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HHS Announces Additional Provider Relief Funds. Application Due 11/6
Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), announced $20 billion in new funding for providers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. Most healthcare practice owners should...
SBA Announces Simplified Forgiveness Applications For PPP Loans Under $50K
The SBA recently issued Form 3508S (https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/PPP-Loan-Forgiveness-Application-Form-3508S.pdf) which greatly simplifies the loan forgiveness application for practices that received PPP Loans of less than $50k. If you complete the...
2/15/21 Deadline For Recipients of HHS Provider Relief Fund to Self-Report
According to the HHS at: https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/cares-act-provider-relief-fund/reporting-auditing/index.html: "All recipients of more than $10,000 of Provider Relief Fund (PRF) payments are required to comply with the reporting requirements described in the...
Are You Required To Pay Staff Who Can’t Work Due To Childcare Issues?
Q: I have an assistant who has two small kids and has not been coming to the office since she does not have babysitting. She wants to know if she is eligible to still be paid by my office and, if so, how do we go about paying her and do we get a tax credit on the...
Tabitha’s Tips: Convenient And Inexpensive Patient Payment Plan Option
By Guest Writer - Tabitha Lugo, Shelley Renee Practice Consulting Q: I have a quick question for you. We wanted to see if you can give some guidance or any resources regarding payment plans and specifically payment plan arrangement documents. For example, we have an...
How To Pay Off the EIDL Loan
The SBA made it very easy for practice owners to receive an EIDL loan of up to $150k with a fixed 3.75% interest rate over a 30-year term. And a lot of practice owners decided to accept this EIDL loan. As we posted:...
No Rush On Your PPP Loan Forgiveness Application
Practice owners who received the PPP loan earlier this year had 24 weeks to spend the funds on certain payroll and facility expenses to qualify for full forgiveness of that loan. For many of our clients, the 24-week Covered Period has recently ended. Did you know that...
On Extension? Your Deadline is Almost Here
For individual taxpayers who filed an extension, the deadline to submit your final 2019 tax return is Thursday, October 15. A few tips to remember: - You can file your return any time before that date. - If you're due a refund, make sure you muse direct deposit to...
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On Extension? Your Deadline is Almost Here
For individual taxpayers who filed an extension, the deadline to submit your final 2019 tax return is Thursday, October 15. A few tips to remember: - You can file your return any time before that date. - If you're due a refund, make sure you muse direct deposit to...
Be Aware – Unemployment compensation is taxable income
With the pandemic impacting the economy to the extent it has for much of the year, millions of taxpayers found themselves collecting unemployment for the first time in their lives. Although unemployment insurance (UI) is a government program helping taxpayers out of...
IRS is issuing interest on personal tax refunds
Taxpayers who filed their income tax return this year after the original filing date of April 15, 2020 and were due a federal tax refund, may have noticed a little bit extra being refunded to them than they expected. With the revised filing date for 2019 being moved...
Five Steps to A Successful Dental Employee Performance Appraisal
From Guest Writers Mariana Diaz, Executive Coach and Don Khouri, Managing Director, Fortune Northeast Creating and setting a culture that welcomes consistent feedback is crucial to improving team dynamics for many reasons. First, it helps to develop a sense of...
Out From Behind the Covid Wall – From Guest Writer Brenda Loan Baker
From Guest Writer Brenda Loan Baker, Executive Coach, Fortune Management Northeast On every social media platform you can find numerous memes about 2020 being the worst year ever. For most of us this lock-down has been going on since mid-March, seven months now. To...
Employee Social Security Tax Deferral FAQ
We are getting this question a lot from practice owners about the recent Trump Executive Order allowing employees to defer paying their Social Security taxes for the remainder of this year: I wanted to know if we are obligated to withhold the payroll taxes for the...
Great Promotion From Our Friends at Bank of America Practice Solutions
Stefan Green and Dave Miller of Bank of America Practice Solutions recently notified us of their low interest rate promotion of just 1% for 18 months and then fixed for the remainder of the term at 3.43%. To qualify, please apply by 12/1/20. According to Stefan, "Dave...
