Entity Reference: California Forensic Medical Group, Inc., the Wellpath Entities, Debtors and Non-Debtors, Counties, Sheriffs, Professional Corporations and Roles

How to use this reference#

Read an entry the way the series reads every record that names an organization (Roadmap 004). First, take the exact legal name, including its suffix — "Inc.", "LLC", "P.C." — because a different suffix often means a different entity. Second, note the date of the record, because names, contracts and corporate relationships change. Third, note the role the record gives the organization: debtor, employer named in an agency case, contracting party, party describing another party, or name used by the debtors. Fourth, check the name against the debtor list in the public notice of the Chapter 11 cases (AR-096-E01; AR-B16). Fifth, record the relationship using only the label the record supports.

Each entry below has the same parts:

• Legal name as it appears in public records. Spelled as the cited record spells it.
• Type. Corporation, limited liability company, professional corporation, trust, public entity or role class, as the record or the governing statute describes it.
• Bankruptcy status. Debtor (with case number) or not shown as a debtor, as the public notice shows it.
• What the Roadmaps say it is. The registered facts, each with its identifier.
• What the Roadmaps say it is not. The limits the Roadmaps place on those facts.
• Roadmaps that discuss it.

Register identifiers beginning "AR-B" come from the Release 1 register; the others come from the Release 2 register. The section "Register entries used on this page" lists each one with its verification status in public wording. A reader who wants to check an entry can open the cited source and compare it with the sentence that cites it (Roadmap 148 explains how).

The relationship labels the series uses in place of ownership diagrams, taken from Roadmap 004, are these:

No ownership diagram appears on this page or in Roadmap 004, because no primary record read for the series establishes ownership among these entities.

The Wellpath Chapter 11 cases in brief#

The entries below depend on a small set of public court records. They are summarized here once so that the entries can be short.

The Wellpath Chapter 11 cases are jointly administered under the lead case In re Wellpath Holdings, Inc., No. 24-90533 (ARP), in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division (AR-B01). The petitions were filed on November 11, 2024 (AR-B02; AR-096-E01). The court-approved notice of the cases lists thirty-nine debtors, each with its own case number (AR-B16; AR-096-E01). Joint administration is procedural; each debtor remains a separate legal entity with its own case (Roadmap 004).

The court set a general bar date for proofs of claim of April 7, 2025, and a governmental bar date of May 12, 2025; incarcerated persons could file against the lead debtor identifying their facility; and a claim filed without identifying a debtor was deemed filed only against Wellpath LLC (AR-B17; AR-090-E03). Those dates have passed and are described here as history.

The court confirmed the First Amended Joint Chapter 11 Plan on May 1, 2025, and the plan took effect on May 9, 2025 (AR-090-E05; AR-091-E01). Federal district courts applying the plan have described it as discharging claims against the debtors for events before November 11, 2024, as enjoining actions on discharged claims, and as routing recovery on those claims through a liquidating trust (AR-090-C02; AR-090-C03). The plan's third-party release, the opt-out, and the definitions of "Released Parties" and "Related Parties" are quoted in the court-approved notice of the confirmation hearing (AR-090-E04) and described by courts (AR-090-C02; AR-090-C03). Post-effective-date matters are docketed under In re Wellpath SF HoldCo, LLC, No. 24-90566 (AR-090-C01; AR-090-E06).

Under 11 U.S.C. § 524(e), the debtor's discharge ordinarily does not itself alter another entity's liability on that debt, subject to § 524(a)(3). The U.S. House Office of the Law Revision Counsel text was separately checked through Public Law 119-120 (Oct. 7, 2026); this improves the grade of this statutory proposition only. It does not decide ownership of a cause of action, claims transferred to or settled by an estate, the validity or scope of an effective plan injunction, an insurance-access procedure, or consent to a nondebtor release. Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P., 603 U.S. 204 (2024), bars the Chapter 11 nonconsensual third-party discharge at issue there, but expressly leaves questions about consent and substantially consummated plans unresolved. Apply the actual Wellpath confirmation order and release/settlement documents before saying a claim survives or is barred (Roadmaps 090–091).

Entities listed as debtors#

Wellpath Holdings, Inc.

Legal name and type. Wellpath Holdings, Inc., a corporation (AR-B16; AR-096-E01).

Bankruptcy status. Debtor; lead case No. 24-90533 (ARP), under which the cases are jointly administered (AR-B01; AR-B16).

What the Roadmaps say it is. The lead debtor. Under the bar-date notice, incarcerated persons could file proofs of claim against the lead debtor while identifying the facility in which they received care (AR-B17; AR-090-E03). A federal district court has described the plan as discharging claims against "Wellpath Holdings and affiliated debtors" for incidents before November 11, 2024 (AR-090-C02).

What the Roadmaps say it is not. Being the lead debtor does not make it the employer of any worker, the provider of any care or the counterparty to any county contract; those are questions for the employment records and the contract (Roadmaps 003, 094). Joint administration under its case number does not merge the other debtors into it (Roadmap 004).

Roadmaps that discuss it. 003, 004, 090, 091, 096.1, 137.

Wellpath CFMG, Inc.

Legal name and type. Wellpath CFMG, Inc., a corporation, with a Nashville address in the public notice (AR-B12).

