Form 1-A Issuer Information


FORM 1-A

UNITED STATE
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 1-A
REGULATION A OFFERING STATEMENT
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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1-A: Filer Information

Issuer CIK
0001393570
Issuer CCC
XXXXXXXX
DOS File Number
Offering File Number
Is this a LIVE or TEST Filing?
x LIVE o TEST
Would you like a Return Copy?
o
Notify via Filing Website only?
o
Since Last Filing?
o

Submission Contact Information

Name
Phone
E-Mail Address

1-A: Item 1. Issuer Information

Issuer Infomation

Exact name of issuer as specified in the issuer's charter
Patient Access Solutions, Inc.
Jurisdiction of Incorporation / Organization
NEVADA
Year of Incorporation
2006
CIK
0001393570
Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code
COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT
I.R.S. Employer Identification Number
98-0550407
Total number of full-time employees
4
Total number of part-time employees
0

Contact Infomation

Address of Principal Executive Offices

Address 1
131 Sunnyside Boulevard
Address 2
Suite 100
City
Plainview
State/Country
NEW YORK
Mailing Zip/ Postal Code
11803
Phone
631-241-9404

Provide the following information for the person the Securities and Exchange Commission's staff should call in connection with any pre-qualification review of the offering statement.

Name
Marc Adesso
Address 1
Address 2
City
State/Country
Mailing Zip/ Postal Code
Phone

Provide up to two e-mail addresses to which the Securities and Exchange Commission's staff may send any comment letters relating to the offering statement. After qualification of the offering statement, such e-mail addresses are not required to remain active.

Financial Statements

Industry Group (select one)
o Banking o Insurance x Other

Use the financial statements for the most recent period contained in this offering statement to provide the following information about the issuer. The following table does not include all of the line items from the financial statements. Long Term Debt would include notes payable, bonds, mortgages, and similar obligations. To determine "Total Revenues" for all companies selecting "Other" for their industry group, refer to Article 5-03(b)(1) of Regulation S-X. For companies selecting "Insurance", refer to Article 7-04 of Regulation S-X for calculation of "Total Revenues" and paragraphs 5 and 7 of Article 7-04 for "Costs and Expenses Applicable to Revenues".

Balance Sheet Information

Cash and Cash Equivalents
$ 500.00
Investment Securities
$ 0.00
Total Investments
$
Accounts and Notes Receivable
$ 0.00
Loans
$
Property, Plant and Equipment (PP&E):
$ 601749.00
Property and Equipment
$
Total Assets
$ 2033545.00
Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities
$ 2006468.00
Policy Liabilities and Accruals
$
Deposits
$
Long Term Debt
$ 200000.00
Total Liabilities
$ 2206468.00
Total Stockholders' Equity
$ -172923.00
Total Liabilities and Equity
$ 2033545.00

Income Statement Information

Total Revenues
$ 889367.00
Total Interest Income
$
Costs and Expenses Applicable to Revenues
$ 6753411.00
Total Interest Expenses
$
Depreciation and Amortization
$ 45537.00
Net Income
$ -5864044.00
Earnings Per Share - Basic
$ 0.00
Earnings Per Share - Diluted
$ 0.00
Name of Auditor (if any)
N/A

Outstanding Securities

Common Equity

Name of Class (if any) Common Equity
Common Stock
Common Equity Units Outstanding
184523960
Common Equity CUSIP (if any):
70324A208
Common Equity Units Name of Trading Center or Quotation Medium (if any)
OTC PINK

Preferred Equity

Preferred Equity Name of Class (if any)
Series A Convertible Preferred
Preferred Equity Units Outstanding
10000000
Preferred Equity CUSIP (if any)
000000N/A
Preferred Equity Name of Trading Center or Quotation Medium (if any)
N/A

Debt Securities

Debt Securities Name of Class (if any)
N/A
Debt Securities Units Outstanding
0
Debt Securities CUSIP (if any):
000000N/A
Debt Securities Name of Trading Center or Quotation Medium (if any)
N/A

1-A: Item 2. Issuer Eligibility

Issuer Eligibility

Check this box to certify that all of the following statements are true for the issuer(s)

x

  • Organized under the laws of the United States or Canada, or any State, Province, Territory or possession thereof, or the District of Columbia.
  • Principal place of business is in the United States or Canada.
  • Not subject to section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
  • Not a development stage company that either (a) has no specific business plan or purpose, or (b) has indicated that its business plan is to merge with an unidentified company or companies.
  • Not an investment company registered or required to be registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
  • Not issuing fractional undivided interests in oil or gas rights, or a similar interest in other mineral rights.
  • Not issuing asset-backed securities as defined in Item 1101 (c) of Regulation AB.
  • Not, and has not been, subject to any order of the Commission entered pursuant to Section 12(j) of the Exchange Act (15 U.S.C. 78l(j)) within five years before the filing of this offering statement.
  • Has filed with the Commission all the reports it was required to file, if any, pursuant to Rule 257 during the two years immediately before the filing of the offering statement (or for such shorter period that the issuer was required to file such reports).

