JD Supra

IRS (Quietly) Announces Procedures for the Assessment and Payment of Excise Taxes under the Affordable Care Act’s Employer Shared Responsibility Rules

The Internal Revenue Service has for some time made available a comprehensive set of Questions & Answers covering the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer shared responsibility rules. (These are the ...
Houston Chronicle

Ways to Improve Accounting Procedures

Your business accounting system can do more than just keep track of your money inflows and outflows. It can help increase your profits by eliminating waste and money lost due to missing deadlines.
Government Executive

Pay, Shutdown Procedures Complicated by Impending Holidays

The White House said Thursday that, absent congressional action to provide retroactive pay to federal workers, furloughed employees at unfunded agencies will not receive pay associated with the ...
Becker's ASC

CMS Adjustment of Surgery Center Payment for Multiple Procedures Performed During the Same Operative Session

The following Q&A comes from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services website. Q: Will CMS adjust ambulatory surgical center payment for multiple procedures performed during the same operative ...
Health Affairs

The Payment Reform Landscape: Why Medicare’s Hip And Knee Replacement Payment Model May Not Be The Answer For Other Payers And Purchasers

Some of the most common surgeries that Medicare beneficiaries receive are hip and knee replacements. In 2013, there were more than 400,000 inpatient primary procedures, costing Medicare more than $7 ...