Bankruptcy status. Debtor; Case No. 24-90556 (ARP), jointly administered under No. 24-90533 (AR-B12; AR-B16; AR-096-E01).

What the Roadmaps say it is. A Chapter 11 debtor. As a debtor, it is within the class of entities whose pre-petition claims federal courts describe as discharged under the plan, with recovery through the liquidating trust's procedures (AR-090-C02; Roadmap 090).

What the Roadmaps say it is not. It is not California Forensic Medical Group, Inc. Only Wellpath CFMG, Inc. appears on the debtor list (AR-B12; AR-B071). Nothing in the records read for the series states the role of Wellpath CFMG, Inc. toward California Forensic Medical Group, Inc., and the Roadmaps do not infer one (Roadmap 004). Its debtor status does not establish that it employed any clinician, held any county contract or made any decision on any date; those facts come from wage statements, hiring notices, contracts and decision records (Roadmaps 003, 005, 094).

Roadmaps that discuss it. 001.1, 002.1, 003, 004, 090, 091, 094, 096.1, 137.

Wellpath LLC

Legal name and type. Wellpath LLC, a limited liability company (AR-B16; AR-096-E01).

Bankruptcy status. Debtor; Case No. 24-90563 (AR-B16).

What the Roadmaps say it is. A debtor. Under the bar-date notice, a proof of claim filed without identifying a debtor was deemed filed only against Wellpath LLC (AR-B17). A federal district court in Louisiana, in an order describing a 2026 bankruptcy-court decision, dismissed an entity it called "Wellpath, LLC" from a jail case, subject to reconsideration if the plaintiff obtained a bankruptcy-court order permitting suit for insurance purposes (AR-091-C04; Documented report as to the bankruptcy-court decision, which was not opened directly).

What the Roadmaps say it is not. A brand on a badge or an e-mail domain reading "Wellpath" is not evidence that Wellpath LLC, rather than another entity, employed a person or acted on a given date (Roadmaps 003, 094).

Roadmaps that discuss it. 090, 091, 094, 137.

Wellpath SF Holdco, LLC

Legal name and type. Wellpath SF Holdco, LLC, a limited liability company (AR-B16; AR-096-E01). Some court filings print the name as "Wellpath SF HoldCo, LLC" (AR-090-C01).

Bankruptcy status. Debtor; Case No. 24-90566 (AR-B16).

What the Roadmaps say it is. The case under whose caption post-effective-date matters have been docketed, including the liquidating trust's 2025 objection and the bankruptcy court's November 12, 2025 memorandum opinion (AR-090-E06; AR-090-C01).

What the Roadmaps say it is not. The caption is a docketing fact. It does not show that this entity operated any facility or employed any person.

Roadmaps that discuss it. 090, 091, 137.

Physicians Network Association, Inc.

Legal name and type. Physicians Network Association, Inc., a corporation (AR-B16; AR-096-E01).

Bankruptcy status. Debtor; Case No. 24-90532 (AR-B16).

What the Roadmaps say it is. One of the thirty-nine listed debtors.

What the Roadmaps say it is not. The Roadmaps do not describe its business or its relationship to any professional corporation, clinician or county. Its name does not show that it is one of the "Professional Corporations" the debtors described, and the Roadmaps do not treat it as one.

Roadmaps that discuss it. None by name; it appears in the register entry for the debtor list (AR-B16) on which Roadmaps 003, 004 and 090 rely.

The other listed debtors

What the record shows. The notice lists thirty-nine debtors in all, each with its own case number (AR-B16; AR-096-E01). Roadmap 003 notes that thirty-five of the thirty-nine list the same Nashville address (AR-B16), and that a shared address does not establish ownership or liability.

How to use it. Any organization name found on a California record should be compared, letter for letter, with the roster in the identified notice, preserving suffixes and any listed former names. Absence means only that the exact name is absent from that particular jointly administered roster; it does not prove absence of a later petition, a different debtor name, a predecessor/successor, or a bankruptcy order affecting some claim. Presence establishes the listed debtor identity and case number, not who employed a person or who owes a particular obligation (Roadmaps 003, 004, 090; Worksheet 101).

Names the debtors used, and names that are not on the debtor list#

CFMG Holdings Corp.

Legal name as it appears. "CFMG Holdings Corp." (AR-B14).

Type and status. A name, not a listed debtor. It appears in the notice only among the names the debtors collectively used in the eight years before filing (AR-B14; AR-B16).

What the Roadmaps say it is. A name used by the debtors collectively (AR-B14). The register records this entry with a caveat, and the series states it only in that form.

What the Roadmaps say it is not. The collective alternate-name notice, by itself, does not identify which particular debtor used the name or when (Roadmap 004). Do not turn a former-name listing into either a newly separate bankruptcy debtor or an unverified ownership relationship. A secondary 24-90556 docket index describes Wellpath CFMG, Inc. as formerly "CFMG Holdings Corp." This is an investigative lead only until the official 24-90556 petition / statement of financial affairs is retrieved and the name history authenticated. Neither name establishes that California Forensic Medical Group, Inc. filed Chapter 11 (Roadmap 137).

Roadmaps that discuss it. 004, 137.

Correct Care Solutions, LLC and Correctional Medical Group Companies, Inc.

