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FOR GEORGIA DOCTORS: Fresh Ideas on Asset Protection, Tax, Practice Planning, Wealth Accumulation and Estate Planning
Co-Authored by
Robert Greenberger
Richard Rubin
Lisa Haynor
Christopher Belknap

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Handy online guides to understanding taxes in your Personal And Business Life with the most up-to-date tax resources and online technology put together in a plain language, reader-friendly format. They incorporate the latest tax laws out of Washington, DC, along with rulings and decisions from the IRS and the federal courts.


Healthcare Practices

No one says being a healthcare provider is easy these days! With the challenges of decreasing reimbursements, ever-changing Federal regulations and providing quality care to patients, doctors entrust professional advisors to keep their practices profitable.

HA&W has a practice dedicated to healthcare providers that includes more than 300 doctors. HA&W understands your issues and tailors our services to meet your needs.

HA&W can:

  • Provide comprehensive tax planning and preparation.
  • Prepare practice financial statements.
  • Assist with EHR systems.
  • Enhance practice operations to maximize revenue and profits.
  • Establish physician income distribution formulas.
  • Structure buy-sell agreements and employment contracts.
  • Assist with practice start-up.
  • Find financing for the expansion of your practice.
  • Perform due diligence on acquisitions of other practices.
  • Navigate the sale of your practice.
  • Develop personal and business financial plans.
  • Set up and administer employee benefits.
  • Assist with coding and billing compliance

For more information about these services, contact Rick Rubin at 404-898-8207.

Article:
Four Essentials Physicians Need to Do Today to Deter and Detect Back-Office Fraud
(PDF file)

Article:
Facing the Coming Financial Challenges to Healthcare Providers (PDF File)
BY MAUREEN LITTLE, CPC, AND JOHN CORN
Atlanta Hospital News - April 2010

Powerpoint:
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT AND TAX TIPS YOUR WAY TO A POSITIVE BOTTOM LINE
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PPT: PRACTICE MANAGEMENT AND TAX TIPSYOUR WAY TO A POSITIVE BOTTOM LINE

Article:
Technology costs may be tax-deductible

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VIDEO:
HA&W Partner Rick Rubin explains how medical practices can remain profitable by lowering their taxes.


Richard A. Rubin, CPARICHARD A. RUBIN, CPA
Partner
Habif, Arogeti & Wynne, LLP

Rick has been a partner with Habif, Arogeti & Wynne, LLP, the largest independent accounting firm in Atlanta, for over 25 years. Rick works with the Advisory and Business Services Group, specializing in healthcare clients, predominantly medical and dental practices. He has a strong background in individual and corporate taxation, retirement plans and small business planning.

Rick has authored articles and taught seminars on numerous topics, including year end tax planning, medical practice management tips and the buying and selling of professional practices.

Rick earned his BBA degree from the University of Georgia. His professional affiliations include memberships in the:

  • American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
  • Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants

Lisa C. Haynor, CPALISA C. HAYNOR, CPA
Partner
Habif, Arogeti & Wynne, LLP

Lisa is a partner in the Advisory and Business Services Group of Habif, Arogeti & Wynne, LLP. She has more than 30 years experience specializing in individual, partnership and corporate taxation and represents many professional services firms. Her primary focus is in working with law firms and medical practices, providing accounting and tax services and consulting on compensation issues, initial practice structuring, succession planning, and growing through acquisition or adding partners. Lisa is co-author of FOR GEORGIA DOCTORS: Fresh Ideas on Asset Protection, Tax, Practice Planning, Wealth Accumulation and Estate Planning.

Lisa earned her BBA degree from the State University of New York at Albany. She participates in many industry and community activities including:

  • The Davis Academy, Board of Directors and Finance Committee
  • Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, Executive Committee and co-chair of Planned Giving
  • Amit, Member Board of Directors and Finance Committee
  • Israel Bonds, Board of Directors
  • American Jewish Committee, Board of Directors
  • Temima High School, Finance Committee
  • American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
  • Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants

Maureen LittleMAUREEN F. LITTLE, CPC
Practice Management Consultant
Habif, Arogeti & Wynne, LLP

Experienced at all levels of practice operations, Maureen is a Practice Management Consultant with HA&W's Advisory and Business Services Group. Some of her areas of specialization are billing and collections, program compliance, coding and personnel issues.

With over 15 years of medical practice management experience, she assists healthcare practices and ancillary medical facilities in improving their financial and operational management procedures. She provides services ranging from comprehensive reviews of practice finances and internal operations to practice management and program compliance including coding and medical record audits.

Maureen is a nurse, by education, having received her nursing diploma from Mary Fletcher Hospital School of Nursing, an affiliate of the University of Vermont located in Burlington, Vermont. In addition to her nursing background, Maureen is a Certified Professional Coder (CPC), a designation from the American Academy of Professional Coders. For over 15 years, she has been involved with medical practice management and consulting, working with adult and pediatric primary care practices, surgical specialties, hospital physician practice networks and ambulatory care facilities. She has also participated in accreditation surveys of the Joint Commission of the Hospital Accreditation Association (JCAHO) and the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Healthcare (AAAHC).

She is a member of the Medical Group Managers' Association, Georgia and Atlanta Chapters and the American Academy of Professional Coders, and has served on physician advisory panels for several insurance companies in Atlanta. She was an active member of the Medical Records Subcommittee with Dekalb Medical Center's Primary Care Division for several years and has conducted numerous seminars on various aspects of practice management.

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