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NY based billing company billing for NJ Provider?
galinafl26:
I am still confused by this. My office is located in Tampa, Fl. I have clients all over the country. So you're saying, I have to register my business all over united states? I currently have 14 accounts and they are all over the country. As per my attorney and accountant, it's where you are physically located and where your bank account was opened. It's where you are at, not where your clients are.
RichardP:
States have a right and responsibility to regulate commerce within their borders - and they do. Where you and your bank account are located are irrelevant to the central issue here. If you do business within a state, that state has the right to regulate you. States won't all regulate you in the same way, and some may not regulate you at all. But all have the right and responsibility to regulate the commerce within their borders.
Now - where did you say your client was (rhetorical questions)? In what state is the business conducted that you do the billing for? In what state does your client earn his money? In what state does your client pay his taxes on monies earned? In what state does he write the check to pay you for your services? You are conducting commerce in that state, whichever one it is. Therefore, the state has a right and responsibility to regulate the commerce you conduct, and how you conduct it, in that state. Some states may choose to not regulate you. But other states do choose to regulate you.
PMRNC:
--- Quote ---I am still confused by this. My office is located in Tampa, Fl. I have clients all over the country. So you're saying, I have to register my business all over united states? I currently have 14 accounts and they are all over the country. As per my attorney and accountant, it's where you are physically located and where your bank account was opened. It's where you are at, not where your clients are.
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If you work accounts in any state that requires registration, licensing, etc.. Yes you need to adhere to their rules if doing business in one of those states. Likewise since you are in Florida, it's one of the states that prohibit's physicians from entering into any fee-splitting arrangement (% based billing) however if you have a client in another state that does NOT, your provider in that state can enter into that contract. Provider's in the states that prohibit fee-splitting arrangements would not be able to enter into those types of contacts.
Remember also that dealing with multiple states does indeed knowing the regs and rules in each state. We all know Auto/No Fault, Workers Compensation and Medicaid and even BCBS have state by state rules to follow. Knowing the regs of the state in which you are billing or doing work in, is certainly a must.
galinafl26:
I don't think I was understood properly. I wasen't asking about fee splitting, registrations, etc. I have an S corp in Florida. So you're saying if I have accounts all over the country, I need to have an S corp in every state. I am not talking about regulations and how to do business there.
PMRNC:
The fee-splitting was just an example.
--- Quote ---I am still confused by this. My office is located in Tampa, Fl. I have clients all over the country. So you're saying, I have to register my business all over united states? I currently have 14 accounts and they are all over the country. As per my attorney and accountant, it's where you are physically located and where your bank account was opened. It's where you are at, not where your clients are.
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When you said "registration" I was assuming since we were talking about a diff type of registration as in the original message of this thread that is what you meant. This was never about tax/business "structure". SOME states require registration of third party billing companies that do business in their state, such as in the case of the original message (NJ).
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