Names as they appear. "Correct Care Solutions, LLC" and "Correctional Medical Group Companies, Inc." appear in the notice among the names the debtors used in the last eight years (Roadmap 004, citing the notice; AR-B16; AR-096-E01). Neither appears in the list of thirty-nine jointly administered debtors.

What the Roadmaps say they are not. As with every former or alternate name, the notice does not say which debtor used either name or when, and a lawsuit caption using a similar name does not establish which entity is meant (Roadmap 004).

Roadmaps that discuss them. 004.

California Forensic Medical Group, Inc.

Legal name as it appears. "California Forensic Medical Group, Inc." A public National Labor Relations Board case page prints the employer's name as "California Forensic Medical Group, Inc. (Wellpath)" (AR-091-A01).

Bankruptcy status. Not shown as a debtor. It does not appear among the thirty-nine entities listed as jointly administered debtors in the notice of the Chapter 11 cases (AR-B071), and the name "California Forensic Medical Group" does not appear in the notice (AR-096-E01). The register limits this statement to the notice: absence from the list does not by itself establish that no separate case exists anywhere (AR-B071).

What the Roadmaps say it is. The NLRB case page for 32-RC-349541 is captioned "California Forensic Medical Group, Inc. (Wellpath)," for a 2024–25 Alameda County RC representation election concerning proposed addition of dentists and RN supervisors to an existing bargaining unit at Glenn Dyer Detention Facility / Santa Rita Jail; the agency dates are petition August 30, 2024, tally November 20, 2024, and certification March 6, 2025 (AR-091-A01). Important source nuance: that page's participants field also labels its employer contact "Wellpath Corporate Headquarters"; a caption, service/contact label and certified unit must not be silently reconciled into a different legal employer. A separate official NLRB case page, 32-RC-337837, captions "California Forensic Medical Group, Inc." for a Modesto-area substance-use-disorder-counselor unit, petition March 13, 2024, certification May 2, 2024 (new observation NLRB-146-01, not yet part of inherited release register). The agency's 2026 Merced case 32-RC-379690, filed January 23, 2026 and certified March 13, 2026, names California Forensic Medical Group, Inc. in the agency's official index (new observation NLRB-146-02; case-page full-body fetch was unsuccessful, but official election-results index was accessible). These are employment identification in specific representation proceedings, not global employer, alter-ego, wage-reporting, EEOC/FEHA joint-employer, debtor, or contract findings.

What the Roadmaps say it is not. This corporate name is not interchangeable with the separately named debtor Wellpath CFMG, Inc. (AR-B12; AR-B071; Roadmaps 003, 004, 137). An NLRB representation-case label or certification does not adjudicate all potentially responsible legal employers for ADA/FEHA or individual payroll/EDD reports, bankruptcy release status, professional-corporation ownership, or liability. Whether this company belongs to the plan-defined "Professional Corporations" carveout has not been established by the materials examined (Roadmap 090; AR-090-E01; AR-090-E04). A county contract or agency caption alone cannot identify a decision-maker or resolve a disputed physician's employer on a particular date; obtain agreements, wage statements, EDD records, FEHA submissions and decision documents, and give competing employer theories their strongest evidentiary reading (Roadmap 003).

Roadmaps that discuss it. 001.1, 002.1, 003, 004, 090, 091, 094, 096.1, 101, 137.

Classes the plan documents define or describe#

Professional corporations and their physician-owners

Type. Professional corporations organized for the practice of medicine. California law provides that corporations and other artificial legal entities have no professional rights, privileges or powers (Bus. & Prof. Code § 2400; AR-030-S01), and that, with stated exceptions, each shareholder, director and officer of a medical corporation must be a licensed person (Bus. & Prof. Code § 2408; AR-030-S03).

Bankruptcy status. Non-debtors, as the debtors themselves described them (AR-090-E02; AR-B15).

What the Roadmaps say they are. In a first-day motion, the debtors described "Professional Corporations" as entities that provide medical services to patients and are owned exclusively by licensed physicians, under "PC Management Services Agreements" by which debtor entities provided management and other services; the motion stated that the debtors managed eighteen professional corporations as of the petition date and asked the court to let the debtors continue honoring obligations to them and to extend stay protections to them (Dkt. 15; AR-090-E01). A companion motion described the professional corporations and their physicians ("PC Physicians") as non-debtors named in lawsuits alongside the debtors, stated that the debtors indemnify them under the management services agreements, and quoted an indemnity clause from what it called the "CFMG Management Services Agreement" (Dkt. 17; AR-090-E02; AR-B15). The plan's definition of "Related Party," as quoted in the court-approved confirmation-hearing notice, ends with the proviso that "the Professional Corporations and their respective owners and employees shall not be deemed Related Parties" (AR-090-E04).

What the Roadmaps infer, labelled as inference. On the provisional quoted wording, the professional corporations and their respective owners/employees are expressly excluded from Related Parties status; that supports a narrower proposition that they are not released solely by operation of that defined relationship. It does not rule out a separately identified Released Party, independent settlement, derivative-estate-claim transfer, stay order, insurance procedure or another operative confirmed-plan provision. Section 524(e) protects against automatic propagation of the debtor's own discharge, not every distinct release or estate action. Purdue Pharma does not decide whether a specific 2025 Wellpath confirmation-order deemed-consent mechanism is valid or may now be challenged after consummation. Roadmap 090's ultimate claim-survival position remains an analytical, fact- and order-dependent hypothesis requiring bankruptcy counsel and the final signed instruments.