1-A: Item 3. Application of Rule 262

Application Rule 262

Check this box to certify that, as of the time of this filing, each person described in Rule 262 of Regulation A is either not disqualified under that rule or is disqualified but has received a waiver of such disqualification.

x

Check this box if "bad actor" disclosure under Rule 262(d) is provided in Part II of the offering statement.

o

1-A: Item 4. Summary Information Regarding the Offering and Other Current or Proposed Offerings

Summary Infomation

Check the appropriate box to indicate whether you are conducting a Tier 1 or Tier 2 offering
x Tier1 o Tier2
Check the appropriate box to indicate whether the financial statements have been audited
x Unaudited o Audited
Types of Securities Offered in this Offering Statement (select all that apply)
x Equity (common or preferred stock)
Does the issuer intend to offer the securities on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 251(d)(3)?
o Yes x No
Does the issuer intend this offering to last more than one year?
o Yes x No
Does the issuer intend to price this offering after qualification pursuant to Rule 253(b)?
o Yes x No
Will the issuer be conducting a best efforts offering?
x Yes o No
Has the issuer used solicitation of interest communications in connection with the proposed offering?
o Yes x No
Does the proposed offering involve the resale of securities by affiliates of the issuer?
o Yes x No
Number of securities offered
350000000
Number of securities of that class outstanding
184523960

The information called for by this item below may be omitted if undetermined at the time of filing or submission, except that if a price range has been included in the offering statement, the midpoint of that range must be used to respond. Please refer to Rule 251(a) for the definition of "aggregate offering price" or "aggregate sales" as used in this item. Please leave the field blank if undetermined at this time and include a zero if a particular item is not applicable to the offering.

Price per security
$ 0.0100
The portion of the aggregate offering price attributable to securities being offered on behalf of the issuer
$ 3500000.00
The portion of the aggregate offering price attributable to securities being offered on behalf of selling securityholders
$ 0.00
The portion of the aggregate offering price attributable to all the securities of the issuer sold pursuant to a qualified offering statement within the 12 months before the qualification of this offering statement
$ 0.00
The estimated portion of aggregate sales attributable to securities that may be sold pursuant to any other qualified offering statement concurrently with securities being sold under this offering statement
$ 0.00
Total (the sum of the aggregate offering price and aggregate sales in the four preceding paragraphs)
$ 3500000.00

Anticipated fees in connection with this offering and names of service providers

Underwriters - Name of Service Provider
Underwriters - Fees
$
Sales Commissions - Name of Service Provider
Sales Commissions - Fee
$
Finders' Fees - Name of Service Provider
Finders' Fees - Fees
$
Audit - Name of Service Provider
Audit - Fees
$
Legal - Name of Service Provider
Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP
Legal - Fees
$ 30000.00
Promoters - Name of Service Provider
Promoters - Fees
$
Blue Sky Compliance - Name of Service Provider
TBD
Blue Sky Compliance - Fees
$ 20000.00
CRD Number of any broker or dealer listed:
000000000
Estimated net proceeds to the issuer
$ 3450000.00
Clarification of responses (if necessary)

1-A: Item 5. Jurisdictions in Which Securities are to be Offered

Jurisdictions in Which Securities are to be Offered

Using the list below, select the jurisdictions in which the issuer intends to offer the securities

Selected States and Jurisdictions

FLORIDA
NEW YORK

Using the list below, select the jurisdictions in which the securities are to be offered by underwriters, dealers or sales persons or check the appropriate box

None
x
Same as the jurisdictions in which the issuer intends to offer the securities
o
Selected States and Jurisdictions

1-A: Item 6. Unregistered Securities Issued or Sold Within One Year

Unregistered Securities Issued or Sold Within One Year

None o

Unregistered Securities Act

(e) Indicate the section of the Securities Act or Commission rule or regulation relied upon for exemption from the registration requirements of such Act and state briefly the facts relied upon for such exemption
During the period ended April 30, 2018, 64,591,818 shares were issued to investors and 40,000,000 shares were issued to service providers. All such shares were issued under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.

An offering statement pursuant to Regulation A relating to these securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Information contained in this Preliminary Offering Circular is subject to completion or amendment. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted before the offering statement filed with the Commission is qualified. This Preliminary Offering Circular shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor may there be any sales of these securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful before registration or qualification under the laws of any such state. We may elect to satisfy our obligation to deliver a Final Offering circular by sending you a notice within two business days after the completion of our sale to you that contains the URL where the Final Offering Circular or the offering statement in which such Final Offering Circular was filed may be obtained.

 

Preliminary Offering Circular Subject To Completion

Dated August 9, 2018

 

  

PATIENT ACCESS SOLUTIONS INC.

Up to 350,000,000 Shares

of Common Stock

$3,500,000

 

 

Patient Access Solutions Inc. (the “Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) is offering up to 350,000,000 shares of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (“Common Stock”), for $0.01 per share, for gross proceeds of up to $3,500,000, before deduction of offering expenses, assuming all shares are sold (the “Offering”). The minimum investment established for each investor is $500, unless such minimum is waived by the Company in its sole discretion, which may be done on a case-by-case basis. All money we receive from the Offering will be immediately available to us for the uses set forth in the “Use of Proceeds” section of this Offering Circular.

 

Shares offered hereby will be sold by our directors and executive officers on behalf of the Company. We may also elect to engage licensed broker-dealers. No sales agents have yet been engaged to sell shares. All shares will be offered on a “best-efforts” basis.

 

We expect to commence the Offering on the date on which the Offering Statement of which this Offering Circular is a part (this “Offering Circular”) is qualified by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and will terminate one year thereafter or once all offered securities are sold, whichever occurs first. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may extend the Offering by an additional 90 days or terminate the Offering at any time.

 

Our Common Stock is not now listed on any national securities exchange; however, our stock is quoted on OTC Markets Pink marketplace under the trading symbol “PASO.” There is currently only a limited market for our securities. There is no guarantee that our securities will ever trade on any listed exchange or be quoted on the OTCQB or OTCQX marketplaces.

