Healthcare and medical video production in Los Angeles

Yes. Healthcare is our deepest sector. We have produced more than 200 videos for Kaiser Permanente since 2019, including brand, physician recruitment, facility and training work across Southern California, plus patient and product work for Abbott and Fisher and Paykel Healthcare, device films for Carevature and Surgtime, and long-form documentary for Desert Oasis Healthcare.

We keep an office in Los Angeles and our main base is in Irvine, about an hour down the 405. The crew and kit are local either way, which is why a Los Angeles estimate carries no travel, flight or accommodation line.

We sign your Business Associate Agreement where one is required and film under your own patient consent and authorization forms rather than substituting ours. Charts, screens and identifiable patients are cleared from frame before a take rather than blurred afterwards, and raw footage access is limited to the people you name. HIPAA-certified is not a status a production vendor can hold, and we do not claim it.

Yes. We complete vendor credentialing and site agreements before the shoot day, sanitise gear before it enters a clinical zone, follow your infection control protocol, and plan sterile-field access with your staff in advance. We film off-peak or in pre-staged suites so clinic hours are worked around rather than interrupted.

Yes. We sign your NDA before we see a prototype, agree the claim set with your regulatory and legal teams before scripting, and build 3D mechanism of action animation from your own CAD files. Stealth products and devices pending clearance are routine here.

Between $3,500 and $25,000 for most single projects. A patient testimonial starts at $3,500, a doctor profile or facility tour at $6,000, a recruitment or brand campaign at $8,500, and medical device work with 3D animation reaches $25,000. Ongoing health system programmes start at $25,000. There is no travel line on Los Angeles work.

On private property, including your own hospital, clinic or office, no. Public streets, parks and many city-owned locations need a permit from FilmLA, which we arrange and itemise in the estimate. Most healthcare projects never need one, because the filming happens on your own site.

Yes, with a licensed remote pilot and where airspace allows. Los Angeles has unusually dense controlled airspace around LAX, Burbank, Van Nuys, Long Beach and Santa Monica, plus hospital helipads, so we check authorisation before promising an aerial rather than after.

Yes. We cover conferences at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Pasadena and hotel venues, and we usually recommend more than one crew: one on the floor, one running an interview room for KOL and customer testimonials, and same-day edits so social posts land while the event is still running.

About four weeks from filming to the final cut on most projects. The variable is your review round rather than our edit, which is why we agree the approval chain, including compliance and clinical sign-off, at scope rather than afterwards.

We do both. Pre-production and scripting is $1,000 to $1,500 and includes the interview question list, which goes to your compliance team before we film rather than after. For patient and physician work we interview rather than script, because a clinician reading marketing copy is the fastest way to lose a referring physician.

You own the finished films and the licensed footage. We archive the raw material and project files, access is limited to the people you name, and we return or delete them on request.