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UtiCA — ConMed Corp. (nASdAQ: CnMd), a Utica–based surgical-device manufacturer, has added two health-care executives to its board of directors.

the addition of david Bronson and John Workman are “effective immediately,” ConMed said in a news release issued July 1.

Bronson is currently director and audit-committee chair of Lenexa, Kansas–based AxelaCare, inc. and a director and a member of the audit committee of Louisville, Kentucky–based Labsco, inc. (Laboratory Supply Co.).

Bronson previously was executive vice presi-dent and Cfo of Jacksonville, florida–based PSS World Medical, inc. from 2002 until McKesson Corp. acquired the firm in 2013, ConMed said.

Workman is currently board chairman and audit-committee chair of Minneapolis, Minnesota–based Universal hospital Services

and a director and audit-committee chair of oak Brook, illinois–based federal Signal Corp. (nYSE: fSS), according to the ConMed news release.

he previously was CEo of Cincinnati, ohio–based omnicare, inc. (nYSE: oCr) from 2012

to 2014, president and Cfo from 2011 to 2012, and executive vice president and Cfo from 2009 to 2010.

Mark tryniski, chair-man of the ConMed board of directors, called Bronson and Workman “outstanding additions” to the board.

“they both have extensive experience lead-ing sophisticated health care organizations, executing successful turnarounds, and improv-ing shareholder returns. their impressive track records will make them vital contributors in guiding ConMed’s growth strategy,” tryniski said in the release.

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CLAY — St. Joseph’s hospital Janus Park Sleep Laboratory in Clay recently received program ac-creditation from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM).

“the American Academy of Sleep Medicine congratulates St. Joseph’s hospital Janus Park Sleep Laboratory on meeting the high stan-dards required for receiv-ing accreditation as a sleep disorders center,” dr. nathaniel Watson, AASM president, said in a news release that St. Joseph’s issued July 27. ”St. Joseph’s Sleep Laboratory is an impor-tant resource to the local medical community and will provide academic and scientific value in addition to the highest quality care for patients suffering from sleep disorders.”

to receive accreditation for a five-year period,

a sleep center must meet or exceed all standards for professional health care as designated by the AASM. these standards address core areas such

as personnel, facility and equipment, poli-cies and procedures, data acquisition,

patient care, and quality assurance. Additionally, the sleep center’s

goals must be clearly stated and include plans for positively af-fecting the quality of medical care in the community it serves, the release stated.

the American Academy of Sleep Medicine says it started ac-

crediting sleep disorders centers in 1977. today, there are more than

2,500 AASM-accredited sleep centers across the United States.

St. Joseph’s hospital Janus Park Sleep Laboratory is part of St. Joseph’s health, a nonprofit regional health-care system based in Syracuse, providing services to patients through-out Central new York and northern Pennsylvania.

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BINGHAMTON — SUNY Broome Community College will use additional state-grant funding for its free, online course on home care to make the course available in an “on-demand” format.

The course, titled “Foundations for Assisting in Home Care,” provides in-struction about how to better care for homebound patients and family mem-bers.

The grant, which totals up to $20,000, was part of more than $600,000 in Innovative Instruction Technology Grant (IITG) awards that the SUNY system announced in a news release issued June 23.

IITGs fund technology-driven campus “innovations and initiatives that have the potential to be replicated throughout SUNY.”

SUNY Broome used the first part of the grant to build the foundations course, says Erin O’Hara-Leslie, chairperson of medical assisting and health stud-ies at SUNY Broome. She spoke with HealthCare Provider on July 27.

SUNY Broome based the course’s content on the New York State Department of Health’s home-care curriculum, or home and communi-ty-based services, she says.

The course teaches students “all of the skills” for home-health aid and per-sonal-care aid. “So, understanding what the field is about and [how] you would work and care for patients,” says O’Hara-Leslie.

Students taking the course will not earn a certification to work in home care,

but those completing course will have an understanding of what the field is about, she contends.

SUNY Broome will also use the grant to work with the Cortland–based Central New York Area Health Education Center to help connect students with home health-care agencies to obtain certifica-tion. “So we can send them to different programs where they can actually get a certificate to do this,” says O’Hara-Leslie.

She calls it a “huge piece” of this new grant funding.

The courseThe grant represents the second phase

of funding SUNY Broome is using for “continued development” of this course.

“It is permitting us to convert the cur-rent content to an on-demand format,” says O’Hara-Leslie.