 

This offering is being made pursuant to Tier 1 of Regulation A following the Offering Circular disclosure format.

 

Title of each class of securities to be registered   Amount  maximum offered     Proposed offering price
per share
   

Commissions and discounts

(1)

   

Proceeds to issuer

(2)

 

 

Common Stock     3,500,000     $ 0.01     $ 0     $ 3,500,000  

 

 
 

 

1) We may offer shares through registered broker dealers, although at this time, we have not determined if we will require these services, and therefore have not selected such a selling agent.

 

2) We estimate that our total expenses for this offering will be $50,000. See “ Plan of Distribution.”

 

Generally, no sale may be made to you in this offering if the aggregate purchase price you pay is more than 10% of the greater of your annual income or net worth. Different rules apply to accredited investors and non-natural persons. Before making any representation that your investment does not exceed applicable thresholds, we encourage you to review Rule 251(d)(2)(i)(C) of Regulation A. For general information on investing, we encourage you to refer to www.investor.gov.

 

This Offering is highly speculative and these securities involve a high degree of risk and should be considered only by persons who can afford the loss of their entire investment. See “Risk Factors” on Page 7.

 

THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION DOES NOT PASS UPON THE MERITS OF OR GIVE ITS APPROVAL TO ANY SECURITIES OFFERED OR THE TERMS OF THE OFFERING, NOR DOES IT PASS UPON THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY OFFERING CIRCULAR OR OTHER SOLICITATION MATERIALS. THESE SECURITIES ARE OFFERED PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION WITH THE COMMISSION; HOWEVER, THE COMMISSION HAS NOT MADE AN INDEPENDENT DETERMINATION THAT THE SECURITIES OFFERED ARE EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION.

 

 

131 Sunnyside Boulevard, Suite 100, Plainview, New York 11803

631-241-9404; www.pashealth.com

 

Offering Circular Date:       , 2018

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

USE OF MARKET AND INDUSTRY DATA 4
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS 4
SUMMARY INFORMATION 5
RISK FACTORS 7
DILUTION 19
PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION 20
USE OF PROCEEDS TO ISSUER 21
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS 23
DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY 29
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF 29
FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS 29
DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND SIGNIFICANT EMPLOYEES 30
COMPENSATION OF DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS 32
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF MANAGEMENT AND CERTAIN SECURITYHOLDERS 32
INTEREST OF MANAGEMENT AND OTHERS IN CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS 33
SECURITIES BEING OFFERED 33
DISCLOSURE OF COMMISSION POSITION ON INDEMNIFICATION FOR SECURITIES LIABILITIES 34
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 35
EXHIBITS 51

 

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USE OF MARKET AND INDUSTRY DATA

 

This Offering Circular includes market and industry data that we have obtained from third-party sources, including industry publications, as well as industry data prepared by our management on the basis of its knowledge of and experience in the industries in which we operate (including our management’s estimates and assumptions relating to such industries based on that knowledge). Management has developed its knowledge of such industries through its experience and participation in these industries. While our management believes the third-party sources referred to in this Offering Circular are reliable, neither we nor our management have independently verified any of the data from such sources referred to in this Offering Circular or ascertained the underlying economic assumptions relied upon by such sources. Furthermore, internally prepared and third-party market prospective information, in particular, are estimates only and there will usually be differences between the prospective and actual results, because events and circumstances frequently do not occur as expected, and those differences may be material. Also, references in this Offering Circular to any publications, reports, surveys or articles prepared by third parties should not be construed as depicting the complete findings of the entire publication, report, survey or article. The information in any such publication, report, survey or article is not incorporated by reference in this Offering Circular.

 

Solely for convenience, we refer to our trademarks in this Offering Circular without the ® or the ™ or symbols, but such references are not intended to indicate that we will not assert, to the fullest extent under applicable law, our rights to our own trademarks. Other service marks, trademarks and trade names referred to in this Offering Circular, if any, are the property of their respective owners, although for presentational convenience we may not use the ® or the ™ symbols to identify such trademarks.

 

CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

There are statements in this Offering Circular that are not historical facts. These “forward-looking statements” can be identified by use of terminology such as “believe,” “hope,” “may,” “anticipate,” “should,” “intend,” “plan,” “will,” “expect,” “estimate,” “project,” “positioned,” “strategy” and similar expressions. You should be aware that these forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that are beyond our control. For a discussion of these risks, you should read this entire Offering Circular carefully, especially the risks discussed under “Risk Factors.” Although management believes that the assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements included in this Offering Circular are reasonable, they do not guarantee our future performance, and actual results could differ from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements. The assumptions used for purposes of the forward-looking statements specified in the following information represent estimates of future events and are subject to uncertainty as to possible changes in economic, legislative, industry, and other circumstances. As a result, the identification and interpretation of data and other information and their use in developing and selecting assumptions from and among reasonable alternatives require the exercise of judgment. To the extent that the assumed events do not occur, the outcome may vary substantially from anticipated or projected results, and, accordingly, no opinion is expressed on the achievability of those forward-looking statements. In the light of these risks and uncertainties, there can be no assurance that the results and events contemplated by the forward-looking statements contained in this Offering Circular will in fact transpire. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates. We do not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements.


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SUMMARY INFORMATION

 

This summary highlights some of the information in this Offering Circular. It is not complete and may not contain all of the information that you may want to consider. To understand this Offering fully, you should carefully read the entire circular, including the section entitled “Risk Factors,” before making a decision to invest in our securities. Unless otherwise noted or unless the context otherwise requires, the terms “we,” “us,” “our,” the “Company,” refer to Patient Access Group, Inc. and its subsidiary, PAS Health Management Companies NY, Inc.

