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Accountability: The responsibility placed on an individual or group for their own or others’ actions, conduct, performance, projects, etc.

Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA): A federal act that protects people who change jobs, are self-employed, or who have pre-existing medical conditions. HIPAA standardizes an approach to the continuation of healthcare benefits . . . View Full Definition

Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA )Of 1996: The Act was enacted to make health insurance more 'portable' from one employer to another. The law mandates procedures for both new hires and for existing employees who are leaving the compa . . . View Full Definition

Fair Information Practices: A set of standards developed in the early 1970s to describe how information should be used and protected: usually stated as eight principles in this country and including openness, individua . . . View Full Definition

Pay-Per-Sale: An advertising pricing model in which advertisers pay agencies based on how many consumers actually buy something as a direct result of the promotion. Despised by agencies for the wretched a . . . View Full Definition

Coordinated Review Effort (CRE): Food and Consumer Service reviews of the National School Lunch Program conducted in cooperation with state agencies to improve the management of the programs, evaluate meal data accuracy, an . . . View Full Definition

Agricultural Research Extension And Education Reform Act Of 1998: P.L. 105-185 (June 23, 1998) reauthorized and revised federally supported agricultural research, education, and extension programs. The Act built upon reforms that were made in the research . . . View Full Definition

HIPAA: A Federal law passed in 1996 that allows persons to qualify immediately for comparable health insurance coverage when they change their employment or relationships. It also creates the autho . . . View Full Definition

Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA): A broad-reaching law that establishes the rights of pension plan participants, standards for the investment of pension plan assets, and requirements for the disclosure of plan provisions and funding.

Portable Benefits: Benefits or accumulated assets that you can take with you when you leave your employer or switch jobs are described as portable. For instance, if you contribute to a 401(k), 403(b), 457, or . . . View Full Definition