Health and Welfare

Physicians and other health care professionals often need a wide variety of professional services from their trusted CPA. 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. It also addresses Medicare laws and regulations, the fraud and abuse laws, physician compensation arrangements and how to divide the profits of the practice, medical office management, and billing considerations.

Written and edited by experienced employee benefits attorneys, EBIA Cafeteria Plans is one of the nation's leading resources for cafeteria plan sponsors and administrators, and discusses just about every cafeteria plan design and administration issue. It provides in-depth coverage of legal requirements for cafeteria plans, health FSAs, and DCAPs, and features practical, real-world examples, tips, tables, checklists, and sample documents to keep you in compliance and on top of new developments. 

Health care reform legislation has significantly altered the landscape for obtaining and providing health care benefits. PPC’s Guide to Health Care Reform provides practical easy-to-understand guidance on the key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Additionally, since Congress left much of the implementation to government agencies, it provides ongoing coverage of IRS, DOL, and HHS pronouncements to help you stay abreast of developments as they occur.

Providing consulting services to health care entities can be challenging due to the constantly evolving nature of the health care industry.  PPC's Guide to Health Care Consulting provides the technical guidance, practical advice, and tools you need to start, develop, and conduct a successful health care consulting practice. Drawing on the proven guidance and practical tools developed by our PPC experts on accounting, consulting, financial planning, practice management, and tax matters, the Guide focuses on considerations unique to health care providers.

PPC's Practice Aids™ - Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals is the perfect companion to your subscription to PPC's Guide to Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals (PHY). They are Microsoft® Word and Excel versions of all of the editable practice aids in that Guide, and they contain extensive practical considerations and tips to help you conduct your engagements effectively and efficiently. They work with leading paperless engagement software or with Word and Excel alone.

Written and edited by experienced employee benefits attorneys, EBIA's Consumer-Driven Health Care provides employers and advisors with the top-notch legal analysis, practical tips, and useful examples they need to understand what consumer-driven health care is and to be able to compare, choose, and implement various tax-favored arrangements, such as health savings accounts (HSAs) and health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs). Also included are sample documents and EBIA Weekly on Checkpoint® (including archives).

EBIA COBRA: The Developing Law explores the nuances of COBRA using real-life examples as a platform for discussing the complicated COBRA rules. Written and edited by experienced employee benefits attorneys, it answers your tough questions and provides comprehensive guidance on all aspects of COBRA administration. In-depth discussions, along with numerous tables, checklists, and sample documents, will keep you informed of current legal developments and assist you in your COBRA compliance efforts.

EBIA Fringe Benefits provides employers and advisors with the top-notch legal analysis, practical tips, and useful examples they need to understand what fringe benefits are and to be able to compare, choose, and implement various fringe benefits plans: pre-tax transportation plans, adoption assistance plans, educational assistance plans, vacation/paid time off (PTO) plans, moving expenses, and employee discounts. Also included are sample documents and EBIA Weekly on Checkpoint® (including archives).

EBIA Group Health Plans: Federal Mandates Other Than COBRA & HIPAA covers important federal mandates for group health plans that are often overlooked: QMCSOs, the Mental Health Parity Act, minimum hospital stays for newborns and mothers, the Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act, federal employment laws affecting group health plans (FMLA, ADA, ADEA, USERRA, etc.), Medicare Part D notice requirements, Medicare Secondary Payer, HMO nondiscrimination requirements, etc. Also included are sample documents and EBIA Weekly on Checkpoint® (including archives).

Written and edited by experienced employee benefits attorneys, EBIA Health Care Reform is your essential partner for employer plan compliance, and provides up-to-date expert analysis of the key requirements that affect employers, advisors, and insurers. It features in-depth coverage of legal requirements and information critical to effective decision-making - with examples, tables, implementation timelines, sample documents, and practical tips that will help you comply with the myriad of complex rules

EBIA HIPAA Portability, Privacy & Security includes comprehensive coverage of HIPAA's requirements for group health plans. It includes HIPAA's privacy and security rules (and EDI and other administrative simplification rules), and HIPAA's portability rules, including pre-existing condition exclusions (PCEs), HIPAA certificates, special enrollments, nondiscrimination, insurance market provisions, etc. Also included are sample documents and EBIA Weekly on Checkpoint® (including archives).

EBIA ERISA Compliance for Health and Welfare Plans on Checkpoint discusses what benefits are subject to ERISA, then explains ERISA's requirements in detail with examples, checklists, court case summaries, tables, Q&As, and compliance tips. It includes in-depth coverage of reporting & disclosure requirements (Form 5500, SPDs, etc.), fiduciary duties, benefits claims procedures, plan documents, handling of participant contributions, benefits disputes, and much more. Also included are sample documents and EBIA Weekly on Checkpoint (including archives).

Written and edited by experienced employee benefits attorneys, EBIA Self-Insured Health Plans answers your questions about what it means to self-insure a health plan, why employers choose to self-insure, and what challenges to expect when changing from an insured plan to a self-insured plan. It walks you through each step of establishing and maintaining a self-insured health plan - from plan design, drafting, and funding decisions, through plan administration and compliance issues - with the aid of sample documents, checklists, and practical examples.

Having to find State Law outside of a research system is a huge challenge for customers and takes an incredibly long time. This comprehensive collection of state employee benefits statutes, regulations and case law provides employee benefit professionals with the access that they need to find the primary authority that they are looking for when they need it across 51 jurisdictions. Anyone responsible for benefits compliance—employers, advisors, attorneys and service providers—can use our collection of state employee benefit statutes, regulations and case law to find the information they need in one place across 51 jurisdictions.