 

Overview

 

Patient Access Solutions Inc. was incorporated in the state of Nevada on March 17, 2006. Its wholly owned subsidiary, PAS Health Management Companies NY, Inc., was incorporated in the state of New York on October 1, 2015, through which the Company provides administrative, management, and facility services to health care providers in Plainview, New York. The Company also rents equipment to other health care providers, including a number of the Company’s PAS Web Portal Systems and PAS Point of Sale solutions customers.

 

Integrative Medical Health Care of Plainview, PC d/b/a The CIIT Center of Plainview

 

On January 1, 2017, Patient Access Solutions, Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary, PASHealth Management Companies NY Inc., entered into an Administrative and Management Services Agreement (the “CIIT Agreement”) with Integrative Medical Health Care of Plainview, PC d/b/a The CIIT Center of Plainview (the “Plainview PC”), which is wholly owned by Dr. Muneer Imam. The CIIT Agreement provides that the Company will provide all medical equipment, furniture and fixtures, rental space, medical supplies, non-professional staff, management, administrative and collection services to the health care practice in the Center for Integrative and Innovative Therapies (“CIIT”) Medical Center for the term of the CIIT Agreement, which is five years long and automatically renews for one year terms unless either party to the CIIT Agreement notifies the other party no less than 120 days prior to the expiration of the term then in effect that the CIIT Agreement will not be renewed. The CIIT Agreement also requires Plainview PC to pay the Company minimum compensation of $60,000 per month ($35,000 in management fees and $25,000 in facility fees).

 

Furthermore, the Company leases a 12,500 square foot facility located in Plainview, New York in which the CIIT provides services. In that facility, the CIIT through its two doctors provides specialty care for chronic health conditions including autism, concussion, PTSD, traumatic brain injuries and numerous other brain related, and biomedical conditions including depression, anxiety, thyroid conditions and much more. See “Description of Business -- Employees” for more information on the CIIT’s two doctors.

 

Going Concern

 

Our accountant has expressed substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. The Company has suffered losses and has experienced negative cash flows from operations, which raises substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

 

Corporate Information

 

Our principal executive offices are located at 131 Sunnyside Boulevard, Suite 100, Plainview, New York 11803. Our telephone number is (631) 241-9404. The address of our website is www.pashealth.com. Information contained on or accessible through our website is not a part of this Offering Circular and should not be relied upon in determining whether to make an investment decision.

 

Patient Access Solutions Inc.’s securities are currently quoted on the OTC Markets Group Inc.’s OTC Pink marketplace under the symbol “PASO.”

 

 

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The Offering

 

This Offering Circular relates to the sale of up to 350,000,000 shares of our Common Stock, through the efforts of the Company’s executive officers and directors at a price of $0.01 per share, for total Offering proceeds of up to $3,500,000, if all offered shares are sold. The minimum amount established for investors is $500, unless such minimum is waived by the Company, in its sole discretion, on a case-by-case basis. There is no minimum aggregate Offering amount and the Company will not escrow or return investor funds if any minimum number of shares is not sold. All money we receive from the Offering will be immediately available to us for the uses set forth in the “Use of Proceeds” section of this Offering Circular.   

 

Shares offered hereby will be sold by our directors and executive officers on behalf of the Company. We may also elect to engage licensed broker-dealers. No sales agents have yet been engaged to sell shares. All shares will be offered on a “best-efforts” basis. Investors may be publicly solicited provided the “blue sky” regulations in the states in which the Company solicits investors allow such solicitation.

 

This Offering will terminate one year after the Offering Statement of which this Offering Circular is a part is qualified by the SEC, or once all offered securities are sold, whichever occurs first. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may extend the Offering by an additional 90 days or terminate the offering at any time.

 

 

Issuer in this Offering: Patient Access Solutions, Inc.
   
Securities offered: Common Stock
   
Common Stock to be outstanding
before this Offering:
194,855,992
   
Common Stock to be outstanding
after this Offering:
544,855,992
   
Price per share:

$0.01

 

Maximum Offering amount:

 

$3,500,000, assuming the maximum amount of shares are sold.
Use of proceeds:

We estimate that the net proceeds to us from this Offering, after deducting estimated Offering expenses, will be approximately $3,450,000, assuming the maximum amount of shares of Common Stock are sold.

Assuming the maximum amount of shares of Common Stock are sold, we intend to use the net proceeds from this Offering for the purchase of computer hardware and computer software, marketing expenses, professional fees associated with this Offering, hiring of staff, employee compensation, leasehold improvements and general working capital purposes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, our management will have broad discretion over how these proceeds are used. For additional information, see “Use of Proceeds.”

 

Dividend policy: Holders of our Common Stock are only entitled to receive dividends when, as and if declared by our board of directors out of funds legally available for dividends. We do not intend to pay dividends for the foreseeable future. Our ability to pay dividends to our stockholders in the future will depend on regulatory restrictions, liquidity and capital requirements, our earnings and financial condition, the general economic climate, contractual restrictions, our ability to service any equity or debt obligations senior to our Common Stock and other factors deemed relevant by our board of directors. For additional information, see “Dividend Policy.”

 

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Risk factors:

 

 

Investing in our Common Stock involves risks. See “Risk Factors” for a discussion of certain factors that you should carefully consider before making an investment decision.

