IsabellaG
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No, this is a special incentive payment for "meaningful use of electronic health records", not compensation for services rendered. Your employer (the hospital) didn't pay you, the clinic did. It's reported in Box 3 for "Other Income". 

 

To report this 1099-MISC in TurboTax, enter the 1099-MISC, describe the payment as an incentive award, continue to say that it's not for work that's like your main job, that you only got it in 2018, and that it did not involve an attempt to make money. 

 

The income will be correctly reported as "Other Income" on your return, and you won't have to file a Schedule C.

 

 

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