Draffin Tucker manager, Matt Atkins, is scheduled to speak at the HFMA 2019 Annual Conference with the topic: 340B Compliance: Protecting Your Savings. During his session, he will discuss the increasing scrutiny and pressure on all fronts of the 340B Program, as well as the compliance steps you should implement to ensure program integrity and [...]
Thursday, April 4th, 2019 Tyler Rose with Draffin & Tucker talks about how Georgia created a new tax credit for timber damaged by Hurricane Michael. Click to view video.
ALBANY, March 29, 2019 – In response to Georgia’s Rural Hospital Tax Credit Program, Draffin & Tucker, LLP has just announced they have contributed $432,000 to rural hospitals within the state over the last two years. “As a firm that has worked with rural hospitals for more than 40 years, we understand just how important [...]
Discussion of UBI on Qualified Employee Parking Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, certain fringe benefits provided to employees of tax-exempt organizations generate Unrelated Business Income if provided after December 31, 2017. The amount of UBI is equal to the costs associated with providing these benefits that would be disallowed under [...]
One of the key components of the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017” (“TCJA”) was the newly created deduction for owners of pass-through entities. This topic was briefly discussed in our blog titled “Overview of the Business Provisions in the New Tax Reform Act,” but the following is intended to dig deeper into [...]
For the first time in 30 years, we have sweeping changes in income tax law! On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017” (“TCJA”). Unlike tax acts of recent years, TCJA will require significant additional guidance through legislation, Treasury Regulations and other agency interpretations. However, [...]
For the first time in 30 years, we have sweeping changes in income tax law! On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017” (“TCJA”). Unlike tax acts of recent years, TCJA will require significant additional guidance through legislation, Treasury Regulations and other agency interpretations. However, [...]
The newly released 340B Office of Pharmacy Affairs Information System (340B OPAIS) is now available. With the release of this new system all covered entities should download the 340B OPAIS Public User Guide and review the webinar on OPAIS (links below). The goal of this new system is to increase the security, user accessibility, [...]
As part of Georgia’s new Rural Hospital Tax Credit Program, Draffin & Tucker, LLP is pleased to announce they will be contributing $124,000 through this program to all eligible rural hospitals in the state. This contribution will be equally divided between all 49 eligible hospitals. “Draffin & Tucker, LLP is proud to serve rural [...]
Draffin & Tucker's Matt Atkins, CPA, CIA, authored the article, "Auditing the Hospital 340B Drug Program," for the May 2017 Compliance Today. In his article, Matt states, "There are more than 3,500 hospitals currently participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program. Along with the financial benefits of the program, there are numerous compliance risks. For this [...]