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If you’re like most physicians, you don’t even dedicate one day per month to see how you could reduce your tax liability.

With the advent of consumer-directed health plans, diligent payment collection management is even more important as patients will be assuming more financial responsibility for their health care expenses.

Any electronically-based disease management program can create significant risk to an organization for unauthorized use or disclosure of patient information, and must comply with applicable federal and state patient confidentiality, privacy and consent requirements.

No other area of EMTALA compliance has fostered the level of confusion and discord among hospitals and physicians as has the topic of physician on-call coverage.

There is scant evidence that QIO interventions drive quality improvement, and QIOs appear to meet their beneficiary complaint review obligations poorly. Those findings were affirmed by an Institute of Medicine investigation, which will guide government reforms.

Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code allows a taxpayer to defer the income tax applicable to gain otherwise recognizable when you “exchange’’ property used in a trade or business (your practice) or hold for investment, (i.e., rental real estate ) for property of a “like kind.”

The biggest thing that has changed in the valuation of medical practices world has been the intangible/goodwill element of practices.

These people are physician colleagues, but play very specific roles in the hospital setting, often exercising authority over your patients, while controlling assets and resources you may want access to.