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Business Insider reports, “Shark Tank” has changed the outlook for many small businesses over its eight years on the air. That makes its stars some of the most knowledgeable people on earth when it comes to what makes or breaks small businesses and why they’re so important to the American economy.

LifeZette recently reported, In what may be the most significant modification to Medicare since the program began in 1966, on Oct. 15, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final rule for implementing the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). It dramatically changes how Medicare pays doctors for their services.

According to the NFIB, even though Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have been conspicuously mum about their minimum wage plans during the debates, small business owners have plenty of reason for concern.

A recent survey conducted by NFIB reports, Uncertainty is a significant barrier to economic growth in the small-business sector. Uncertainty limits the ability of small-business owners to pursue investment opportunities in their business. NFIB’s 2016 Small Business Problems and Priorities survey found that two of the top ten most severe problems affecting small-business owners are uncertainty related. Uncertainty over economic conditions and uncertainty over government actions are ranked fourth and sixth out of 75 business problems. About one-quarter of small business owners find each a “critical” problem in operating their business.

Recently exposed in The Wall Street Journal, Senior housing, medical-office buildings and hospitals all have generated big gains for commercial-real-estate investors in recent years, but skilled-nursing facilities have gotten short shrift.

According to Small Business Trends, the “random” audits of small businesses and their owners’ tax returns by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to find unreported income has left the small business taxpaying community feeling like they are being picked on and unduly forced to go “through the wringer.”

Benefits Pro reports, the federal government is gearing up to go big on Medicare reimbursement reform. The finalized new payment rules unveiled by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services last week amount to a whopping 2,4000 pages, the Associated Press reports.

Please see the video below, a client testimonial with Andrea L. Brown-Joseph.  Ms. Brown-Joseph is the Director with A Supreme Nursing and Homecare in our home state of Georgia.  Supreme Nursing is a skilled nursing agency providing services to all type of patients from "pediatrics to the golden age".

Strategic Partner Program at Provider Web experiences accelerated growth as MGMA conference approaches