Sentences with phrase «providers as a business associate»

Uber Health is being engaged by health - care providers as a business associate, and will have to sign business associate agreements as a result, but it's unclear how the drivers will be categorized, Colin Zick, a health - care attorney with Foley Hoag LLP in Boston, told Bloomberg Law.

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Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

«Because Swinburne University is acting as an independent research provider, all industry stakeholders can be assured their data will be kept confidential and not shared in any manner that can be linked to a specific business,» explains Associate Professor Mascitelli.

«Authorized account holder» is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet Access Provider, online service provider, or other organization (e.g., business, educational institute) that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail Provider, online service provider, or other organization (e.g., business, educational institute) that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail provider, or other organization (e.g., business, educational institute) that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address.

Sutherland is an international legal service provider composed of associated legal practices that are separate entities, doing business in the U.S. as Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP and as Arbis Sutherland LLP in London and Geneva.

Health care providers are permitted to disclose protected health information («PHI») to these business associates («BA») as long as they obtain satisfactory assurances that the BA will use the information only for the purposes for which it was engaged by the health care provider, will safeguard the information from misuse, and will help the health care provider comply with some of the health care provider's duties under HIPAA, through the execution of business associate agreements.

Therefore, it is imperative that any health care provider engaging a cloud storage company understands the cloud computing environment and solutions being offered by such companies, so the health care provider may appropriately conduct its own risk analysis and establish risk management policies, as well as enter into appropriate business associate agreements to ensure that the cloud storage company complies with HIPAA requirements.

These attorneys will need to safeguard the PHI of clients and business associates as closely as do the health care providers themselves.

Whether the covered entity is a small provider with relatively few files or a hospital or health plan with large record files, it will be more efficient to contract with specialists in these firms or associations (as «business associates» of the covered entity) to de-identify files.

Thus, so long as the use of debt collectors is consistent with the regulatory requirements (such as, providers obtain the proper consents, the disclosure is of the minimum amount of information necessary to collect the debt, the provider or health plan enter into a business associate agreement with the debt collector, etc.), relying upon debt collectors to obtain reimbursement for the provision of health care would not be prohibited by the regulation.

This right applies to health plans, covered health care providers, and health care clearinghouses that create or receive protected health information other than as a business associate of another covered entity (see § 164.500 (b)-RRB-.

Moreover, as business associates of plans and providers, health care clearinghouses are bound by the notices of information practices of the covered entities with whom they contract.

This includes such information in a business associate's designated record set that is not a duplicate of the information held by the health care provider or health plan for so long as the information is maintained.

For example, if a business associate acts as the billing agent of a health care provider, and discloses protected health information on behalf of the hospital to health plans, the business associate has no responsibility with respect to further uses or disclosures by the health plan.

As business associates, they would be bound by their contracts with covered plans and providers.

As part of the corporate reorganisation, Moorcrofts set up a new holding company, Endorsed Group Limited, which then purchased 10 associated companies, including Elliott Browne International Limited which is a global leader within Microsoft and Business Intelligence Technologies and Endorsed Technologies Limited, a leading recruitment software provider, into one group.

Titled as Whatsapp Business, the app aims to make it easy for customers to identify that it belongs to a brand and will have a detailed description of the product or service provider it is associated with.

The industry leaders such as huge cryptocurrency exchanges with highest trading volumes (e.g. Bittrex, Bithumb, CoinOne, HitBTC, Coinbase etc.), wallet providers (Blockchain.info, etc.), venture capital firms (e.g. Andreessen Horowitz, Winklevoss Capital) and news media (Coindesk, Cointelegraph, CoinStaker, etc.) have already proven to the rest of the world that it is possible to run a business associated with digital coins legitimately.

A settlement service provider can sponsor an educational event as a way to promote its services, so long as the costs associated with the event do not defray expenses that the real estate agent would otherwise encounter and are not conditioned on the referral of business.