Sentences with phrase «on behalf of a business entity»

If you are opening an account on behalf of a business entity, documents relating to the business may also be requested.

Client uses one or more email addresses from a free email service (e.g., Gmail ™, MSN ®, Yahoo! ®) when the matter is on behalf of a business entity that you expect would have its own email address.

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Services are available only to individuals who are at least 13 years old, whether acting on their own behalf or as an authorized employee or representative of a corporation or other business entity.

When the buyer of a firearm is a corporation, company, association, partnership, or other such business entity, an officer authorized to act on behalf of the business must complete Section A of the form with his or her personal information, sign Section A, and attach a written statement, executed under penalties of perjury, stating: (A) the firearm is being acquired for the use of and will be the property of that business entity and (B) the name and address of that business entity.

Robert Barrack dedicates his practice to complex construction and commercial litigation and appeals, including contractual disputes, professional negligence, surety bond claims, subrogation claims, mechanics» liens, business torts, unfair trade practices, bad faith claims, product liability, and real property disputes, as well as construction transactions, on behalf of businesses, public entities, educational institutions, and individuals.

ramifications of choosing one form of business entity over another (partnership, say, over a corporate form), or a Realtor from helping a buyer or seller fill out listing or offer forms, or anyone who is not a lawyer from negotiating on another's behalf pretty much any kind of legally binding agreement whatsoever.

Both Deborah Dixon and Robert Chambers have significant experience litigating complex, multi-party lawsuits against entities and insurance companies on behalf of individuals and businesses.

Business associates are individuals or organizations that perform certain services involving the use of protected health information on behalf of a HIPAA - covered entity.

In the firm's trial practice, they have represented manufacturers and sellers of industrial, commercial and consumer products; property and business owners and contractors; nationally known retail chains; bus and trucking companies and those in the logistics business; financial entities and pursue creditor's rights; insurers in coverage actions and prosecute declaratory judgment actions on their behalf.

Unlike law firms, which operate as revenue - raising profit centers, corporate legal departments are cost centers, spending corporate dollars to defend lawsuits filed against the company, negotiate business transactions and perform a wide range of legal services on behalf of the parent corporation and its business entities.

Experienced with both big business and small public entities, Bill offers practical solutions when acting on behalf of employers for certification issues, collective bargaining, grievance and interest arbitration and employment standards.

Response: Collection agencies and case managers are business associates to the extent that they provide specified services to or perform functions or activities on behalf of a covered entity.

However, a device manufacturer that does not provide «health care» must be a business associate of a covered entity if that manufacturer receives or creates protected health information in the performance of functions or activities on behalf of, or the provision of specified services to, a covered entity.

(H) Make its internal practices, books, and records relating to the use and disclosure of protected health information received from, or created or received by the business associate on behalf of, the covered entity available to the Secretary for purposes of determining the covered entity's compliance with this subpart; and

(D) Ensure that any agents, including a subcontractor, to whom it provides protected health information received from, or created or received by the business associate on behalf of, the covered entity agrees to the same restrictions and conditions that apply to the business associate with respect to such information;

We note that there may be other instances in which a business associate may combine or aggregate protected health information received in its capacity as a business associate of different covered entities, such as when it is performing health care operations on behalf of covered entities that participate in an organized health care arrangement.

(2) A covered entity participating in an organized health care arrangement that performs a function or activity as described by paragraph (1)(i) of this definition for or on behalf of such organized health care arrangement, or that provides a service as described in paragraph (1)(ii) of this definition to or for such organized health care arrangement, does not, simply through the performance of such function or activity or the provision of such service, Start Printed Page 82799become a business associate of other covered entities participating in such organized health care arrangement.

Similarly, authorizations requested by a business associate on behalf of a covered entity to accomplish the disclosure of protected health information to that business associate or covered entity as described in § 164.508 (e) must meet the requirements of that provision.

We do not consider a financial institution to be acting on behalf of a covered entity, and therefore no business associate contract is required, when it processes consumer - conducted financial transactions by debit, credit or other payment card, clears checks, initiates or processes electronic funds transfers, or conducts any other activity that directly facilitates or effects the transfer of funds for compensation for health care.

For example, a business associate performing a function under health care operations on behalf of an organized health care arrangement would be permitted to combine or aggregate the protected health information obtained from covered entities participating in the arrangement to the extent necessary to carry out the authorized activity and in conformance with its business associate contracts.

A covered entity that is undertaking payment activities on behalf of different covered entities also may use or disclose protected health information obtained as a business associate of one covered entity when undertaking such activities as a business associate of another covered entity where the covered entities have authorized the activities and where they are necessary to secure payment for the entities.

