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Recently published in NewsFactor, Small business owners are rushing to get their companies -- in particular their employees - ready for an upcoming change in overtime rules.

According to California Healthline, In recent months, health aides who care for elderly Americans at home appeared at scores of rallies calling for better pay and workplace conditions. President Barack Obama and some of the presidential candidates have pledged to improve the lives of these workers, who often struggle on the poverty-level wages they are paid.

In a recent article released in Forbes, As healthcare in America moves from a cottage industry to big business and gets progressively consolidated, regulated, and systematized, the industry has found itself at a crossroads with its customers (i.e., patients). Healthcare has technically always been patient-centric of course but like many business it never really focused on those patients – their unique needs and their relationship with them.

Modern Healthcare recently reported, The CMS is again putting the brakes on an initiative meant to more closely regulate prescribing in the Medicare Part D program.

Two industry leaders join to offer best in class solutions to medical business owners

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.