Practice Management News

Allowing nurse practitioners full practice authority may help diversify the workforce and increase access to primary care, according to experts, but there are many factors in the benefit-risk balance to consider.

Our third and final post in the series “Introduction to Taxation of Sales Proceeds” addresses the taxation of sale proceeds if a target practice is a partnership, including an LLC treated as a partnership.

The American Medical Association and 118 other medical societies, including the American College of Rheumatology, are urging CMS to finalize proposed rules aiming to reform prior authorization, according to a press release.

Most medical practices nationwide sponsor some type of qualified retirement plan (QRP), including 401(k)s, profit-sharing plans, defined benefit plans and hybrid plans. Most physicians do not realize that a growing area of liability for all businesses, including medical practices, relates to QRPs and how they are managed.

In the United States, there were more than 600 excess deaths among physicians from March 2020 to December 2021, according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

There has been a lot of attention about a proposed rule from the Federal Trade Commission that would prohibit many noncompetes. However, much of the discussion has been misleading, if not entirely wrong.

Healio compiled the most-read news in allergy, asthma and immunology posted in January.

As we are in early 2023, we plan to use this column to provide a high-level update on new developments in tax and asset protection planning, and hope these updates prompt some physicians to look into these areas early in the year.

Increasing access to care will be a priority for Jonathan A. Bernstein, MD, FAAAAI, when he takes the reins as president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology at the organization’s annual meeting in February.

Our next post in this series addresses the taxation of sale proceeds if a target practice is classified as an S corporation.