 

ABOUT THIS CIRCULAR

 

We have prepared this Offering Circular to be filed with the SEC for our Offering of securities. The Offering Circular includes exhibits that provide more detailed descriptions of the matters discussed in this circular. You should rely only on the information contained in this circular and its exhibits. The Company has not authorized any person to provide you with any information different from that contained in this circular. The information contained in this circular is complete and accurate only as of the date of this circular, regardless of the time of delivery of this circular or sale of our shares. This circular contains summaries of certain other documents, but reference is hereby made to the full text of the actual documents for complete information concerning the rights and obligations of the parties thereto. All documents relating to this Offering and related documents and agreements, if readily available to us, will be made available to a prospective investor or its representatives upon request.

 

TAX CONSIDERATIONS

 

No information contained herein, nor in any prior, contemporaneous or subsequent communication should be construed by a prospective investor as legal or tax advice. We are not providing any tax advice as to the acquisition, holding or disposition of the securities offered herein. In making an investment decision, investors are strongly encouraged to consult their own tax advisor to determine the U.S. Federal, state and any applicable foreign tax consequences relating to their investment in our securities. This written communication is not intended to be “written advice,” as defined in Circular 230 published by the U.S. Treasury Department.

 

 

RISK FACTORS

 

We are subject to a number of risks, including risks that may prevent us from achieving our business objectives or that may adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and prospects. You should carefully consider the risks discussed in this section before investing in our Common Stock.

 

Risks Related to our Business

 

Our accountant has indicated doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.

 

As of October 31, 2017, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $(14,495,454). Our ability to continue as a going concern is doubtful. Our financial statements do not include adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty. If we are unable to generate significant revenue or secure financing we may be required to cease or curtail our operations.

 

We cannot predict when or if we will produce revenues.

 

The Company generated net revenues of $192,213 for the year ended October 31, 2017 and $20,174 for the year ended October 31, 2016. For the six months ended April 30, 2018, we incurred losses of $(5,864,044). In order for us to continue with plans for our business, as set forth in this Offering Circular, we must raise capital. The timing of the completion of the milestones needed to commence operations and generate revenues is contingent on the success of this raise. There can be no assurance that we will generate revenues or that revenues will be sufficient to maintain our business.

 

We may require additional financing to sustain or grow our operations.

 

We estimate that we will receive net proceeds from this Offering of approximately $3,450,000, based on an assumed initial public offering price of $0.01 per share, and after deducting the estimated expenses of this Offering. Especially if we do not raise the full amount we expect to raise in this Offering, we may need to borrow funds or raise additional equity capital to sustain our operations. In addition, our growth will be dependent on our ability to access additional equity and debt capital after this Offering is completed. Moreover, part of our business strategy may involve the use of debt financing to increase potential revenues. Our inability in the future to obtain additional equity capital or a corporate credit facility on attractive terms, or at all, could adversely impact our ability to execute our business strategy, which could adversely affect our growth prospects and future stockholder returns.

 

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We may not be able to manage successfully our growth resulting in possible failure or flawed implementation of our business plan.

 

While we believe that our services can be readily scaled to accommodate large or very large volume, we cannot be certain of that belief until such scaling occurs. In addition, significant growth will require more than marketing capabilities, capabilities such as its operating and financial procedures and controls, replacing or upgrading our operational, financial and management information systems and attracting, training, motivating, managing and retaining key employees. If our executives are unable to manage growth effectively, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be materially adversely affected.

 

We are subject to uncertainties regarding recent health reform legislation, which represents a significant change to the healthcare industry.

 

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the “PPACA”). The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (the “Reconciliation Act”), which contains a number of amendments to the PPACA, was signed into law on March 30, 2010. Two primary goals of the PPACA, combined with the Reconciliation Act (collectively referred to as the “Health Reform Legislation”), are to provide for increased access to coverage for healthcare and to reduce healthcare-related expenses.

 

The expansion of health insurance coverage under the Health Reform Legislation may increase the number of patients using our facility who have either private or public program coverage. In addition, a disproportionately large percentage of new Medicaid coverage is likely to be in states that currently have relatively low income eligibility requirements and may include New York and states where we have future facilities. Furthermore, as a result of the Health Reform Legislation, there may be a reduction in uninsured patients, which should reduce our expense from uncollectible accounts receivable.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Health Reform Legislation makes a number of other changes to Medicare and Medicaid which we believe may have an adverse impact on us. The Health Reform Legislation revises reimbursement under the Medicare and Medicaid programs to emphasize the efficient delivery of high quality care and contains a number of incentives and penalties under these programs to achieve these goals. The Health Reform Legislation provides for decreases in reimbursement rates.

 

The various provisions in the Health Reform Legislation that directly or indirectly affect reimbursement are scheduled to take effect over a number of years. Health Reform Legislation provisions are likely to be affected by the incomplete nature of implementing regulations or expected forthcoming interpretive guidance, gradual implementation, future legislation, and possible judicial nullification of all or certain provisions of the Health Reform Legislation. Further Health Reform Legislation provisions, such as those creating the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the Independent Payment Advisory Board, create certain flexibilities in how healthcare may be reimbursed by federal programs in the future. Thus, we cannot predict the impact of the Health Reform Legislation on our future reimbursement at this time.