What the Roadmaps say they are not. The motions read for the series do not list the eighteen professional corporations by name, do not name California Forensic Medical Group, Inc., and do not establish who the parties to the "CFMG Management Services Agreement" are (Roadmap 090; AR-090-E01; AR-090-E02). Whether and on what terms the court granted the requested extension of stay protections to them is not established in the documents read (Roadmaps 090, 091). A management services agreement shows the services contracted for; it does not by itself show that every power it grants was exercised (Roadmap 004). The debtors' description of indemnity is a party representation, not a finding about who indemnifies whom (AR-B15).

Roadmaps that discuss them. 004, 030, 090, 091, 094, 101, 137.

Management services entities

What the Roadmaps say they are. The debtors described themselves as providing professional corporations with management and other services — provider enrollment, billing, collections, software, supply purchasing, hiring and day-to-day administration — under management services agreements (AR-090-E01; Roadmaps 090, 094). Roadmap 004 explains that a physician-owned professional corporation employing or contracting with clinicians, and a separate company supplying non-clinical services under a services agreement, is a structure that is lawful in principle under California's corporate-practice rules (AR-030-S01; AR-030-S03).

What the Roadmaps say they are not. The company that recruits or onboards a clinician under such an arrangement may not be the company that employs the clinician (Roadmap 094). A services agreement between a professional corporation and a management company does not by itself show that the company controlled clinical judgment (Roadmap 004). Which entity employed a particular clinician on a particular date is read from the hiring notice, wage statements and employment agreement (Lab. Code § 2810.5; AR-094-S01; Roadmaps 094, 137).

Roadmaps that discuss them. 004, 030, 090, 094, 137.

Released Parties and Related Parties

What the record shows. As quoted in the court-approved confirmation-hearing notice, "Released Parties" include each debtor, the post-restructuring and reorganized entities, specified lenders and agents, holders of interests, and the "Related Parties" of each, but exclude anyone who opted out of or objected to the releases; "Releasing Parties" include claim holders who did not opt out; and incarcerated claimants could opt out by ballot or written communication to the debtors, the claims agent or the court within sixty days after the confirmation date (AR-090-E04). The confirmation order deems holders who did not opt out within the stated period to consent to the third-party release (AR-091-E01). The effective-date notice and federal courts applying the plan state that incarcerated claimants had until July 30, 2025 (AR-090-E05; AR-090-C02; AR-090-C03). Federal district courts describe the release as covering current and former employees, directors and officers of the debtors named as defendants, and as excepting willful misconduct, gross negligence and actual fraud (AR-090-C03; AR-090-C02).

What the Roadmaps say these classes are not. "Related Party" is a plan-defined term, not shorthand for shared ownership, and the quoted proposed-plan notice contains a professional-corporation carveout (AR-090-E04). The liquidating trust's view of opt-out consequences is a party position, not the complete law: opting out of a nondebtor release would not itself undo discharge of the debtor, but whether nonresponse constituted enforceable consent, whether an affected claimant received constitutionally adequate notice, and whether an effective and substantially consummated plan can be disturbed require specific orders and controlling post-Purdue authority. A mere lack of an opt-out record should not be presented as proved consent. Match each claimant, entity, claim type, notice/ballot record and confirmation-order version individually (Roadmaps 090–091).

Roadmaps that discuss them. 090, 091, 137.

H.I.G. Capital, LLC

Legal name and type. H.I.G. Capital, LLC, a limited liability company, as named in the debtors' filing (AR-B15) and in the bankruptcy court's opinion (AR-090-C01).

Bankruptcy status. Not a listed debtor (AR-B16). A released party under a court-approved settlement (AR-090-C01).

What the Roadmaps say it is. The debtors described H.I.G. Capital, LLC as "the Debtors' consultant and private equity sponsor" (Dkt. 17; AR-B15). The bankruptcy court approved a settlement with it on May 1, 2025, releasing the estate's claims against it; in a memorandum opinion dated November 12, 2025, the court held that general, derivative claims against it — claims that existed when the case began, that the debtor could have asserted, and that depend on the relationship between the defendant and the debtor on facts available to any creditor — were estate property released under that settlement, and it enjoined opt-out plaintiffs from pursuing such claims (AR-090-C01).

What the Roadmaps say it is not. The debtors' description is a party representation, not a finding about ownership (AR-B15). The opinion concerned claims against this entity; it made no holding about counties, clinicians or professional corporations (Roadmap 090).

Roadmaps that discuss it. 004, 090, 091, 137.

The Wellpath Liquidating Trust

Type. A trust created under the confirmed plan to administer and pay claims (Roadmap 090).

Bankruptcy status. Not a debtor; the successor for payment of general unsecured claims against the debtors (Roadmap 090).