With an on-demand format, people can go into the course and register, begin, and complete the course “at any time,” meaning the course has no end date.

SUNY Broome on June 29 opened the course, a 12-week module, for the first time, and it will close Sept. 20, she says.

The school will next offer the course in the on-demand for-mat in 2016.

The on-de-mand platform for the course may take “a year” to build, O’Hara-Leslie says.

She refers to it as the “Netflix” version of education, noting a student can “binge educate” him or herself, if they prefer.

SUNY Broome will also use the funding to create a “companion open-educational resource,” which is an open textbook, she adds.

SUNY Broome offers the online course

through Mountainview, California–based Coursera Inc., with which Open SUNY partners.

Coursera is a for-profit educational-technology company. Coursera describes itself as an “education platform that part-ners with top universities and organiza-tions worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free,” according to its website.

Open SUNY is a SUNY-wide c o l l a b o r a t i o n that allows stu-dents to “access the courses, degrees, profes-sors, and rich academics of all 64 SUNY cam-puses flexibly,” according to the website for Open SUNY.

Anyone, stu-dents or non-students, can participate in the course, which doesn’t have any “entry require-ments,” says O’Hara-Leslie.

She calls it “student owner-ship of learning.”

“Students can learn at their own pace. It’s accessible. It’s free and it really meets the needs of numerous stu-dents because there’s no [re-quired courses] that they have to have … to take this,” says O’Hara-Leslie.

The number of students who can take the course is “unlimited,” she says.

Dr. Andrea Wade is the course instructor. Wade previously worked at SUNY Broome but has since moved on to Monroe Community College (MCC), where she is now provost and vice president of aca-demic services, according to the MCC website. n

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T he Health Foundation for Western & Central New York has awarded fellowships to 40 Upstate health-

care professionals, including a dozen in Central New York.

Now in its sixth edition, the nonprofit’s health-leadership fellows program seeks to produce a “network of diverse, highly-skilled leaders that will learn to lead collaboratively from both within and out-side of their organizations,” the Health Foundation said in a recent news release.

The Health Foundation for Western & Central New York seeks to foster positive change in health and health care

across Western and Central New York, with a focus on young children, vulner-able older adults, and the systems serv-ing them, according to the release. The Buffalo–based organization also operates a Syracuse office at the Central New York Philanthropy Center at 431 E. Fayette St.

The 40 fellows “become advocates for improved health-care delivery, par-ticularly for vulnerable older adults and

children impacted by poverty,” the foun-dation contends.

“Through the health-leadership fel-lows program, we can bring leaders from all facets of the health care and human-services community together to learn collaboratively, share best practices and develop new and innovative ways to im-prove the health of the people living in our region,” Ann Monroe, president of the Health Foundation, said in the release.

The 18-month program for fellows in-cludes sessions on personal leadership, results-based leadership, leading change, and communicating as a leader.

In addition to four residential sessions, each spanning two to three days, fellows

will meet monthly and de-velop a “collaborative, inter-organizational” project in small teams.

The program also pro-vides executive coaching

for each fellow, as well as access to the fellows’ website and learning materials, the Health Foundation said.

Members of the 2015 class join 214 other health-leadership fellows who have participated in the program since it began in 2005.

The Health Foundation selected the fellows through an application pro-cess. A committee that included Health

Foundation board members and other local professionals in leadership and health care made the selections.

Selection criteria included leadership ability, the support of the nominee’s orga-nization, and the potential benefit of the program to the applicant’s organization and community, the release stated. n


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The 2015-2017 Central New York fellows include:n Chima Chionuma, medical direc-

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Work begins on UHS Comprehensive Orthopedic Center

Crews started the demolition work on the site of the former Van Atta car dealer-ship about five weeks ago, says Danielle Donlin, UHS program director for muscu-loskeletal services. She spoke to CNYBJ on July 17.

UHS expects the 68,000-square-foot Comprehensive Orthopedic Center, which crews will build adjacent to UHS Vestal, to open in late 2016, the organization said in a news release issued June 24.

Regional, technological, and industry trends are driving the need for such a facil-ity in the area.

“Our region’s aging population, coupled with technologic[al] advancements and minimally invasive surgical techniques, results in a growing need for orthopedic and similar services in the Southern Tier,” Matthew Salanger, president and CEO of

UHS, said in the release. Binghamton–based UHS, which is

short for United Health Services, is the third largest health system in Central New York, according to the 2015 Book of Lists.

