HIPAA Compliance If you are in the healthcare industry‚ you have probably heard some rumblings about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996‚ coolly referred to as HIPAA. The word is your medical practice will have to be HIPAA compliant by April 2003‚ but you’re not exactly sure what this act mandates or how to accomplish it. In very basic terms‚ HIPAA has two primary components to which hospitals‚ health plans‚ healthcare "clearinghouses‚" and healthcare providers must
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BACKGROUND PAPER ON AGENCY AND EVENTS 1. There were several Freemasons who participated in the drafting of the United States Constitution. It was after the ratification of the constitution that Benjamin Franklin‚ while pointing to a chair‚ was overheard saying‚ "Throughout the days we have been laboring here‚ I have observed that sun‚ and wondered whether it was a rising sun or a setting sun. Now I know it was a rising sun."1 We all heard the stories growing up about the great men that founded
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Course - International Diploma in Compliance Assignment due date - 29th August‚ 2011 Industry - Banking Board Memorandum To : Board of Directors Executive Management Subject : Recommendations to promote the independence of the Compliance Function Date : 29th August‚ 2011 In reviewing last year regulator’ report on our bank‚ the bank have been imposed more than fifteen major violations from the regulators and some of the violations have got the bank into
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DOT audit. They’re nerve-wracking events‚ especially when you’re unprepared‚ but it doesn’t have to be that way. Trucking firms that hire DOT compliance companies are actually relaxed about audits. Why? Because they know that they have a reliable‚ experienced partner in their corner‚ that everything is documented properly‚ and that they’re in full compliance. Reliable‚ Experienced Partner There are a plethora of rules and regulations that a trucking company has to comply with in order to avoid fines
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Eminent Domain Is Wrong By Kevin Gubelman Eminent Domain what is it? What does it mean? Eminent Domain is a concept that could affect anyone who owns property‚ rents property‚ or just has an interest in a particular location. Eminent Domain was a foreign concept to me until‚ the possibility of it becoming a reality to my grandparents. It was then that I started to notice newspaper articles‚ local and national radio and television reports. Okay‚ so exactly what is this Eminent Domain and how could
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Eminent domain is the right of a government to expropriate private property‚ by fiat‚ for what it deems is ‘public purpose’. Historically‚ it has often been subsumed within sovereignty and counted as its attribute. Eminent domain comes from the Latin phrase dominium eminens‚ taken from Hugo Grotius’s legal treatise‚ De Jure Belli et Pacis (on The Law of War and Peace)‚ written in 1625 . It allows the government to transfer or re-allocate private property rights against the payment of ‘just compensation’
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This report focuses on the cognitive‚ personality‚ social and physical domains of aging. To explore these domains‚ three participants aged between 78- 90 years of age‚ were asked a number of guiding questions to explore each domain. These questions allowed participants to discuss their unique experiences. Participant 1‚ Lisa‚ is a 78 year old female. She lives with her husband in their family home. Lisa‚ has nine children‚ 26 grand children and one great grand child. Family plays an important role
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Ethics and Compliance Fin/370 March 18‚ 2013 Ethics and Compliance Ethics is important for any corporation to succeed. Walt Disney Company is no exception. The Disney Company started October 16‚ 1923‚ as The Disney Brothers Studio (The Walt Disney Company‚ n.d.). This was before the Sarbanes-Oxley Act‚ or SOX Act‚ was in existence. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is the one to implement rulings to comply with the laws. In 2011‚ Disney started a cruise line and broke ground on
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Ethics and Compliance FIN/370 Ethics and Compliance Paper Microsoft is a company that was founder by a man named Bill Gates. Bill Gates and a childhood friend Paul Allen “planned to develop software for the newly emerging personal computer market ("About.com"‚ 2012).” This was an idea that was created by two people who forever changed the way the world uses technology in computer systems and some electronic devices around the world. Microsoft is a company that has had
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Ethics and Compliance Paper Matt Itter‚ Sarah Gustafson‚ Shane Bumgardner‚ Tanya Baker‚ Adam Caldwell Fin 370 August 6‚ 2012 Christopher Hernandez Ethics and Compliance Paper Team B has chosen to analyze the annual filings for Lowe’s Companies Inc. In this paper we will go over the last two years of SEC filings for this company and we will analyze the information provided by those reports. Team B will look at the role of ethics and compliance in the company’s financial environment‚ we will
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