SCPMG (Southern California Permanente Medical Group) which is Kaiser Permanente in Southern California provides a Keogh plan for their physicians. It is s defined contribution plan. In essence it is just like a 401K but through the use of the Keogh and the 401K, they can do a total of 54K into tax deferred retirement funds. The main difference is that with this Keogh you must elect to contribute an exact amount each year or face penalties.
Keogh is a rather complex plan with several variants (profit-sharing Keogh and money purchase Keogh):
https://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/retirement-planning/keogh-retirement-plans.htm
From what I can tell, profit sharing is limited to 15%, and money purchase is 25%. There are very few advantages of this over a traditional 401k plan, and more than a handful of limitations, that's why 1/3 of these plans are non-compliant and IRS is auditing them (as per the article). There are probably not too many such plans left.
There is nothing in the form 5500 for SCPMG that identifies this plan as a Keogh though. It looks exactly like any 401k plan would.
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