What the Roadmaps say it is. A federal district court has described recovery on discharged personal-injury and wrongful-death claims as running through the trust, by nonbinding alternative dispute resolution or by litigating against the trust as a nominal defendant, limited to a pro rata distribution (AR-090-C02). In a 2025 filing, the trust took the position that trust distributions are the sole source of recovery against the debtors for such claims (Dkt. 3404; AR-090-E06 — a party position). The confirmation order provides that the trust's causes of action are not released (AR-091-E01). District courts in 2026 described a bankruptcy-court decision permitting claims against the trust as nominal defendant and limiting suit against debtors to cases where inclusion is necessary to seek or maintain insurance coverage, under a procedure that includes a request for a bankruptcy-court order (AR-091-C04; AR-091-C05; Documented report — the bankruptcy-court decision itself was not opened).

What the Roadmaps say it is not. The trust's procedures, as described by a party, are not a court finding. Nothing here states what the trust will pay on any claim (Roadmap 090).

Roadmaps that discuss it. 090, 091, 137.

Public entities and offices#

Counties

Type. Public entities. Under the Government Claims Act, "public entity" includes a county (Gov. Code § 811.2; AR-078-S03), and for the claim chapters a "local public entity" includes a county but not the State (Gov. Code § 900.4; AR-078-S14).

Bankruptcy status. Counties are not among the named 39 jointly administered bankruptcy debtors in the cited historical notice (AR-096-E01). No county is specifically named in the cited proposed-plan Released Parties excerpt (AR-090-E04); absence of its name alone does not negate a class-based definition or another order. Any county-specific release/indemnity conclusion requires the final plan, county contracts and relevant orders, not this roster.

What the Roadmaps say they are. Public entities that contract for correctional health care (Roadmap 004). A county's own liability is not affected by a debtor's discharge (11 U.S.C. § 524(e); AR-096-F02; Roadmap 090). Whether a county may look to a debtor for contractual indemnity or defense depends on whether its contract was assumed, assigned or rejected in the bankruptcy and on the plan's treatment of related claims, a question Roadmap 090 grades as an analytical inference dependent on facts. County contracts and amendments are public records obtainable by public-records request (Roadmaps 003, 087).

What the Roadmaps say they are not. Contracting for health care does not, by itself, establish a county's liability for a contractor's acts (Roadmaps 003, 004). A private corporation that contracts with a county to deliver jail medical care is not itself a public entity under the Government Claims Act; Roadmap 078 states that conclusion as an analytical inference from the statutory text.

Roadmaps that discuss them. 003, 004, 078, 086, 087, 090, 091, 094, 101.

Sheriffs and sheriff's departments

Type. Offices of county government. Roadmap 078 states that a sheriff's department is ordinarily treated as part of the county, grading that statement as an analytical inference.

Bankruptcy status. Not debtors; not on the Released Parties list as quoted (AR-090-E04; Roadmap 090).

What the Roadmaps say they are. The custody side of a county jail. A public employee who knows or has reason to know that a prisoner needs immediate medical care and fails to take reasonable action to summon it is a subject of Gov. Code § 845.6 (AR-051-S01; Roadmaps 066, 078). Deputies are public employees (Gov. Code §§ 810.2, 811.4; AR-078-S02; AR-077-S09; Roadmap 078).

What the Roadmaps say they are not. The custody function is distinct from the medical function; the Roadmaps keep the duty to summon care separate from the professional-negligence claim (Roadmap 066). Worksheet 101 records the sheriff and the facility separately from the county and from every contractor.

Roadmaps that discuss them. 066, 078, 090, 101.

County employees and contractor staff in the same facility

What the Roadmaps say. In a county jail, some health-care workers may be county employees while others work for a contractor or its affiliates (Roadmap 094). For the Government Claims Act, "employee" does not include an independent contractor (Gov. Code § 810.2; AR-078-S02), and a "public employee" means an employee of a public entity (Gov. Code § 811.4; AR-077-S09). Roadmap 078 reads those definitions to mean that a physician who contracts with a county in an individual capacity is not a county "employee" (Settled as to the text; fact-dependent as to any individual).

What the Roadmaps say this is not. Being a state actor for 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is a different question from being a public employee under the Act (Roadmap 078). Which category a particular worker fell into is read from that worker's records (Roadmap 094).

Roadmaps that discuss it. 066, 078, 094, 101.

Roles described by function#

Treating clinicians, nurses and supervisors

What the Roadmaps say. A physician under contract to provide medical care to people in state custody acts under color of state law for § 1983 purposes (AR-0961-C07; Roadmaps 003, 046). Under § 1983, each defendant answers only for his or her own conduct (Roadmaps 003, 045). On the plan text as quoted, owners and employees of the professional corporations are not "Related Parties" (AR-090-E04); federal courts describe the third-party release as reaching the debtors' employees, directors and officers subject to its stated exceptions and to the claimant's opt-out (AR-090-C03; AR-090-C02).

What the Roadmaps say this is not. A title, a place on an organizational chart or a copy line on an e-mail is not personal involvement (Roadmap 003). Who employed a clinician is a documentary question; a Wellpath-branded clinic does not make every clinician in it a debtor employee (Roadmap 091). The series names no individual and states nothing about any individual's conduct.

Roadmaps that discuss them. 003, 045, 066, 090, 091, 101.

