PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Susan Cunningham
Atlantic Information Services, Inc.
Phone: 202-775-9008
Email: scunningham@aispub.com
Website: www.aishealth.com/Products/sarbEBPG.html

TREMENDOUS PRESSURE EXISTS TO IMPLEMENT
SARBANES-OXLEY BEST PRACTICES

WASHINGTON DC, USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE(TM) -- JULY 27, 2006: Atlantic Information Services, Inc., publisher of Report on Medicare Compliance and Report on Patient Privacy announces the availability of its publication, 49 Steps to Implement Sarbanes-Oxley Best Practices. This 2006 book is a new sequel to our best-selling 2003 publication on Sarbanes-Oxley - written by the same experienced compliance experts at Strategic Management Systems, Inc., led by former Inspector General Richard P. Kusserow. www.aishealth.com/Products/sarbEBPG.html.

This 300-page "how-to-do-it" manual and CD will help you understand today's Sarbanes-Oxley challenges and allow you to respond to them effectively in light of three years of Sarbanes-Oxley implementation. It will enable you to put your strategies in place for achieving organization-wide adherence to these established best practices.

You'll get the assistance you need to:

  • Ensure adequate Audit Committee oversight
  • Eliminate potential auditor conflicts
  • Achieve better accountability and accuracy of financial documentation
  • Implement an effective records retention program
  • Update your Code of Ethics and written guidance
  • Ensure that auditors are not pressured or coerced
  • Establish procedures for confidential, anonymous receipt of complaints
  • And much more

The accompanying CD contains templates of all documents and forms in the book, allowing you to customize them for your own organization.

Place your order for 49 Steps to Implement Sarbanes-Oxley Best Practices today so your organization can adopt what have become consensus best practice standards.

PUBLICATION INFORMATION:

Price: $385 (Includes CD)
*plus $5 shipping and handling
**DC residents add 5.75% sales tax

FOUR EASY WAYS TO ORDER:
  1. Call toll free (800) 521-4323.
  2. Visit www.aishealth.com/Products/sarbEBPG.html to order online
  3. Fax your purchase order to (202) 331-9542
  4. Mail your order with check, credit card information or purchase order to:

    Atlantic Information Services (LDBEN/EBPG3)
    1100 17th Street NW, Suite 300
    Washington, DC 20036
OTHER MANAGED CARE RESOURCES FROM AIS:

Report on Medicare Compliance
HIPAA Security Compliance Guide
Report on Patient Privacy
A Guide to Complying with Stark Physician Self-Referral Rules
A Guide to Auditing Health Care Billing Practices

ABOUT ATLANTIC INFORMATION SERVICES:

Atlantic Information Services, Inc. (AIS) is a publishing and information company that has been serving the health care industry for more than 15 years. It develops highly targeted news, data and strategic information for managers in hospitals, managed care plans, medical group practices, pharmaceutical companies and many other health care organizations. AIS products include print and electronic newsletters, looseleafs, books, audioconferences, strategic reports and databases.

Visit www.AISHealth.com for more information on this publication and/or other AIS products and services that could serve your business needs.