Tabitha’s Tip: Best Practices To Handle Old Patient Receivables – From Guest Writer Tabitha Lugo
Q: I've been in practice for over 20 years and my books are full of uncollectible Accounts Receivables. Do you have any best practices for how to handle this? A:?What I usually suggest to clients is that once they turn an account over to a collection agency, or in...
Temporary Changes Regarding Deducting Charitable Contributions
Looking to help out various charitable organizations during these crazy times? The IRS has made temporary changes to charitable contribution rates for 2020 tax returns. They have suspended the normal maximum allowable deductions capped at 60 percent of your Adjusted...
Deadline to Apply For The HHS Provider Relief Fund Extended to 9/13
According to information available at: https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/cares-act-provider-relief-fund/faqs/general-distribution/index.html, the deadline to apply for the HHS PPE Subsidy has been extended to 9/13/20. We have posted a lot of information regarding the...
Posts From Our Professional Network
Tabitha’s Tips: Convenient And Inexpensive Patient Payment Plan Option
By Guest Writer - Tabitha Lugo, Shelley Renee Practice Consulting Q: I have a quick question for you. We wanted to see if you can give some guidance or any resources regarding payment plans and specifically payment plan arrangement documents. For example, we have an...
Five Steps to A Successful Dental Employee Performance Appraisal
From Guest Writers Mariana Diaz, Executive Coach and Don Khouri, Managing Director, Fortune Northeast Creating and setting a culture that welcomes consistent feedback is crucial to improving team dynamics for many reasons. First, it helps to develop a sense of...
Out From Behind the Covid Wall – From Guest Writer Brenda Loan Baker
From Guest Writer Brenda Loan Baker, Executive Coach, Fortune Management Northeast On every social media platform you can find numerous memes about 2020 being the worst year ever. For most of us this lock-down has been going on since mid-March, seven months now. To...
Great Promotion From Our Friends at Bank of America Practice Solutions
Stefan Green and Dave Miller of Bank of America Practice Solutions recently notified us of their low interest rate promotion of just 1% for 18 months and then fixed for the remainder of the term at 3.43%. To qualify, please apply by 12/1/20. According to Stefan, "Dave...
Tabitha’s Tip: Best Practices To Handle Old Patient Receivables – From Guest Writer Tabitha Lugo
Q: I've been in practice for over 20 years and my books are full of uncollectible Accounts Receivables. Do you have any best practices for how to handle this? A:?What I usually suggest to clients is that once they turn an account over to a collection agency, or in...
Seven Ways To Get Your Reluctant Patients Back
Guest Writer Don Khouri, Managing Director, Fortune Management Northeast As healthcare practices continue to reach out to patients who need to be scheduled, one of the biggest challenges they face is the wide variation in comfort level their patients have about coming...
New Book And Website Launched To Help Dentists With Their Finances
Congratulations to our long-time client Dr. Sam Shamardi for writing and publishing his book: "The Financial Survival Guide for Dentists". "As you know all too well, dental school doesn't prepare us at all for business, which is our biggest issue by far. My book...
Values Collision: How To Ruin A Great Day At Work
By Guest Writer Don Khouri, Managing Director, Fortune Management Northeast Have you ever had a day like this? You prep for your Monday morning team huddle; notes, handouts, metrics, everything is just the way you like it. It's 7:45 AM and you are ready to go! Then,...
Best Year Ever
By Guest writer Don Khouri, Managing Director, Fortune Management Northeast After ten weeks of staying at home (except for an occasional trip to the supermarket), my hair was pretty long. When I finally got my haircut, I only needed one haircut. I didn't need two or...
Fortune Management Shares How To Avoid The 2020 Hygiene Disaster
Don Khouri, Managing Director, Fortune Management Northeast Most dental practices proactively pre-appoint their hygiene patients for their next visit. For healthy patients, that means six months from now and for perio patients, 3 months from now. Let?s think about...