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Practical tax, compliance, and practice-operations playbooks for California nurse practitioners, school-contracted SLP, ABA, and Mental Health NPAs.

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Practical playbooks, no fluff. Bookmark these — your generalist CPA hasn’t read them.

Tax Strategy S CORP
Tax Strategy

S-Corp Election for Therapy Practices: When It Pays and When It Doesn’t

Most therapy practice owners are leaving $15–18K on the table by mistiming or skipping S-corp election. Here’s the actual breakeven math for PT, OT, and SLP practices in California.

11 min read · Tax Strategy
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Tax Strategy

Reasonable Compensation for Healthcare Practice Owners: The IRS Defense Playbook

The single-biggest audit risk for S-corp healthcare owners. Here’s how we document reasonable comp for NPs, PTs, OTs, and SLPs using BLS data, hours worked, and benchmark studies.

9 min read · Tax Strategy
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Tax Strategy

The 27-Item Tax Deductions Checklist Every Therapy Practice Owner Misses

Sensory gyms, continuing education, AAC devices, telehealth platforms, vehicle use, home office. The deductions checklist your generalist CPA hasn’t given you.

8 min read · Tax Strategy
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Practice Operations

MSO vs In-House Bookkeeping for Healthcare: The True Cost Analysis

Hiring a $65K bookkeeper looks cheaper than a $1,500/mo MSO until you actually run the math. Here’s the all-in TCO comparison most healthcare practices never do.

10 min read · Practice Operations
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