Marketing Manager
CMS froze new DMEPOS Medicare enrollment from February 27 to August 27, 2026, barred 11 suppliers tied to $3.4 billion in suspected fraudulent billing, and suspended $5.7 billion in Medicare payments during 2025. Here is what actually changed for legitimate medical supply businesses and the seven billing and bookkeeping controls that keep claims paid and supplier numbers intact.
Employers usually have 10 to 21 days to respond to an unemployment claim notice, and an unanswered claim raises SUTA experience rates for years — a two-point increase on $800,000 of taxable payroll costs about $16,000 a year. This guide covers how benefit charges hit payroll taxes, when protesting is worth it, why misconduct excludes poor performance, the documentation that wins telephone hearings, and the appeal ladder above them.
An auditor issues one of four opinions — unqualified, qualified, adverse, or disclaimer — decided by two questions: whether the problem is a GAAP departure or a scope limitation, and whether it is material but confined or material and pervasive. This guide maps that grid, explains why a going-concern paragraph is not a qualification, and lists the bookkeeping habits that keep an opinion clean.
A 50% markup on an $8.00 cost yields a 33% margin, not 50% — the single most expensive arithmetic error in small-business pricing. This guide gives the formulas for cost-plus, value-based, and penetration pricing, worked examples, the markup-vs-margin correction, and how to A/B test a price before committing.
CMS released an updated Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage (Form CMS-R-131) on March 13, 2026, mandatory for fee-for-service providers since May 12, 2026. With chiropractic improper payments at 30.4% and nearly 90% of those errors from insufficient documentation, this guide covers ABN trigger points, the GA/GZ/GY modifiers, and the bookkeeping that turns signed notices into collected cash.
Michigan's motor fuel excise tax rose from 31 to 52.4 cents per gallon on January 1, 2026, while the 6% sales tax on fuel disappeared — a swap that costs more below a $3.57 pump price and less above it. Here is the breakeven math, the fleet-level dollar impact, and five recalculations covering cost per mile, surcharges, reimbursements, IFTA filings, and fuel bookkeeping.
Florida, Texas, and Louisiana bar the company that assesses mold from remediating the same property for 12 months, so dual owners run two licensed entities — separate EINs and bank accounts, written shared-cost agreements, and monthly intercompany settlements are what prove the wall is real.
Negligent hiring claims come from customers and bystanders, not employees, and turn on one question — did you exercise reasonable care before this hire? Here is the screening routine (references, role-calibrated background checks, credential verification, documented rationale) and the FCRA, fair-chance, and EEO rules it has to satisfy.
New Jersey is converting home improvement contracting from registration to licensure under P.L.2023 c.237, with licensing provisions effective February 1, 2026. Registration still costs $110 a year, requires $500,000 in general liability coverage and a displayed 13VH number, and any contract over $500 must be written — violations are automatic Consumer Fraud Act unlawful practices carrying treble damages plus attorney's fees, while unregistered contractors generally cannot sue to collect payment.
For tax years beginning in 2026 the Section 448(c) gross-receipts threshold is $32 million, up from $31 million. OBBBA adds a reported $80 million lane for qualifying manufacturers and lets small businesses elect retroactive 2022–2024 R&D expensing under Section 174A by July 6, 2026 — here is the threshold math, who is forced onto accrual, and how a method change works.
Nearly 40 states cap emergency price increases — California at 10% above your own pre-emergency price — and most statutes require no proof of bad intent, only an increase past the threshold. Penalties reach $5,000 per violation in North Carolina and $20,000 in Texas, and the cost-justification defense works only if dated price snapshots and supplier invoices already exist.
A provisional patent application costs $325, $130, or $65 depending on entity size, establishes a priority date, and lets you say "patent pending" — but it is never examined and goes abandoned exactly 12 months after filing, a statutory deadline that cannot be extended. Here is what to file, how to qualify for micro-entity status, and how to track the costs.