 

The Health Reform Legislation also contains provisions aimed at reducing fraud and abuse in healthcare. The Health Reform Legislation amends several existing laws, including the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and the False Claims Act, making it easier for government agencies and private plaintiffs to prevail in lawsuits brought against healthcare providers. Congress revised the intent requirement of the Anti-Kickback Statute to provide that a person is not required to “have actual knowledge or specific intent to commit a violation of” the Anti-Kickback Statute in order to be found guilty of violating such law. The Health Reform Legislation also provides that any claims for items or services that violate the Anti-Kickback Statute are also considered false claims for purposes of the federal civil False Claims Act. The Health Reform Legislation provides that a healthcare provider that knowingly retains an overpayment in excess of 60 days is subject to the federal civil False Claims Act. The Health Reform Legislation also expands the Recovery Audit Contractor program, which had previously been limited to Medicare, to Medicaid.

 

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These amendments also make it easier for severe fines and penalties to be imposed on healthcare providers that violate applicable laws and regulations.

 

The impact of the Health Reform Legislation on our current facility and future facilities may vary. Because the Health Reform Legislation provisions are effective at various times over the next several years and in light of federal lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the Health Reform Legislation, we anticipate that many of the provisions in the Health Reform Legislation may be subject to further challenge. We cannot predict the impact the Health Reform Legislation may have on our business, results of operations, cash flow, capital resources and liquidity, or whether we will be able to adapt successfully to the changes required by the Health Reform Legislation.

 

We could face risks associated with, or arising out of, environmental, health and safety laws and regulations.

 

We are subject to various federal, state and local laws and regulations that:

 

· regulate certain activities and operations that may have environmental or health and safety effects, such as the generation, handling and disposal of medical wastes,

· impose liability for costs of cleaning up, and damages to natural resources from, past spills, waste disposals on and off-site, or other releases of hazardous materials or regulated substances, and

· regulate workplace safety.

Compliance with these laws and regulations could increase our costs of operation. Violation of these laws may subject us to significant fines, penalties or disposal costs, which could negatively impact our results of operations, financial position or cash flows. We could be responsible for the investigation and remediation of environmental conditions at currently or formerly operated or leased sites, as well as for associated liabilities, including liabilities for natural resource damages, third party property damage or personal injury resulting from lawsuits that could be brought by the government or private litigants, relating to our operations, the operations of facilities or the land on which our facility is located. We may be subject to these liabilities regardless of whether we lease or own the facility, and regardless of whether such environmental conditions were created by us or by a prior owner or tenant, or by a third party or a neighboring facility whose operations may have affected such facility or land. That is because liability for contamination under certain environmental laws can be imposed on current or past owners or operators of a site without regard to fault. We cannot assure you that environmental conditions relating to our prior, existing or future sites or those of predecessor companies whose liabilities we may have assumed or acquired will not have a material adverse affect on our business.

 

We could face substantial competition, which could reduce our market share and negatively impact our net revenue.

 

There are a number of companies that provide administrative, management, and facility services to health care providers, both in our geographic area and elsewhere. Many of our anticipated competitors are significantly larger than we are and have considerably greater financial, technical, marketing and other resources than we do. Some competitors may have a lower cost of funds and access to funding sources that are not available to us. We cannot assure you that the competitive pressures we face will not have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

We operate in a highly competitive industry, and competition may lead to declines in patient volumes.

 

The healthcare industry is highly competitive, and competition among healthcare providers (including hospitals) for patients, psychiatrists and other healthcare professionals has intensified in recent years. There are other healthcare facilities that provide behavioral and other mental health services comparable to at least some of those offered by our facility in each of the geographical areas in which we operate. Some of our competitors are owned by tax-supported governmental agencies or by nonprofit corporations and may have certain financial advantages not available to us, including endowments, charitable contributions, tax-exempt financing and exemptions from sales, property and income taxes.

 

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If our competitors are better able to attract patients, recruit and retain psychiatrists, physicians and other healthcare professionals, expand services or obtain favorable managed care contracts at their facilities, we may experience a decline in patient volume and our results of operations may be adversely affected.

 

The trend by insurance companies and managed care organizations to enter into sole source contracts may limit our ability to obtain patients.

 

Insurance companies and managed care organizations are entering into sole source contracts with healthcare providers, which could limit our ability to obtain patients since we do not offer the range of services required for these contracts. Moreover, private insurers, managed care organizations and, to a lesser extent, Medicaid and Medicare, are beginning to carve-out specific services, including mental health and substance abuse services, and establish small, specialized networks of providers for such services at fixed reimbursement rates. Continued growth in the use of carve-out arrangements could materially adversely affect our business to the extent we are not selected to participate in such networks or if the reimbursement rate is not adequate to cover the cost of providing the service.

 

Our performance depends on our ability to recruit and retain quality psychiatrists and other physicians.

 

The success and competitive advantage of our facility depends, in part, on the number and quality of the psychiatrists and other physicians on the medical staffs of our facility and our maintenance of good relations with those medical professionals. Although we employ psychiatrists and other physicians at our facility, psychiatrists and other physicians generally are not employees of our facility, and, in a number of our markets, they have admitting privileges at competing hospitals providing acute or inpatient behavioral health services. Such physicians (including psychiatrists) may terminate their affiliation with us at any time or admit their patients to competing healthcare facilities or hospitals. If we are unable to attract and retain sufficient numbers of quality psychiatrists and other physicians by providing adequate support personnel and facilities that meet the needs of those psychiatrists and other physicians, they may stop referring patients to our facility and our results of operations may decline.