The New York State Department of Health found UHS’ evidence of public need for the new orthopedic center “com-pelling” and “quickly” approved its cer-tificate of need, or application, necessary to launch the project, according to the release.

“It’s a fairly large process. It probably had to do with the market and the growth of our current practices and how there’s no more room for expansion and it’s on-site,” says Donlin.

The Town of Vestal approved the proj-


VESTAL — Construction-site work on the planned $30 million UHS Comprehensive Orthopedic Center is underway at 4433 State Route 434 (the Vestal Parkway) in Vestal.

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Surgical-device maker ConMed’s profit slips in Q2

The firm’s net earnings per share of 27 cents also declined 27 percent, compared to 37 cents in the prior-year quarter.

ConMed’s reported net earnings included restructuring costs in 2015 and 2014, as well as charges for a pat-ent dispute and shareholder activism in 2014, the company said in its earn-ings news release issued July 21.

Excluding the impact of the re-structuring costs and charges, ConMed’s adjusted net earnings of $9.9 million decreased 23.5 percent year over year, and its adjusted dilut-ed net earnings per share of 36 cents declined 23.4 percent year over year.

ConMed generated total revenue of $181 million in the second quar-ter, down 3.8 percent compared to the second quarter of 2014. But, adjusting for currency fluctuations, sales decreased only 0.4 percent, the company noted.

Its domestic sales, which repre-sented 49.2 percent of total revenue, increased 1.9 percent, driven by growth in capital-equipment sales. International sales, which represent-ed 50.8 percent of total revenue, declined 8.7 percent compared to the second quarter of 2014 on a reported basis, ConMed said.

Breaking down sales along busi-ness lines, orthopedic surgery sales fell 5.4 percent to $96.8 million in this year’s second quarter from a year ago and surgical visualization sales declined 12.8 percent to $13.1 million, but general surgery sales in-creased 0.5 percent to $71.1 million, according to the earnings report. Adjusting for currency changes, the company said general surgery sales rose 2.3 percent — led by growth in advanced surgical and critical care


UTICA — ConMed Corp. (NASDAQ: CNMD), a Utica–based surgical-device maker, reported net earnings of $7.5 million in the second quarter, down 27 percent from $10.3 million in the year-ago period, as its revenue fell and it faced restructuring costs.

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SOS opens Camillus office for orthopedic and sports-therapy groupFills a “huge need on the west side of Syracuse,” Dr. John Fatti says.


CAMILLUS — Syracuse Orthopedic Specialists, PC (SOS) on July 13 opened a 6,000-square-foot office for its orthopedic and sports-therapy group (OST) at 5417 West Genesee St. in Camillus.

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SOS is a tenant in the building that New York Spine & Wellness Center built on that property, says Dr. John Fatti, president of SOS.

He spoke with HealthCare Provider on July 27.

Fatti refers to SOS’s relationship with the New York Spine & Wellness Center as “partners in arms.”

“We do a lot of work together,” he adds, noting SOS sends New York Spine & Wellness “a lot” of patients.

SOS also operates a nearby location in Medical Center West at 5700 W. Genesee St. in Camillus.

SOS sought space for the OST group be-cause of a “huge need on the west side of Syracuse” where the company gets physi-cian referrals, says Fatti.

“It’s so much nicer for patients to actu-ally go to their physical therapy, which they have to do, two to three times a week, if it’s near their home,” he adds.

SOS started thinking about a western-suburbs location for the OST group in late 2014.

As SOS began searching for space, it consulted with the New York Spine & Wellness Center, which indicated that it

would have “significant extra square foot-age” in the facility it was building at 5417 W. Genesee St. in Camillus.

“It presented itself out of the blue,” Fatti recalls of the promising option.

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group also focuses on sports medicine.

The group seeks to help a patient “re-duce and eliminate” pain, regain range of motion and strength, and improve “overall functional ability,” according to a news release announcing

the Camillus location issued July 6. The new Camillus OST location will ini-

tially include two physical therapists and two front-office employees, the organiza-tion said in its email response. SOS will add physical therapists and physical-ther-apy assistants as “as business grows.”

SOS will use existing staff members to begin operations at the Camillus location. The organization will hire additional staff

as needed, it said. Founded in 1999, DeWitt–based

Syracuse Orthopedic Specialists has more than 25 physicians and employs about 600 additional staff members.

