Medicare audits are nothing new for long-term care facilities, but the Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE) initiative is not your average audit. In November 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it… Read More
On October 17, 2018, I attended my first Leadership Raleigh session, which gave me an in-depth look at the local economy. Adrienne Cole, the President and CEO of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, described… Read More
The North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners is an agency charged with regulating the practice of dentistry in the interest of public health, safety, and welfare and consists of six licensed dentists, one licensed… Read More
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provides for a number of tax figures to be adjusted annually to reflect cost-of-living adjustments based on the Consumer Price Index for the 12-month period ending the previous August… Read More
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provides for a number of tax figures to be adjusted annually to reflect cost-of-living adjustments based on the Consumer Price Index for the 12-month period ending the previous August… Read More
Hurricane Florence made landfall just south of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina on the morning of September 14, 2018. Despite having weakened from its maximum strength as a Category 4 hurricane to a Category 1 hurricane… Read More
“Historic changes” may be coming for providers who treat Medicare beneficiaries, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). On July 12, 2018, CMS published its latest proposed rule—1,473 pages addressing topics that… Read More
Technology strikes again! On June 18, 2018, the Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration issued an interim final rule that delays several provisions of the Medical Examiner’s Certification Integration. The action was necessary to complete IT… Read More
Since 2006, Congress has enacted several pieces of legislation that provide that certain distributions from an IRA be excluded from gross income to the extent that they are qualified charitable distributions. The exclusion, commonly called… Read More
Like me, you may have been the recipient of a recent onslaught of emails from businesses ranging from Amazon to Zillow notifying you of updates to their privacy policies. By and large, these updates have… Read More