 

It may become difficult for us to attract and retain an adequate number of psychiatrists and other physicians to practice in certain of the communities in which our current facility and future facilities are located. Our failure to recruit psychiatrists and other physicians to these communities or the loss of such medical professionals in these communities could make it more difficult to attract patients to our current facility and future facilities and thereby may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Additionally, our ability to recruit psychiatrists and other physicians is closely regulated. The form, amount and duration of assistance we can provide to recruited psychiatrists and other physicians is limited by the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, state Anti-Kickback Statutes, and related regulations. For example, the Stark Law requires, among other things, that recruitment assistance can be provided only to psychiatrists and other physicians who meet certain geographic and practice requirements, that the amount of assistance cannot be changed during the term of the recruitment agreement, and that the recruitment payments cannot generally benefit psychiatrists and other physicians currently in practice in the community beyond recruitment costs actually incurred by them.

 

Our facility faces competition for staffing that may increase our labor costs and reduce our profitability.

 

Our operations depend on the efforts, abilities, and experience of our management and medical support personnel, including our therapists, nurses, pharmacists and mental health technicians, as well as our psychiatrists and other professionals. We compete with other healthcare providers in recruiting and retaining qualified management, physicians (including psychiatrists) and support personnel responsible for the daily operations of our facility.

 

The nationwide shortage of nurses and other medical support personnel has been a significant operating issue facing us and other healthcare providers. This shortage may require us to enhance wages and benefits to recruit and retain nurses and other medical support personnel or require us to hire more expensive temporary or contract personnel. In addition, certain of our facilities are required to maintain specified staffing levels. To the extent we cannot meet those levels, we may be required to limit the services provided by these facilities, which would have a corresponding adverse effect on our net operating revenues.

 

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We cannot predict the degree to which we will be affected by the future availability or cost of attracting and retaining talented medical support staff. If our general labor and related expenses increase, we may not be able to raise our rates correspondingly. Our failure either to recruit and retain qualified management, psychiatrists, therapists, nurses and other medical support personnel or control our labor costs could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.

 

We depend heavily on key management personnel, and the departure of our only executive or a significant portion of our local facility management personnel could harm our business.

 

The expertise and efforts of our chief executive officer, physicians and other key members of our facility management personnel are critical to the success of our business. The loss of the services of one or more of our executive or of a significant portion of our facility management personnel could significantly undermine our management expertise and our ability to provide efficient, quality healthcare services at our facilities, which could harm our business.

 

If we cannot attract and retain key management personnel, or if our search for qualified personnel is prolonged, our system of internal controls may be affected, which could lead to an adverse effect on our operating results. In addition, it could be difficult, time consuming and expensive to replace any key management member or other critical personnel, and no guarantee exists that we will be able to recruit suitable replacements or assimilate new key management personnel into our organization.

 

Our future performance also depends on the continued services and continuing contributions of our senior management to execute on our business plan and to identify and pursue new facility management opportunities. The loss of services of senior management could significantly delay or prevent the achievement of our development and strategic objectives, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and operating results.

 

We could face risks associated with, or arising out of, environmental, health and safety laws and regulations.

 

We are subject to various federal, state and local laws and regulations that regulate certain activities and operations that may have environmental or health and safety effects, such as the generation, handling and disposal of medical wastes, and impose liability for costs of cleaning up, and damages to natural resources from, past spills, waste disposals on and off-site, or other releases of hazardous materials or regulated substances, and regulate workplace safety.

 

Compliance with these laws and regulations could increase our costs of operation. Violation of these laws may subject us to significant fines, penalties or disposal costs, which could negatively impact our results of operations, financial condition or cash flows. We could be responsible for the investigation and remediation of environmental conditions at currently or formerly operated or leased sites, as well as for associated liabilities, including liabilities for natural resource damages, third party property damage or personal injury resulting from lawsuits that could be brought by the government or private litigants, relating to our operations, the operations of facilities or the land on which our facility located. We may be subject to these liabilities regardless of whether we lease or own the facility, and regardless of whether such environmental conditions were created by us or by a prior owner or tenant, or by a third party or a neighboring facility whose operations may have affected such facility or land. That is because liability for contamination under certain environmental laws can be imposed on current or past owners or operators of a site without regard to fault. We cannot assure you that environmental conditions relating to our prior, existing or future sites or those of predecessor companies whose liabilities we may have assumed or acquired will not have a material adverse effect on our business.

 

Consolidation in the healthcare industry could adversely impact our business, financial condition and operating results.

 

Many healthcare provider organizations are consolidating to create integrated healthcare delivery systems with greater market power. As provider networks and managed care organizations consolidate, thus decreasing the number of market participants, competition to provide products and services like ours will become more intense, and the importance of establishing and maintaining relationships with key industry participants will increase. These industry participants may try to use their market power to negotiate price reductions for our products and services.

 

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Further, consolidation of management and billing services through integrated delivery systems may decrease demand for our products. Such consolidation may also lead integrated delivery systems to require newly acquired physician practices to replace their current Electronic Health Record, with that already in use in the larger enterprise. Any of these factors could materially and adversely impact our business, financial condition and operating results.

 

Changes in the United States healthcare industry and regulatory environment could have a material adverse impact on our results of operations.

 

Many of our products and services are intended to function within the structure of the healthcare financing and reimbursement system currently being used in the United States. In recent years, the healthcare industry in the United States has changed significantly in an effort to enhance efficiencies, reduce costs and improve patient outcomes. These changes have included cuts in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement levels, changes in the basis for payments, shifting away from fee-for-service and towards value-based payments and risk-sharing models, increases in the use of managed care, consolidation of pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply distributors and the development of large, sophisticated purchasing groups. We expect the healthcare industry in the United States to continue to change and for healthcare delivery models to evolve in the future.

