Tremendous Pressure Exists to Implement Sarbanes-Oxley Best Practices

Sequel to Best-Selling “How-to-Do-It” Book Now Available From AIS

Washington, DC, July 24, 2006 — Atlantic Information Services, Inc. (AIS), publisher of Report on Medicare Compliance and Report on Patient Privacy, announces the availability of its newest publication, 49 Steps to Implement Sarbanes-Oxley Best Practices In Private and Nonprofit Health Care Entities. This 2006 book is a sequel to AIS's 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.

This “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.

49 Steps to Implement Sarbanes-Oxley Best Practices will assist your organization in adopting what have become consensus best practice standards. For more information and to see the table of contents visit http://www.aishealth.com/Products/sarb.html.

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