It operates offices in locations that include Auburn, Lysander, Camillus, Cicero, Clay, DeWitt, Manlius, and Onondaga.

SOS also operates the offices of the or-thopedic and sports-therapy group, along with the Specialists One Day Surgery Center in Syracuse.

The organization also operates SOS Plus, its after-hours care center, with loca-tions in DeWitt and Onondaga. n

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T he U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently

released a “fraud alert,” warning physi-cians and other health-care providers that physician-compensation arrange-ments may result in significant liability if those arrangements do not reflect fair market value for bona-fide services the physicians actually provide.

The impetus for the alert was the OIG’s recent settlements with 12 individual phy-sicians who entered into improper medical directorship and office-staff arrangements. Although the OIG did not name the 12 physicians in the alert, the settlements are posted on the OIG’s website.

The settlements, ranging from $50,000 to nearly $200,000, involve compensation arrangements with Fairmont Diagnostic Center and Open MRI in Texas. The OIG alleged that the compensation paid to the physicians under the medical-direc-tor arrangements constituted improper remuneration under the anti-kickback statute. In addition, the OIG alleged that some of the physicians entered into ar-rangements where Fairmont Diagnostic Center paid the salaries of the physi-cians’ office staff. The OIG alleged that paying the salary of a physician’s office staff relieves the physician of a financial burden that he/she would otherwise have incurred and thus constitutes im-proper remuneration.

The federal anti-kickback statute prohibits offering, paying, soliciting, or receiving anything of value to induce or reward referrals or generate federal health-care program business. A convic-tion for the violation of the anti-kickback statute is a felony and can result in a fine, up to five years imprisonment, and mandatory exclusion from participation

in federal health-care programs.It is clear from the alert that the OIG

is increasing its investigation and pros-ecution of improper medical-director arrangements between physicians and health-care providers. It is important for physicians to remember that a com-pensation arrangement may violate the federal anti-kickback statute if even one purpose of the arrangement is to com-pensate a physician for his/her past or future referrals of federal health-care program business. And, almost any ben-efit by and between medical providers can be considered remuneration.

Because the anti-kickback statute is so broad, certain “safe harbors” were pro-mulgated that describe various payment and business practices that, although they potentially implicate the federal anti-kickback statute, are not treated as of-fenses under the statute. One safe harbor is for personal services and management contracts. Therefore, if a medical-direc-torship arrangement meets all the per-sonal services safe-harbor requirements, the arrangement would not be subject to criminal or civil prosecution under the anti-kickback statute.

The personal services and manage-ment contracts safe harbor includes the following requirements: n The agreement must be in writing

and signed by both parties n The term of the agreement must be

for at least one yearn It must cover all of the services

the physician provides to the health-care provider for the term of the agreement and specify the services to be provided by the physiciann If the agreement does not contem-

plate the services of the physician on a full-time basis, the agreement must

specify the exact schedule of inter-vals, their precise length, and the exact charge for such intervalsn The aggre-

gate compensation paid to the physi-cian over the term of the agreement must be set in advance, consistent with fair market value in arms-length transac-tions, and not determined in a manner that takes into account the volume or value of any referrals or business oth-erwise generated between the parties for which payment may be made under Medicare, Medicaid, or other federal health-care programsn The arrangement must serve a com-

mercially reasonable business purposeMedical directors are often important

referral sources for health-care provid-ers. In light of the increase in enforce-ment activity, physicians should carefully review the terms and conditions of any medical-directorship arrangement be-fore entering into such an agreement. Although an arrangement that falls out-side the personal services and man-agement contracts safe harbor is not necessarily illegal, meeting the above safe-harbor requirements will ensure the arrangement is not subject to civil and criminal prosecution under the anti-kick-back statute. n

Maureen Dunn McGlynn is an attorney with the law firm Cohen Compagni Beckman Appler & Knoll, PLLC in Syracuse. She concentrates her practice on representing clients in the health-care industry. Contact McGlynn at [email protected]


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The sleep center is under the medical di-rection of Sherif G. El Bayadi, M.D., diplomat of the American Board of Sleep Medicine. Bayadi specializes in pulmonary critical care and sleep medicine. “We utilize the latest in equipment and medical knowledge to always

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NOTEPACE CNY – Loretto Geriatric Center Licensed Home Care Agency (#4) did not respond with updated information this year.

