During its past session the Florida legislature passed several bills that were signed into law that change the ability of Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners (“ARNPs”) and Physician Assistants (“PAs”) to prescribe Schedule II, III and IV controlled substances. It is important to note that while the legislation is effective July 1, 2016, the authority to [...]
You may experience longer wait times to obtain an employer identification number (EIN) from the IRS. The IRS will no longer process EIN’S online if the responsible party is an entity with an EIN which was previously obtained online through the Internet. For example, assume Don’s Machine Shop, LLC was formed and obtained its EIN [...]
Many business owners are faced with the possibility that the largest asset they own in their retirement portfolio is their privately owned business. Many business owners have expressed a desire to pull value from their existing businesses as a planning strategy to deliver some liquidity and diversification to themselves in lieu of selling a controlling [...]
What is MACRA? MACRA is the acronym for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. The legislation sets a roadmap for the future of physician reimbursement from Medicare. How does MACRA affect physician reimbursement? MACRA permanently repeals the SGR (sustainable growth rate) formula avoiding the 21.2% Medicare physician payment cut that was expected [...]
Effective January 1, 2016, Medicare revised its “incident to” billing rules requiring that incident to services are billed under the physician who directly supervises the auxiliary personnel (i.e. the person performing the incident to service). Most incident to services require direct supervision (defined below) of auxiliary personnel providing the incident to services. When a physician’s [...]
I recently had a company contact me about incentivizing its key employees to participate in the future growth of the company. The company’s CEO informed me that he recently had a consultant advise him that the only way to allow employees to participate in the future growth of a privately held company was through an [...]
Compliance plans, privacy, HIPAA, FIPA, HITECH, ICD-10, Stark, Anti-Kickback, fee-splitting, unbundling, coding, ZPIC audits, whistleblowers, qui tam, NLRB, exempt or non-exempt employees, EHR, and ACOs. Compliance. Compliance. Compliance. And all with decreasing reimbursement for services rendered. How do I comply with all of this AND still provide quality patient care, with a smile? Because if [...]
Come join our friendly, positive working environment! Flexible Hours! RezLegal, LLC (located near Butler/San Pablo and convenient to the Beaches) has an immediate opening for a part-time legal assistant. This position is for corporate/transactional support work (no litigation). Duties (will include, but are not limited to the following): Furnish administrative support; Perform transcription for legal [...]
RezLegal, LLC has an immediate opening for a full-time executive legal assistant. Come join our friendly, positive working environment! RezLegal, LLC (located near Butler/San Pablo and convenient to the Beaches) has an immediate opening for a full-time executive legal assistant. This position is for corporate/transactional support work (no litigation). Duties (will include, but are not limited to [...]
Congratulations to Breezy HR, Inc. on its recent capital raise with Real Ventures, a Canadian venture capital firm. The RezLegal team advising Breezy HR was led by David Jeans with assistance from Rick Reznicsek. Read more about the transaction here: Jacksonville Business Journal Article.
RezLegal is proud to welcome two new attorneys Lacey Croy and Samantha France. Lacey joins the firm with a focus on corporate law and business transactions. Samantha joins the firm with a focus on healthcare and corporate law. Both attorneys have several years of experience practicing law prior to joining RezLegal. We are thrilled to [...]