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Healthcare Practices

Accounting for Healthcare Practices

Healthcare practice accounting is insurance receivables, provider compensation, retirement plan compliance, and entity structure under specific state rules. Rubric Financial supports medical practices, dental offices, physical therapy clinics, and small private practices with the financial discipline a high-fixed-cost business demands.

What We See Most

Common challenges in this category

The accounting and tax issues we run into repeatedly with healthcare practices clients.

  • Insurance A/R aging with payer mix: net collection rate by payer, contractual adjustments, and write-offs
  • Provider compensation models: salary + production bonus, percentage of collections, partnership distributions
  • Professional corporation (PC), professional LLC (PLLC) state-specific entity rules and tax elections
  • Retirement plan compliance: cash balance plans, defined benefit, profit sharing — often complex multi-tier setups
  • Equipment depreciation and §179 elections for capital-intensive practices
  • HIPAA-aware bookkeeping practices and limited PHI exposure

FAQ

Common questions

Can you handle insurance receivables and payer-mix reporting?
Yes. We track A/R aging by payer, calculate net collection rates, and separate contractual adjustments from bad-debt write-offs in the GL.
Do you do partner buy-in / buy-out work?
Yes — through our Fractional CFO and Business Valuation services. Partner transitions in healthcare practices are common and require both modeling (CFO) and a defensible valuation.
Can you support cash balance retirement plans?
We coordinate with your TPA / actuary for plan design and execute the bookkeeping and tax treatment of contributions. Cash balance plans are common in dental and medical practices and meaningfully reduce owner tax.
Are you familiar with PC / PLLC entity rules?
Yes. State-specific professional entity rules (especially in California and New York) drive entity structure decisions. We coordinate with your healthcare-business attorney on entity formation and elections.

Run a healthcare practices business?

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