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cny family care

PAMELA WILSON-KRAUS was promoted to chief operating officer at CNY Family Care, LLP (CNYFC). She is a registered nurse with more than 20 years of management experi-ence. She joined CNYFC in 2002 as director of nursing. LISA CAVALLO was promoted to director of nursing. She started with CNYFC in 2004 as a clinical medical as-sistant. Cavallo earned her LPN license and is currently pursuing her RN license. JESSICA LE recently joined CNYFC. She was previously a registered nurse at St. Joseph’s Hospital for five years. Le received her master’s degree from Upstate Medical University, focusing on becoming a family nurse practitioner. KEVIN J. SMITH recently joined CNYFC. He received a bachelor’s degree from Le Moyne College in 2011 and completed the physician-assistant studies program there in August 2013. Smith worked in a position providing prompt care, prior to joining CNYFC. STACEY M. COOK has joined CNYFC. She re-ceived her bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College in 2006 and her master’s degree in physician-assistant stud-ies from Upstate Medical University in 2014.

crouse hospital

Crouse Hospital has named MICKEY LEBOWITZ, M.D., vice president of medical affairs and clinical quality. A board-certified internist and endocrinologist, he joined Crouse in 2010 as senior medical quality di-

rector. Lebowitz was pre-viously a hospitalist at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Syracuse. He’s worked in private practice and then became the founder and director of the Crouse Diabetes and Endocrine Center. In 2009, he released his first book, “Losing My Patience: Why I Quit the Medical Game.” Lebowitz earned his medical degree from SUNY Upstate Medical University, where he also completed his internal medicine training, chief residency, and endocrine and diabetes fellowship.

loretto

Loretto announced that TYLER DORHOLT has joined the organization as the new executive assistant to the president’s office. He has several years of experience in the New York City area, where he served as executive assistant for the CEO of Prosek Partners, the editor in chief of xoJane (at Say Media), and most recently with the vice chair of GOJO Industries. This past year, he taught both academic and professional writing at Syracuse University and is a pub-lished writer and photographer.

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care providers

The New York State Association of Health Care Providers (HCP) has promoted MEGAN TANGJERD to director for public policy. She joined HCP in 2012 as an associate for public policy, and most recently served as senior associate for public policy. She has worked on important issues that affect home and community-based care providers. Prior to HCP, Tangjerd was association manager at the Association Development Group, Inc. in Albany, where she provided organizational and project-management services to several associations including the New York Public Transit Association, Inc., the New York State Dietetic Association, and the Professional Photographers’ Society of New York State, Inc. She earned a master’s degree in pub-lic administration (MPA) from Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy in Albany, and a bachelor’s degree from SUNY Albany.

oswego health

TIMOTHY TRAMONTANA, M.D. has joined Oswego Health and will be providing prima-ry care in Central Square at the Primecare Medical Practice. He is a family medicine physician, who is also a lipidologist cer-tified by the American Board of Clinical Lipidology, allowing him to treat cholesterol abnor-malities. Tramontana earned his medical de-gree from Ross University in Dominica, West Indies. He completed his residency at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Syracuse, where he was chief resident for the family medicine pro-gram. Since completing the program, he has been providing primary care in the Syracuse area. Tramontana earned his undergraduate degree from Nazareth College.

st. joseph’s physicians

St. Joseph’s Physicians has appointed JULIANNE DUFFY HIMES chief operating officer. As director of clinical operations, she was responsible for overseeing clinical oper-ations for St. Joseph’s Physicians and served in a leadership role as SJLinked’s director of Ambulatory EMR Implementation. Prior to joining St. Joseph’s, Duffy worked as a physician assistant in emergency medicine for Crouse Hospital, as well as a physician assistant in general surgery for St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center. She was an adjunct instructor in the department of Physician Assistant Studies at Le Moyne College from May 2011 to August 2013. A graduate of Le Moyne College, Duffy earned a bachelor’s degree in biology and a master’s degree in physician assistant studies. She plans to continue practicing as a physician assistant. ANITA GOFRAN, M.D. has joined St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center as hospitalist. She earned her doctorate in medicine from Howard University in Washington, D.C. and her bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in New York. Gofran completed her internal-medicine residency and renal fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Prior to joining St. Joseph’s, she spent eight years in private practice as a nephrologist. She is board-certified in internal medicine and nephrology. n

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ect at its March planning-committee meeting.

