Emerging Issues: Medical Device Excise Tax Explored

Katherine Parrish, Tax Director at BSI Healthcare Audit Services, heads up the tax compliance and recovery division. Ms. Parrish provides multi-jurisdictional tax services with a focus on California taxpayers. She specializes in transaction tax recovery and other tax issues impacting the healthcare industry.

Ms. Parrish lectures on multi-state tax issues and is a member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation.

Prior to joining BSI Healthcare Audit Services, Ms. Parrish worked several years at an internationally recognized tax services firm based in their San Francisco, California office.

Julius W. Hobson, Jr., is Senior Policy Advisor at Polsinelli Shughart PC, where he provides policy advice and lobbies on behalf of clients. His primary issue areas are health (physician, hospitals and long term care), transportation, budget and appropriations, financial services, and municipal affairs. Prior to joining a law firm, Hobson lobbied for the American Medical Association (AMA) for over 13 years, the last 8 as chief congressional lobbyist. Mr. Hobson has worked in both the House and Senate and handled congressional and federal affairs for both the District of Columbia government and Howard University. He is also an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Political Management, George Washington University, where he has been teaching the graduate course on lobbying since 1994. He is a graduate of Howard University (BA, History) and GWU (MA, Legislative Affairs). Mr. Hobson is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society National Capital Chapter.