Staffing companies, labor contractors and payroll affiliates

What the Roadmaps say. California Labor Code § 2810.3 imposes specified shared civil responsibility on a qualifying client employer for a labor contractor's wage-payment failures and workers' compensation coverage, subject to statutory definitions, exclusions, agreements and factual proof. Subdivision (d) separately requires the worker or representative to provide the client employer at least 30 days' advance notice before filing a civil action under this section; it is not an automatic liability presumption or a universal deadline for every employment claim. The accessible statutory reproduction is 2025 text, not authenticated as official 2026 California law (AR-094-S02). Separately, unemployment-insurance employer classification under § 606.5 involves its own criteria (AR-094-S03). A payroll or benefits affiliate is therefore neither automatically a legal employer nor automatically insulated from other joint-employment tests (Roadmap 094).

What the Roadmaps say this is not. A paying entity is not automatically the employer for every statute; each statute has its own test (Roadmap 094).

Roadmaps that discuss them. 094, 101, 137.

Insurers

What the Roadmaps say. Whether a claimant may keep a discharged debtor in a lawsuit as a nominal defendant to reach insurance has been contested in the Wellpath cases. Roadmap 091 explains a general Fifth Circuit rule that the discharge injunction does not prevent establishing an insurer's liability by proceeding against a discharged debtor nominally (AR-091-C03), and Roadmaps 090, 091 and 137 report the 2026 descriptions of the bankruptcy court's procedure (AR-091-C04; AR-091-C05) and of a Colorado district court's August 2026 hearing (AR-090-R01; Documented report from secondary reporting). The Roadmaps grade the nominal-defendant question Unsettled.

What the Roadmaps say this is not. Evidence about insurance in one case is evidence in that case, not a finding about any other (Roadmap 137).

Roadmaps that discuss them. 090, 091, 137.

Entity status at a glance#

The table compresses the entries above and carries all of their limits. No row states that any organization employed anyone, provided any care or is liable for anything.

What the public record does not establish#

The Roadmaps list, as open items, the questions the registered records leave unanswered. They are stated here so that no reader mistakes silence for an answer.

1. Which entities are the plan's "Professional Corporations." The debtors' motions refer to eighteen managed professional corporations without naming them in the text read (AR-090-E01). Whether California Forensic Medical Group, Inc. is one of them is not shown (Roadmap 090).
2. Who the parties to the "CFMG Management Services Agreement" are. The debtors quoted the agreement's indemnity clause, but the text read does not establish its parties (AR-090-E02; Roadmap 090).
3. Whether stay protections were extended to non-debtors. The debtors asked for that relief at the start of the cases; its disposition is not established in the documents read (Roadmaps 090, 091).
4. The final confirmed-plan text. Several plan provisions are stated as quoted in the confirmation-hearing notice for the plan as proposed (AR-090-E04); the Roadmaps flag that the confirmed text should be compared (Roadmap 090).
5. The treatment of county contracts and indemnity obligations. Whether any county contract or management services agreement was assumed, assigned or rejected is not established in the documents read (Roadmap 090).
6. The relationship between any two named entities. No primary record read for the series establishes ownership among Wellpath CFMG, Inc., California Forensic Medical Group, Inc., CFMG Holdings Corp. or any other entity named here (Roadmap 004).
7. The current state of the nominal-defendant question. Roadmaps 090, 091 and 137 record an unresolved route to insurance and bankruptcy-court procedure; obtain the actual latest bankruptcy orders rather than treating district-court summaries as definitive.
8. The Roadmap 146 identity across competing indexes. The attached source-A original titled Entity Reference has now been recovered and matches its historical SHA-256, but the October 11 source-B index uses a conflicting 125–150 numbering namespace. Neither this manuscript nor any cross-reference to it may be declared canonical until the complete competing source-B bodies are authenticated. This is a documented title/index conflict, not a demonstrated body collision.

Each item is a question for the documents, read by counsel. None is answered by branding.

Where entity records are found#

• The notice of the Chapter 11 cases and the court's filings. The debtor list, the bar-date notice, the confirmation-hearing notice and the effective-date notice are posted without charge on the court-appointed claims agent's website (AR-096-E01; AR-090-E03; AR-090-E04; AR-090-E05). The bankruptcy court's November 12, 2025 opinion appears in the federal government's official publication of court opinions (AR-090-C01).
• Secretary of State statements of information. California corporations file statements listing directors, the chief executive officer, secretary and chief financial officer, and the principal and mailing addresses (Corp. Code § 1502(a); AR-094-S04). A statement of information can link a name to an entity for a period; it does not establish ownership or control (Roadmap 004).
• National Labor Relations Board case pages. These identify the employer named in a representation or unfair-labor-practice case (AR-091-A01; Roadmap 094).
• County contracts and amendments. Obtainable by public-records request (Roadmaps 003, 087; Worksheet 123).
• A worker's own records. The hiring notice must state the employer's name, including "doing business as" names (Lab. Code § 2810.5; AR-094-S01), and the wage statement must name the legal entity that is the employer (Roadmaps 094, 137).

Worksheet 101 is the place to record each name exactly as printed, with the document that shows it, its role, and its debtor or non-debtor status per the public notice. It instructs: do not write "Wellpath" or "CFMG" in the name column; write the name on the document.