About the centerThe UHS Comprehensive Orthopedic

Center will house UHS’ medical programs in orthopedics, podiatry, chiropractic, rheumatology, and physical therapy, ac-cording to the UHS news release.

Each of those services will relocate from another UHS site to make the new location its home.

UHS said it has designed the new facil-ity to accommodate “significant” growth and to allow for the recruitment of ad-ditional health-care providers.

The new building will also house the

Binghamton area’s largest sports-med-icine practice, UHS said. It will feature areas for post-surgical strength condi-tioning and a concussion program spe-cifically related to sports injuries.

The new orthopedic center will employ more than 125 people, including provid-ers and staff, and will create at least 15 new jobs once it opens, UHS said.

It expects the facility to record 125,000 outpatient visits per year.

UHS is designing and building the Comprehensive Orthopedic Center to “complement” its Vestal complex next door, creating an outpatient campus that hosts a number of UHS medical pro-grams at one, “centralized” location, the

organization said. Architecturally, the new building

will be a “companion” to the UHS Vestal structure. Chianis + Anderson Architects, PLLC designed the Comprehensive Orthopedic Center, while LeChase Construction is the con-tractor on the project, says Donlin.

UHS is a locally owned, nonprofit, 916-bed hospital and health-care system serv-ing Greater Binghamton and surrounding counties.

Founded in 1981, UHS provides medi-cal, surgical, rehabilitative, and long-term care services from more than 60 locations around New York’s Southern Tier. n

UHS: Company says it has designed the facility to accommodate “significant” growth Continued from page 6

products but offset by a decline in endo-scopic technologies.

“I am encouraged by the progress we have made throughout our commercial organization, and we exited the second quarter with positive momentum across our business. We are well positioned for accelerating growth in the second half and, importantly, remain on track to achieve our full year financial guidance,” Curt Hartman, president and CEO of ConMed, said in its news release.

The Utica–based firm also reiterated its constant-currency sales guidance, which calls for organic sales growth in 2015 in the range of 1 percent to 3 percent.

Using current exchange rates, ConMed continues to anticipate that re-ported sales for 2015 will be in the range of $723 million to $738 million and that adjusted diluted net earnings per share will be in the range of $1.82 to $1.92.

ConMed manufactures surgical de-vices and equipment for minimally in-

vasive procedures. The firm says its products are used by surgeons and physicians in a variety of specialties, in-cluding orthopedics, general surgery, gynecology, neurosurgery, and gastro-enterology.

The company has a direct selling pres-ence in 16 countries outside the U.S., and international sales make up more than half of its total sales.

ConMed employs 3,400 people, ac-cording to its news release. n

CONMED: It manufactures surgical devices and equipment for minimally invasive procedures Continued from page 7

Is your family taking advantage of the New York State Nursing Home Assessment Credit?

N ew York Public Health Law 2807- d(2)(b) imposes an assessment on New York residential health-

care facilities of 6 percent of the receipts of the residential health-care facility. In most cases, the nursing homes pass on

this assessment to the residents. This charge is shown as a separate line item on the nursing home monthly bill.

Utilizing New York State tax form IT-258, individu-als may claim a full credit on their state income-tax return for the amounts di-

rectly paid to the facility for this assess-ment. An individual may claim the full credit for the amounts directly paid even if the resident may be receiving benefits from a long-term care insurance policy. Residents may also claim this credit if they assign their long-term care insur-ance benefits to the nursing home.

The credit is not available if the assess-ment is paid through private health insur-ance, with public funds (such as Medicaid) or by a trust or other entity.

If an individual (such as a family mem-ber) other than the resident is actually paying the assessment, the individual who paid the assessment, not the resident, is entitled to claim the credit. The credit amount can be significant. Nursing homes often cost upwards of $100,000 a year and

more. The credit on the assessment on a $100,000-a-year payment would be $6,000. This is a direct income-tax credit for the person who pays the nursing-home as-sessment. The credit can also be refund-able for people who do not have a New York State income-tax liability. n

Ami S. Longstreet is a partner at the Syracuse–based law firm Mackenzie Hughes. This article is drawn from the firm’s Plain Talk blog. Longstreet works with businesses and individuals to help them understand estate and trust plan-ning and administration as well as elder law, including asset protection and Medicaid planning, and planning for in-dividuals with disabilities. Contact her at: [email protected]

AMI S. LONGSTREET

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