What Tax Practitioners Need to Know About Medicare - VIRTUAL

Overview

This course teaches the fundamentals of creating and working with macros in Excel and is designed specifically for those with little experience working with macros. More specifically, taking this course will teach you how to use Excel's Macro Recorder to write simple yet effective macros. You will also learn how to secure and share macros with other Excel users and create user-defined functions to solve specific accountant-centric problems in Excel. Further, you will learn how to create macros that run when a user opens a workbook and VBA basics. Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn how to begin working with macros - one of Excel's most powerful tools.

Prerequisites

An understanding of the tax rules relating to individual income tax

Objectives

• Understand who is eligible for Medicare
• Determine whether an individual will have to pay a surtax for Medicare Part B and Part D coverage
• Ascertain whether private or spousal insurance options are preferable to Medicare

Highlights

• Eligibility for Medicare
• How to apply for Medicare
• Introduction to Parts A, B, C, and D of Medicare
• Payments for Parts B and D of Medicare: the higher costs imposed on higher income beneficiaries
• Late enrollment penalties
• Medicare Advantage in lieu of original Medicare
• The Affordable Care Act's impact on Medicare
• Current and late breaking legislative and regulatory developments