Various successful collections on accounts receivable on behalf of various business entities, including a national laboratory performing blood testing.

However, if the same provider maintains an account through which he / she cashes checks from patients, no business associate contract would be necessary because the bank's activities are not undertaken for or on behalf of the covered entity, and fall within the scope of section 1179.

(ii) If a business associate is required by law to perform a function or activity on behalf of a covered entity or to provide a service described in the definition of business associate in § 160.103 of this subchapter to a covered entity, such covered entity may disclose protected health information to the business associate to the extent necessary to comply with the legal mandate without meeting the requirements of this paragraph (e), provided that the covered entity attempts in good faith to obtain satisfactory assurances as required by paragraph (e)(3)(i) of this section, and, if such attempt fails, documents the attempt and the reasons that such assurances can not be obtained.

Response: To the extent that a disease or case manager provides services on behalf of or to a covered entity as described in the rule's definition of business associate, the disease or case manager is a business associate for purposes of this rule.

The mere provision of software to a covered entity would not appear to give rise to a business associate relationship, although if the vendor needs access to the protected health information of the covered entity to assist with data management or to perform functions or activities on the covered entity's behalf, the vendor would be a business associate.

These oversight agencies are not performing services for or on behalf of the covered entities and so are not business associates of the covered entities.

We note that we do not consider a financial institution to be acting on behalf of a covered entity, and therefore no business associate contract is required, when it processes consumer - conducted financial transactions by debit, credit or other payment card, Start Printed Page 82505clears checks, initiates or processes electronic funds transfers, or conducts any other activity that directly facilitates or effects the transfer of funds for compensation for health care.

The changes clarify that the business association occurs when the right to use or disclose the protected health information belongs to the covered entity, and another person is using or disclosing the protected health information (or creating, obtaining and using the protected health information) to perform a function or activity on behalf of the covered entity.

We note that, where a covered entity is acting as a business associate of another covered entity, the business associate covered entity is acting for or on behalf of the principal covered entity, and its actions for or on behalf of the principal covered entity are authorized by the consent obtained by the principal covered entity.

Response: As stated in § 164.504 (e)(2), business associates are acting on behalf of, or performing services for, the covered entity and may not, with two narrow exceptions, use or disclose protected health information in a manner that would violate this rule if done by the covered entity.

We proposed to define the term «business partner» to mean, with respect to a covered entity, a person to whom the covered entity discloses protected health information so that the person can carry out, assist with the performance of, or perform on behalf of, a function or activity for the covered entity.

These changes, however, do not permit a covered entity to disclose protected health information to third parties for marketing (other than to a business associate to make a marketing communication on behalf of the covered entity) without authorization under § 164.508.

A covered entity may disclose protected health information to a business associate, consistent with the other requirements of the final rule, as necessary to permit the business associate to perform functions and activities for or on behalf of the covered entity, or to provide the services specified in the business associate definition to or for the covered entity.

(I) At termination of the contract, if feasible, return or destroy all protected health information received from, or created or received by the business associate on behalf of, the covered entity that the business associate still maintains in any form and retain no copies of such information or, if such return or destruction is not feasible, extend the protections of the contract to the information and limit further uses and disclosures to those purposes that make the return or destruction of the information infeasible.

These changes mean that § 164.502 (e) requires a business associate contract (or other arrangement, as applicable) not only when the covered entity discloses protected health information to a business associate, but also when the business associate creates or receives protected health information on behalf of the covered entity.

While we permit uses or disclosures of protected health information for a variety of purposes, business associate contracts or other arrangements are only required for those cases in which the covered entity is disclosing information to someone or some organization that will use the information on behalf of the covered entity, when the other person will be creating or obtaining protected health information on behalf of the covered entity, or when the business associate is providing the specified services to the covered entity and the provision of those services involves the disclosure of protected health information by the covered entity to the business associate.

For example, if a covered entity does not disclose or receive from its business associate any protected health information and no protected health information is created or received by its business associate on behalf of the covered entity, then the business associate requirements of this rule do not apply.

Authorizations requested by a business associate on the covered entity's behalf and that authorize the use or disclosure of protected health information by the covered entity or the business associate must meet the requirements in § 164.508 (d).

Response: The final rule retains the general requirement that, subject to the exceptions below, a covered entity must enter into a business associate contract with another covered entity when one is providing services to or acting on behalf of the other.

168 DOS 98 Matter of DOS v. Briggs — due process; failure to appear at hearing; proper business practices; ex partehearing may proceed upon proof of proper service; licensee changed location of principal place of business without notice to DOS and operated a real estate brokerage business under an unlicensed name; real estate services rendered on behalf of an unlicensed entity are illegal; $ 500.00 fine, failure to timely pay fine will result in suspension