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Accounting for Healthcare & Wellness

For medical and dental practices, clinics, and wellness businesses, we handle practice bookkeeping, revenue-cycle and payroll, entity structuring, retirement-plan design, and proactive tax planning, so you can focus on patients while the numbers stay healthy.




  • Books your bank and buyers can trust




  • Retirement plans that shelter income




  • Proactive tax planning for providers

The Reality of Healthcare & Wellness Finance

Running a practice means managing payroll, reimbursement, and taxes while you care for patients

Revenue Cycle & Cash Flow

Insurance reimbursement lags weeks behind the visit. Without disciplined patient-AR and collections tracking, cash tightens long before the revenue ever arrives.

Provider & Staff Payroll

Associate splits, productivity-based pay, and multi-provider payroll all have to reconcile every cycle. One mismatched formula quietly eats into both margin and morale.

Entity & Buy-In Planning

PC, PLLC, or S-corp elections shape your tax bill. Every partner buy-in or buy-out rests on a credible valuation of the practice you have built.

A Nuanced Tax Position

Equipment depreciation, cost segregation, the QBI limits for health providers, and retirement-plan design each move the tax bill. Handled together, they are where the planning pays off.

How WhippleWood CPAs Makes the Difference

We carry the accounting so your focus stays on patient care. Our team knows healthcare and moves fast without cutting corners:

Industry-fluent team

We speak reimbursement, provider pay, and QBI

Proactive tax planning

Strategies mapped out well before year-end, not after

Retirement plan design

Cash-balance and 401(k) plans that shelter income

Full-service CPAs

Audit, tax, and outsourced CFO under one roof

Awards & Recognition

  • IPA Top 500 Firms
  • Allinial Global Award 2024
  • Outside’s Best Places to Work
  • Allinial Global Logo
  • Women’s Presidents Organization

Comprehensive Healthcare & Wellness Accounting Services

  • Financial statement preparation
  • Reconciliations and transaction coding
  • AP/AR and patient-billing oversight
  • Owner and board reporting
  • QuickBooks optimization


From Chaos to Clarity in 30 Days

Our onboarding sprint builds your practice-accounting structure, controls, and partner-level visibility in phases. Your team isn’t overwhelmed, and leadership gets clean numbers fast.

Week 1–2

Discovery

We benchmark your current close, then map the revenue cycle and payroll to find what is blocking timely, accurate reporting.

Week 3–4

Foundation

Next, we rebuild the chart of accounts and automate reconciliations, then stand up revenue-cycle and provider-pay tracking that holds up under scrutiny.

Month 2+

Partnership

From there we run as your steady-state finance team: rolling forecasts, KPI dashboards, and early alerts on tax and compliance.

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Meet Your Healthcare & Wellness Accounting Experts

Experienced CPAs dedicated to supporting healthcare and wellness practices

Rick Whipple, CEO

Rick Whipple

CEO, CPA

Co-founded WhippleWood CPAs in 1981 with over 40 years of experience. Passionate advocate for small businesses and nonprofits.

CPA License: CO #5486 · Masters in Tax Law, University of Denver

Mitch Clark, Partner

Mitch Clark

Partner, Tax Services

Entrepreneurial CPA who joined in 2012. Focuses on communicating complex tax and business issues clearly to clients.

CPA License: CO #9035367 · BS Accounting & Finance, Indiana University

Common Questions About Our Healthcare & Wellness Accounting Services

We work with medical and dental practices, specialty clinics, therapy and wellness businesses, and health-and-wellness franchisees throughout Colorado.

Our clients range from solo practitioners and single-location startups to multi-provider groups and expanding franchise operators.

Whatever the size, we build the engagement around how your practice actually runs, from payer mix to provider compensation to growth plans, so the accounting supports the business rather than getting in its way.

Yes. Proactive tax planning is central to how we work, and for practices it starts with the right entity structure. The choice among a professional corporation, PLLC, or S-corp election shapes how owner income is taxed.

From there we look at equipment purchases, where Section 179 expensing and bonus depreciation can accelerate the write-off on chairs, imaging, and other capital assets, and at cost segregation when you own your building.

We also plan around the qualified business income deduction under Section 199A, which is limited for many higher-income health providers, and pair it with retirement-plan strategies that shelter income.

We map these moves out with time to spare before year-end, while there is still room to act on them.

Reimbursement timing is one of the biggest differences between healthcare and other businesses, so we build the accounting around it.

We track patient accounts receivable and collections, reconcile insurance and third-party payments against what was billed, and give you visibility into how long revenue takes to convert to cash.

We report performance by payer and, where it helps, by location or provider, so you can see where cash is getting stuck and where the practice is actually earning its margin.

We focus on the accounting and financial reporting side of the revenue cycle; we coordinate with your billing team or clearinghouse rather than replacing them.

For profitable practices, retirement plans are one of the most effective ways to defer tax while building long-term wealth for the owners.

We help design and account for 401(k) and profit-sharing plans, and for higher-earning owners we model cash-balance and defined-benefit plans, which allow substantially larger contributions than a 401(k) alone.

We also coordinate health savings account and flexible spending account strategies where they fit the owners and the team.

We handle the accounting, contribution modeling, and tax coordination, and we work alongside your financial advisor and third-party administrator on plan investments and formal plan administration.

Partner buy-ins and buy-outs are some of the highest-stakes financial events in a practice’s life, and they turn on a defensible valuation.

We prepare practice valuations, model the tax impact of the transaction for both the incoming and outgoing owners, and help structure the payment terms so the deal works for the practice’s cash flow.

We build the financial picture and tax analysis that support the decision, and we work with your attorney on the legal agreements rather than providing legal advice ourselves.

Yes. We work with QuickBooks and other common accounting platforms and coordinate with the practice-management and billing systems you already use.

Our aim is a clean flow of data from where visits are booked and billed into your general ledger, so financial statements reflect reality without hours of manual re-entry.

If your current setup is held together by spreadsheets or outdated tools, we can help you transition to more reliable systems without losing your history, and we train your team on the reporting that keeps everyone aligned.

Free Financial Resources

Explore our library of financial reporting and tax planning resources.

Ready to Put Your Practice on Healthier Footing?

Let’s discuss how WhippleWood CPAs can strengthen the numbers behind the care you provide.

Questions? info@whipplewood.com | 303-989-7600