October brings more than just Halloween decorations and candy corn. For private physicians, it conjures financial monsters that can drain your practice faster than a

The federal government shut down on October 1st, 2025. The IRS furloughed approximately half its workforce. And your tax obligations? They didn’t budge an inch.

Most medical practice owners will start thinking about 2026 taxes sometime around April 14th, 2026. By then, they’ve already missed 90% of the opportunities that

Everything you’ve learned over the past six weeks leads to this moment. You’ve navigated the Quarter 3 deadline pressure. You’ve analyzed your practice’s vital signs.

Goals without metrics are just wishes. And wishes don’t pay practice expenses, build wealth, or create the financial security your family deserves. Last week, your

Your Quarter 3 performance already wrote your 2025 story. The question is: do you know how to read it? Most practice owners look at their

Congratulations. You made it through the September 15th deadline. Whether you calculated your Quarter 3 payment with surgical precision or submitted a conservative estimate to

Seven days left. That’s all the time remaining to protect your practice’s financial health and avoid costly IRS penalties. No more procrastination. No more “I’ll

You wouldn’t guess a patient’s diagnosis and hope for the best, would you? Of course not. Yet when it comes to Quarter 3 estimated tax

Remember that sinking feeling when you realized you forgot something important? Your stomach drops. Your heart races. And suddenly, you’re scrambling to fix something that

Do you remember going to medical school to become a QuickBooks expert? No. You entered medicine to heal, to help, and to make a meaningful

You went to medical school to save lives. Becoming a fortune teller never even crossed your mind, did it? Yet here you are, trying to

You’ve been staring at that pile of financial reports for the last hour, haven’t you? The ones that might as well be written in ancient

Remember when you thought medical school was expensive? That was before you discovered the thousand tiny ways your practice hemorrhages money daily. You’re not alone

The ink is barely dry on President Trump’s signature, and you’re probably wondering what the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) means for your practice

September 15th is circled on your calendar. But not for the reason it should be. While you’re thinking about back-to-school schedules and fall patient surges,

It’s July. Half the year is behind you. And if you’re like most practice owners, you have no idea whether you’re on track for your

You check your bank balance and feel that familiar knot in your stomach. Payroll is next week. The quarterly tax payment is due. And you

Picture this. Dr. Sarah, a brilliant cardiologist, decides to renovate her kitchen. She’s performed thousands of complex procedures. Surely installing a backsplash can’t be that

You’re exhausted. Not just from the long hours caring for patients, but from the constant financial fires you’re putting out. Surprise tax bills. Cash flow

Do you remember going to medical school to become a financial analyst? No. You entered medicine to heal, to help, and to make a meaningful

So, you’ve heard about the “One Big Beautiful Bill” making its way through Congress. And yes, that’s actually what they’re calling it—because apparently, our great

You know that feeling when you’re drowning in paperwork at 7 PM, wondering if you became a physician to heal people or to master the

After years of surviving on hospital cafeteria coffee and postponing actual adult life, you deserve to keep more of what you earn. But between patient

The writing is on the waiting room wall. Between the insurance labyrinth, digital transformation pressure, and patients expecting both Marcus Welby’s bedside manner and Star

You’ve filed your 2024 return, you’ve analyzed what it’s telling you about your practice finances, and you’ve addressed any immediate issues. But what now? If

You know that sinking feeling. The one that hits after you’ve finally submitted your tax return and suddenly realize all the things you could have

We’ve been here before, private practitioner. You didn’t have any idea during medical school that you were going to end up being a chief operating

You didn’t pursue medicine because you were passionate about tax code. Good Lord, I hope not.  Otherwise, you’re a very special kind of weird. Yet

We can’t ignore the fact that you didn’t go through a decade of medical training to become an expert in tax code. Yet here you

Fear not, doctors. Think of what I’m about to share with you as your financial vaccination against the painful sting of tax penalties. Your medical

So you’ve mastered the art of diagnosing obscure conditions and keeping your patients healthy. Bravo! But let’s talk about something that might make you break

Have you found yourself staring at spreadsheets at 11 PM after a 12-hour shift? The irony isn’t lost on you. You can diagnose complex medical

Tick tock, tick tock… hear that? It’s the sound of the business tax filing deadline approaching. As of this writing, you have exactly one week

You spent countless hours mastering the art of patient diagnosis, memorizing symptoms, treatments, and medications. Yet somehow, no one thought to mention that running a

Code blue alert: While you’re busy saving lives, your hard-earned income might be hemorrhaging unnecessarily to the IRS. The financial prognosis doesn’t have to be

Let’s assume that you didn’t endure those mind-numbing years of medical school to learn how to master financial spreadsheets. Yet here you are, running a

Let’s clear up a misconception that quite frankly gives me night sweats and mild cardiac palpitations. I find myself wailing and gnashing my teeth every

Ah, January. The month when some of you physicians suddenly remember you should have been keeping better records all year long. Sound familiar? Be fair

You may be thinking this is another article about negotiating better contracts or taking more patient encounters. Spoiler alert: It’s not. What if I told

Tell the truth; you’d rather perform a double bypass than deal with your taxes. Right? As a physician, your time is better spent healing patients

When you get down to it, you spent a decade in medical school to become a doctor, not an accountant. Between saving lives and deciphering

Happy New Year, valued physicians across the land! It seems that every new year brings new challenges for those of you in practice for yourselves.

If it wasn’t so long and clumsy, we could subtitle this last entry of the year, “Why your January 15th Tax Payment could be your

As the tinsel goes up and the holiday music fills the air (hopefully not in an endless loop in your waiting room), we pause to

We’re midway through the final accounting cycle of the year (also known as a “month,” for everyone that isn’t a bean-crunching dweeb). We like to

Beginning with last week I am providing as much information as possible regarding the political landscape’s effect on taxation, and the net resulting effects that

You’ve worked hard to build your medical practice, investing countless hours in education, training, and patient care. For the last 7 years or so, however,

Remember the days when your medical records were hieroglyphics scrawled on manila folders, and your doctor’s waiting room felt like a time capsule from 1987?

Let’s face it – you didn’t spend countless sleepless nights in medical school just to hand over half your hard-earned income to Uncle Sam. While

Let’s talk about that dark and easily forgotten room in your mind where you store all your tax obligations. You know the one – it