Register entries used on this page#

Each entry is listed with its public verification status. "Verified on official source" means the register records the source as opened on an official host. "Verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending" means the source was read on a reproduction host. Release 1 entries marked "read on official source; currency check pending" were read once on the official docket without a later currency check, and the entry marked "read with caveat" is stated only in the limited form the register allows.

• AR-B01 — In re Wellpath Holdings, Inc., No. 24-90533 (ARP) (Bankr. S.D. Tex.), jointly administered — read on official source; currency check pending.
• AR-B02 — Petition date, November 11, 2024 (Dkt. 5; notice) — read on official source; currency check pending.
• AR-B071 — Notice of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case (court-approved modified Official Form 309F1), item 1, list of jointly administered cases — read on official source; currency check pending.
• AR-B12 — Wellpath CFMG, Inc., Case No. 24-90556 (ARP) — read on official source; currency check pending.
• AR-B14 — "CFMG Holdings Corp." among names used by the debtors — read with caveat; currency check pending.
• AR-B15 — Debtors' emergency motion concerning non-debtor defendants, Dkt. 17 (Nov. 12, 2024) — read on official source; currency check pending.
• AR-B16 — Notice of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case, debtor list and names used — read on official source; currency check pending.
• AR-B17 — Bar Date Notice, Dkt. 776, implementing Bar Date Order, Dkt. 491 — read on official source with a stated limitation.
• AR-096-E01 — Notice of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case, No. 24-90533 — verified on official source.
• AR-090-E01 — Debtors' emergency motion concerning professional corporations, Dkt. 15 — verified on official source.
• AR-090-E02 — Debtors' emergency motion to enforce or extend the stay, Dkt. 17 — verified on official source.
• AR-090-E03 — Bar Date Notice, Dkt. 776 — verified on official source.
• AR-090-E04 — Notice of hearing to consider confirmation, Dkt. 1876 (plan as proposed) — verified on official source.
• AR-090-E05 — Notice of entry of confirmation order and occurrence of effective date, Dkt. 2680 — verified on official source.
• AR-090-E06 — Liquidating trust's objection, No. 24-90566, Dkt. 3404 (a party position) — verified on official source.
• AR-090-C01 — Memorandum opinion, In re Wellpath SF HoldCo, LLC, No. 24-90566, Doc. 956 (Bankr. S.D. Tex. Nov. 12, 2025) — verified on official source.
• AR-090-C02 — Order of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, No. 23-cv-972 (Aug. 28, 2025) — verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending.
• AR-090-C03 — Order of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, No. 22-cv-1172 (July 22, 2025) — verified on official source.
• AR-090-R01 — Colorado Politics report of an August 17, 2026 federal hearing (secondary reporting) — verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending.
• AR-091-E01 — Findings of fact, conclusions of law and order confirming the First Amended Joint Chapter 11 Plan (May 1, 2025) — verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending.
• AR-091-A01 — NLRB Case 32-RC-349541 — re-opened official NLRB case page on 2026-10-16; specific caption, unit and participant-label limitations documented.
• NLRB-146-01 (candidate-only; not an inherited release-register identifier) — NLRB Case 32-RC-337837, Modesto-area SUD counselor unit, filed 2024-03-13, certified 2024-05-02 — official NLRB case page inspected 2026-10-16; no broader legal-employer finding.
• NLRB-146-02 (candidate-only; not an inherited release-register identifier) — NLRB Case 32-RC-379690, Merced County unit, filed 2026-01-23, certified 2026-03-13 — official NLRB election-results index checked 2026-10-16; live complete case-page fetch timed out; no unverified participant or ownership claims.
• STAT-146-01 (candidate-only) — 11 U.S.C. § 524(e), OLRC current text through Public Law 119-120 (2026-10-07), official text checked 2026-10-16; other case-specific conclusions and subsequent-history review OPEN.
• CASE-146-01 (candidate-only) — Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P., 603 U.S. 204 (2024), official U.S. Reports proposition inherited from the prior Roadmap 145 official-opinion check; consent/substantial-consummation and plan-specific effects unresolved.
• AR-091-C03 — Fifth Circuit decision, 993 F.2d 51 (1993), on the discharge injunction and insurers — verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending.
• AR-091-C04 — Order of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, No. 23-1773 (June 9, 2026) — verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending.
• AR-091-C05 — Report and recommendation, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, No. 2:23-cv-1224 (Mar. 4, 2026) — verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending.
• AR-096-F02 — 11 U.S.C. § 524(a)(1)–(2), (e) — verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending.
• AR-030-S01 — Bus. & Prof. Code § 2400 — verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending.
• AR-030-S03 — Bus. & Prof. Code § 2408 — verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending.
• AR-0961-C07 — U.S. Supreme Court decision, 487 U.S. 42 (1988), on contract physicians and color of state law — verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending.
• AR-051-S01 — Gov. Code § 845.6 — verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending.
• AR-077-S09 — Gov. Code § 811.4 — verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending.
• AR-078-S02 — Gov. Code § 810.2 — verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending.
• AR-078-S03 — Gov. Code § 811.2 — verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending.
• AR-078-S14 — Gov. Code § 900.4 — verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending.
• AR-094-S01 — Lab. Code § 2810.5(a)–(c) — verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending.
• AR-094-S02 — Lab. Code § 2810.3 — verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending.
• AR-094-S03 — Unemp. Ins. Code § 606.5 — verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending.
• AR-094-S04 — Corp. Code § 1502(a) — verified on reproduction host — official re-check pending.

