certified, telehealth and HQ; up to $485,721 onsite inpatient). Kaiser Permanente: current TPMG adult psychiatry posting, Northern California (full-time salary range $358,919 to $370,020, additional incentives up to $24,200), accessed October 2026. Community locum work: $185 to $230/hr advertised, October 2026 postings.
Representative roles psychiatrists join the panel for
Current advertised pay for California correctional psychiatry runs $240–$350/hr (live postings, October 2026), the range shown on each role below, not a per-role promise. Your exact rate is the one printed on a confirmed offer. Join once and you're considered for roles like these as they open, no new packet per role.
On-site · Central Valley
Inpatient psychiatry, Stockton / Vacaville corridor
On-site inpatient units, weekday rounding, call shared across the panel.
$240–350 / hr advertised (Oct 2026 postings)
On-site · State hospital
State hospital, forensic & acute
Longer assignments, stable census, team-based care with full credentialing handled from your one file.
$240–350 / hr advertised (Oct 2026 postings)
Onboarding
One form. Five short steps. Nothing a registry can supply is asked twice.
Work through it below, this is the actual flow, in order. Fields are tagged so you can always see why you're being asked for something. Typed, not handwritten. Nothing to print, nothing to scan, and no 48-hour deadline, the attestations, authorizations and gate-clearance information that used to arrive as nine attachments are simply steps 1, 3 and 5 of this one flow.
Step 1 of 5: Who you are, and permission to fetch
Three details are enough to find you in the registries. Everything else on this step is the consent that lets us lawfully pull and verify your record.
You provide As it appears on your license.
Used only to disambiguate your registry records. Never shown to facilities.
Auto-fetched key This one number unlocks your Board record.
That's it for this step. We don't even ask for your email yet; contact details come later, in the one step that's actually yours to fill in.
This is what the fetch looks like. Each source is checked at the primary source, not copied from your last agency's file.
Every line below carries its source. If a line is wrong, edit it; don't upload a document to prove it. We re-check your edit at the source.
Preview record: this walkthrough shows a sample fetched record so you can see exactly how confirmation works. In live operation, each line here is the actual return from that registry for your license number, nothing is pre-filled from a template.
The only section that's genuinely typing, because no registry knows where you want to work, when, or how to pay you.
For your secure panel link, not a recruiter's mailing list.
We never send you a role below this. And you see the bill rate on every offer.
Payment bank details are collected securely after you accept a role, not on this form.
Read, sign once, done. These are the same attestations every facility requires, collected once here, reused from your file, not re-signed per placement.
What you're signing
- Credentialing authorization & release (ongoing verification, including NPDB continuous query)
- Attestation: licensure, exclusions, malpractice and work-history answers as confirmed in Step 3
- Panel agreement: agency margin disclosed in full, no non-compete on your own job search, leave the panel at any time
- Code of conduct & confidentiality for facility placements
How this flow works by design: with your authorization, verification is fetched from primary sources and kept current automatically, expiring licenses and screenings are re-checked without you re-uploading anything. This page demonstrates that experience end-to-end; your summary download is generated on your device from what you entered and confirmed here.
For facilities & public systems
You don't get a stack of unverified PDFs either. You get one confirmed, source-verified file, with the fetch trail attached and the agency margin disclosed in full, instead of a spread you have to reverse-engineer.
- Faster fill: panel members are pre-verified, not recruited from cold
- Audit-ready: every field names its primary source and fetch date
- Staying current: continuous screening, not a file that ages in a drawer
What the facility receivesPREVIEW · ILLUSTRATION
MBLicenseSource and fetch date attachedVerified
ABPNCertificationSource and fetch date attachedVerified
OIGExclusionsRe-screened continuouslyVerified
NPDBMalpracticeReviewed by the clinician firstConfirmed
FEEAgency margin disclosedPrinted on the same line as the bill rateDisclosed
1 auditable record · fetch trail attached
Questions psychiatrists ask first
Is there a 48-hour deadline, like the old packets?
No. The 48-hour handwritten-packet deadline was a legacy agency's invention, not a state requirement; the state needs a complete, verified file, not a fast-scanned one. Here there is no printer, no handwriting and no countdown: work through the five steps in one sitting (about 12 minutes), and if a registry source and your record disagree, we resolve that one item with you rather than bouncing a whole packet back.
Why do you only need three details to start?
Because your name, DOB and license number are the keys every registry already uses. With your consent, they unlock your Board record, DEA, NPI, certification and screens. Asking you to type or upload the rest would be asking you to copy a database by hand.
What if something fetched about me is wrong?
Correct it in Step 3, in place. Your correction is re-verified at the primary source and becomes your confirmed record. Registries do contain errors: that's exactly why the model is “fetch and confirm,” not “fetch and assume.”
Do I have to upload my diploma, CV or certificates?
No. Education, training and certification are fetched where published and confirmed by you. If a specific facility requires a document no registry holds, we ask for that single document, by name, with the reason, never a generic packet.
How does the agency margin work?
We charge the same agency margin the market charges, and we print it in full: every offer shows the facility bill rate, the margin, your pay and the itemized costs (malpractice, credentialing, payroll) on one line. If the numbers change, you see it before you accept, not on a pay stub after.
Am I locked in?
No. Joining the panel is not exclusivity. Work elsewhere, search on your own, or leave the panel at any time. Your confirmed file summary is yours to download and keep.
Who sees my date of birth and screening results?
Your DOB is used for registry matching and is never shown to facilities. Screening results go to a facility only as part of your confirmed credential file for a role you've accepted, and only after you've reviewed them.