PPC's Guide to Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals:

• Covers a wide range of profitable services, including write-up, financial planning, federal income tax planning, retirement plans, and payroll taxes—and the relevant independence rules.

• Discusses Medicare reimbursement, Medicare laws and regulations, the fraud and abuse laws, including the updates to the Stark II Rules, physician compensation arrangements and how to divide the profits of the practice, medical office management, and billing considerations.

PPC's Guide to Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals contains comprehensive and practical guidance about offering profitable services to health care professionals, including write-up, financial planning, federal income tax planning, retirement planning, and payroll taxes—and the relevant independence rules. The Guide covers providing services to both individual health care professional and group practices and includes:

• In-depth "how-to" guidance with hundreds of practice aids and sample financial statements, disclosures, and reports, all tailored to an engagement for a physician's practice.

• Forms and checklists that are streamlined to provide you maximum efficiency for serving your physician clients while complying with professional standards and peer review requirements.

• Numerous examples and illustrations that reduce the technical language of laws, regulations, and official professional pronouncements to easy-to-understand advice and procedures, helping you address almost every situation you might encounter in an engagement for a physician or another health care professional.