No independent human/counsel/clinical or contextual privacy/privilege verifier is recorded. The four new candidate-only legal/NLRB observations do not retroactively upgrade the remaining source-register rows or satisfy 2026 California code-currentness checks. Roadmap 148 explains the inherited grades; Roadmaps 144 and 145 provide case/statute libraries, subject themselves to the 125–150 competing-index hold.

Related roadmaps#

001.1, 002.1, 003, 004, 005, 030, 045, 046, 066, 078, 086, 087, 090, 091, 094, 096.1, 101, 123, 137, 144, 145, 147, 148, 149.

Investigation articles that apply this roadmap#

These articles in the CFMG–Wellpath public-record investigation apply the framework on this page to a specific record. The roadmap explains method; the articles are the record.

• Article 001 — CFMG Before Wellpath: The California Correctional-Health Corporation That Predated the BrandUses this roadmap as a broader framework for: What was CFMG before the modern Wellpath enterprise, and why does that history matter to claims that it later 'became' Wellpath?
• Article 003 — H.I.G. Enters the CFMG Enterprise: What the 2013 Investment Proves—and What It Does NotUses this roadmap as a broader framework for: Did private-equity investment change the professional corporation's ownership, management, or both?
• Article 004 — The 2018 Correct Care-CMGC Combination: Enterprise Merger Without CFMG DisappearingUses this roadmap as a broader framework for: What actually combined in 2018, and what stayed legally intact?
• Article 007 — Medical Group vs Management Group: The Name Collision That Distorts the Historical RecordDisambiguate similarly named Medical Group and Management Group entities.
• Article 008 — The Other 'CFMG': Why Wellpath CFMG, Inc. Is Not Automatically California Forensic Medical GroupUses this roadmap as a broader framework for: How do similarly named debtor-side entities create bankruptcy and genealogy errors?
• Article 027 — Officer Is Not Owner: The Most Important Corporate-Governance Correction in the RecordUses this roadmap as a broader framework for: Why do president, director, secretary, and medical-director titles fail to prove stock ownership?
• Article 029 — Did CFMG Own Wellpath LLC? The Federal 'Corporate Parent' Disclosure AnomalyUses this roadmap as a broader framework for: How should repeated defense-side Rule 7.1 parent disclosures be reconciled with bankruptcy and affiliate records?
• Article 035 — Napa’s “CFMG dba Wellpath Management, Inc.” Problem: When Official Government Nomenclature Conflicts With Corporate GenealogyResolve governmental shorthand against the underlying corporate and contract records.
• Article 037 — Monterey: How “CFMG dba Wellpath” Became a Federal Court Identity ProblemUses this roadmap as a broader framework for: What happened when decades of County shorthand met bankruptcy-era legal precision?
• Article 051 — Hernandez: The Court That Had to Unlearn the CFMG–Wellpath Name-Change AssumptionUses this roadmap as a broader framework for: What does a decade-long Monterey federal case reveal about the difference between an operating brand, a professional corporation, and a legally relevant defendant?
• Article 053 — Alameda Johnson: Correcting the Claim That WMI Was Formerly CFMGUses this roadmap as a broader framework for: What does the 2026 Johnson stipulation resolve about corporate genealogy, and what does it leave open about practical employment and operational control?
• Article 071 — Chapter 11 as an Institutional X-RayUses this roadmap as a broader framework for: What did Wellpath’s Chapter 11 reveal about an enterprise whose public brand had often obscured its underlying entities and contracts?
• Article 077 — The Wellpath Ownership Chart vs the California Professional CorporationsCheck which entities an ownership chart actually includes and what its filing context establishes.
• Article 078 — CHRS: A Second California Professional Corporation Inside the Same EnterpriseUses this roadmap as a broader framework for: What does California Health and Recovery Solutions reveal about how the enterprise allocates programs among multiple professional corporations?
• Article 088 — Wellpath's Own 2026 Description of CFMGClassify an enterprise's self-description by entity, date and purpose.
• Article 090 — The Contradiction Ledger: Parent, Subsidiary, Affiliate, DBA, Employer, Contractor, and “Separate and Distinct”Reconcile conflicting labels and anticipate the separate-entity explanation.

What this page cannot do#

This page cannot say which organization employed any person, provided any care, held any contract on any date, or made any decision. It cannot say whether any claim against any organization was discharged, released, channelled to the trust or preserved, whether any person opted out, or whether any organization is one of the plan's professional corporations. It does not establish ownership or control among any of the organizations named, and it does not state or suggest that any of them did anything wrongful. Each entry is limited to what the cited public record shows on its face. Those records change, and any future regeneration must use an authenticated release register and document the date and access grade of each material proposition. This private candidate has not been released, merged or regenerated on the public website. Counsel should compare the actual operative plan, orders, claimant notices, ownership records, agency pleadings and employer documentation before advising on any entity-specific claim, especially against a bankruptcy debtor or an asserted Released Party.