The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule, released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) earlier this month, extended certain telehealth-related flexibilities that were implemented during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. CMS issued a Fact
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Important Changes to NY’s Health Care Proxy Law
As of November 2023, having a valid health care proxy became easier for New Yorkers. A health care proxy allows a competent adult to appoint an agent to make health care choices for them if they lose the ability to…
The Family Business – Compensating Family-Employees
By Louis Vlahos
Mixing Holidays With Business
Hope you had a good Thanksgiving Holiday. Some of us probably feel we ate or drank either too much or not enough, watched too much or not enough football, or spent too much time discussing politics…
NY Physician, Wife and Staff Admit AKS Violations
By Eric Fader
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Trenton, NJ announced on November 22 that primary care physician Yitzchok “Barry” Kurtzer of Monsey, NY, and his wife pleaded guilty to soliciting and receiving kickbacks and bribes in exchange for ordering genetic tests. Kurtzer…
This Thanksgiving, Give Thanks for Taxes . . . or Not
By Louis Vlahos
Our Holiday
Thanksgiving has been a national holiday in the U.S. since 1870. During most of that period, at least until recently, it has also been a unifying force as immigrants to this country, eager to be assimilated to American…
OCR Releases Resource Documents on Telehealth Risks
By Eric Fader
N.Y. Sales Tax – Responsible Person Liability
By Louis Vlahos
NY Needs the Revenue
A couple of weeks ago, the Tax Foundation released its latest “State Business Tax Climate Index,”[i] which assesses a state’s tax system and compares it to that of other states. New York seems to be…
Activities Contrary to Public Policy – Revoking the Tax Exempt Status of Universities
By Louis Vlahos
WTF
It appears that many of the country’s colleges and universities[i] believe they have not already contributed enough to the decline of American education and to the erosion of our society, generally.
These institutions of so-called higher learning are…
Disclaiming to Save Taxes
By Louis Vlahos
It’s not enough for the founder of a closely held business to have successfully established the business. The business has to grow, not only to increase profits, but also to make it more competitive and to diversify its customer base.…
Hospitals and Community Benefit: Senators See a Shortfall
By Louis Vlahos
Tax the Rich
For many weeks, we’ve been hearing about the IRS’s plans to use the funding provided under the Inflation Reduction Act[i] to increase and expand its compliance and enforcement efforts with respect to the wealthy, high-income earners,…