Vendor HIPAA Breach Periodically we are asked questions about Business Associates and how to handle a vendor HIPAA breach. Recently, we were asked the following question Under HIPAA concerning Business... Read More >
Revisiting HIPAA Compliance In the two decades since its original passage, HIPAA compliance Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA hasn t gotten any easier. Enacted with the primary goal... Read More >
March th Edition of the Physician Advocate The past few weeks have been difficult for all of Texas. We are with our clients, family and friends in wishing full recovery... Read More >
Physician Practice Uncollectibles Think your physician practice uncollectibles are only good to look at on an aging report? Well maybe not. Instead of just considering them to be dead accounts,... Read More >
Personal Disaster Loss Deduction We seem to be living in an age of natural disasters. Floods, fires, hurricanes, tornados, and other disasters often dominate the news. If a personal disaster... Read More >
Focus Areas to Ensure Medical Practice Success At this time each year, people become zeroed in or have left behind their resolutions and goals for the new year ahead. This... Read More >
Medical Practice KPIs If you re like most providers and practice managers, you re already busy enough keeping up with the day-to-day operations. But monitoring your practice s financial performance... Read More >
Successful Physician Marketing Four ways to improve your bottom line Practice providers and office managers may think marketing requires a lot of money due to the cost of implementing newspaper... Read More >
Second February Edition of the Physician Advocate The past few weeks have been difficult for all of Texas. We are with our clients, family and friends in wishing full recovery... Read More >
Managed Care Oversight You have payer relationships so I ask How is your current managed care oversight? While your medical practice may be compliant with billing regulations and coding, this... Read More >
Medicare Secondary Payer Background Medicare law and regulations require all entities that bill Medicare for services or items given to Medicare beneficiaries to decide whether Medicare is the primary payer... Read More >
OSHA Overview Remember OSHA? Seems like we ve forgotten about it. However, like HIPAA, your medical practice has to be in compliance Are you? Here is a brief overview of... Read More >
Accounts Payable and Internal Controls The vital role that internal controls play within any well managed medical practice is widely recognized. Knowledgeable practice managers are well aware that poor controls... Read More >
Individual k Simply put, an Individual or Solo k is a retirement account designed for the self-employed, or business owners with no full-time employees, like a solo physician practice. An... Read More >
SEP IRA vs Solo k Which Should You Choose? How do you multiply your net worth? Let the government help. Here s how With both the SEP IRA and the... Read More >
Physician Merger Due Diligence You and another or a group of physicians are considering a merger with each other. In any medical practice merger, the most important part of the... Read More >
Medicare Wellness Visits Medicare covers wellness visits, and your patients pay nothing if you accept assignment. The Part B deductible doesn t apply. You should recommend the Initial Preventive Physical... Read More >
February Edition of the Physician Advocate In our February newsletter we cover Fraud and the Sleeping Watchdog, the Individual Tax Provisions of the New Appropriations Act, and Five Tips to... Read More >
Key Physician Practice Pre-Merger Decisions During the merger process, the physicians as a group will need to make numerous key pre-merger decisions about certain aspects and elements of the new... Read More >
Home Office Deduction If you have an office outside your personal home say, downtown can you have a tax-deductible office inside your home for the same trade or business that... Read More >
How To Collect Deductible From Patient It s that time of year again patients will make an appointment with you and they will now have a copayment and a deductible... Read More >
Medical Practice Overhead or Improve the Top Line? I recently saw the recent blurb in a physician email newsletter Diagnostic clinic short on docs Once a vibrant and expanding practice... Read More >
HIPAA Compliance The Office for Civil Rights OCR at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS has released its - HIPAA Audits Industry Report that reviewed selected health... Read More >
Meals amp Entertainment Remember the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act TCJA largely eliminated the deduction for entertainment expenses paid or incurred after , but left intact certain exceptions. The IRS... Read More >
December Edition of the Physician Advocate In our December newsletter we cover establishing staff accountability, the MIPS reporting, and patient overpayments and escheat laws. Read the December Newsletter below or... Read More >
Medical Practice Valuation What is a medical practice worth? IT DEPENDS And once you understand this sole fact, you can then begin to concentrate on how to get to the... Read More >
Tax Strategies for Your Stock Portfolio When you take advantage of the tax code s offset game, your stock market portfolio can represent a little gold mine of opportunities to... Read More >
Physician Practice Employee Success and Your Leadership When it comes to leadership, one can only expect to get back from their employees what they choose to invest in them. Leaders... Read More >
Year-End Medical Plan Strategies For Physician Practices All physician practice owners with one to employees should have a medical plan in their business. Sure, the tax law does not require... Read More >
November Edition of the Physician Advocate In our November newsletter we cover working the A R, the dangers of cloned notes, and best practices over best efforts. Read the November... Read More >
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