 

The healthcare industry is highly regulated, and further regulation of our businesses and technology products and services could impose increased costs, negatively impact our profit margins and the profit margins of our customers, delay the introduction or implementation of our new products, or otherwise negatively impact our business and expose the Company to litigation and regulatory investigations.

 

If we fail to comply with the extensive laws and government regulations impacting our industry, we could suffer penalties, be the subject of federal and state investigations or be required to make significant changes to our operations, which may reduce our revenues, increase our costs and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

Healthcare service providers are required to comply with extensive and complex laws and regulations at the federal, state and local government levels relating to, among other things:

 

· licensure, certification and accreditation of substance abuse treatment services;
· licensure, certification and accreditation of laboratory services;
· handling, administration and distribution of controlled substances;
· necessity and adequacy of care, quality of services, and qualifications of professional and support personnel;
· referrals of clients and permissible relationships with physicians and other referral sources;
· claim submission and collections, including penalties for the submission of, or causing the submission of, false, fraudulent or misleading claims and the failure to repay overpayments in a timely manner;
· consumer protection issues and billing and collection of client-owed accounts issues;
· privacy and security of health-related information, client personal information and medical records;
· physical plant planning, construction of new facilities and expansion of our existing facility;
· activities regarding competitors;
· FDA laws and regulations related to drugs and medical devices;
· operational, personnel and quality requirements intended to ensure that clinical testing services are accurate, reliable and timely;
· health and safety of employees;
· handling, transportation and disposal of medical specimens and infectious and hazardous waste; and
· corporate practice of medicine, fee-splitting, self-referral and kickback prohibitions.

Failure to comply with these laws and regulations could result in the imposition of significant civil or criminal penalties, loss of license or certification or require us to change our operations, which may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Both federal and state government agencies as well as commercial payors have heightened and coordinated civil and criminal enforcement efforts as part of numerous ongoing investigations of healthcare organizations.

 

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We endeavor to comply with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements, however, there is no guarantee that we will be able to adhere to all of the complex government regulations that apply to our business. We seek to structure all of our relationships with physicians to comply with applicable anti-kickback laws, physician self-referral laws, fee-splitting laws and state corporate practice of medicine prohibitions. We monitor these laws and their implementing regulations and implement changes as necessary. However, the laws and regulations in these areas are complex and often subject to varying interpretations. For example, if an enforcement agency were to challenge the compensation paid under our contracts with professional physician groups, we could be required to change our practices, face criminal or civil penalties, pay substantial fines or otherwise experience a material adverse effect as a result.

 

Operators that fail to comply with governmental reimbursement programs such as Medicare or Medicaid, licensing and certification requirements, fraud and abuse regulations or new legislative developments may be unable to meet their obligations to us .

 

Our operators, are subject to numerous federal, state and local laws and regulations that are subject to frequent and substantial changes (sometimes applied retroactively) resulting from legislation, adoption of rules and regulations, and administrative and judicial interpretations of existing law. The ultimate timing or effect of these changes cannot be predicted. Government regulation may have a dramatic effect on our operators’ costs of doing business and the amount of reimbursement received by both government and other third-party payors. The failure of any of our operators to comply with these laws, requirements and regulations could adversely affect their ability to meet their obligations to us. These regulations include, among other items: hospital billing practices and prices for service; relationships with physicians and other referral sources; adequacy of medical care; quality of medical equipment and services; qualifications of medical and support personnel; the implementation of, and continued compliance with, electronic health records’ regulations; confidentiality, maintenance and security issues associated with health-related information and patient medical records; the screening, stabilization and transfer of patients who have emergency medical conditions; certification, licensure and accreditation of our facility; operating policies and procedures, and; construction or expansion of our current facility or future facilities and services.

 

If our operators fail to comply with applicable laws and regulations, they could be subjected to liabilities, including criminal penalties, civil penalties (including the loss of their licenses to operate one or more facilities), and exclusion of our facility from participation in the Medicare, Medicaid and other federal and state health care programs. The imposition of such penalties could jeopardize that operator’s ability to make lease or mortgage payments to us or to continue operating its facility.

 

Although operators of our acute care facility believe that their policies, procedures and practices comply with governmental regulations, no assurance can be given that they will not be subjected to governmental inquiries or actions, or that they would not be faced with sanctions, fines or penalties if so subjected. Because many of these laws and regulations are relatively new, in many cases, our operators don’t have the benefit of regulatory or judicial interpretation. In the future, it is possible that different interpretations or enforcement of these laws and regulations could subject their current or past practices to allegations of impropriety or illegality or could require them to make changes in the facilities, equipment, personnel, services, capital expenditure.

 

We derive a significant portion of our revenues from providing services to clients covered by third-party payors who could reduce their reimbursement rates or otherwise restrain our ability to obtain, or provide services to, clients. This risk is heightened because we are generally an “out-of-network” provider.

 

Managed care organizations and other third-party payors pay for the services that we provide to many of our clients. If any of these third-party payors reduce their reimbursement rates or elect not to cover some or all of our services, our business, financial condition and results of operations may decline. In addition to limiting the amounts payors will pay for the services we provide to their members, controls imposed by third-party payors designed to reduce admissions and the length of stay for clients, commonly referred to as “utilization review,” have affected and are expected to continue to affect our facility. Utilization review entails the review of the admission and course of treatment of a client by third-party payors. Inpatient utilization, average lengths of stay and occupancy rates continue to be negatively affected by payor-required preadmission authorization and utilization review and by payor pressure to maximize outpatient and alternative healthcare delivery services for less acutely ill clients. Efforts to impose more stringent cost controls are expected to continue. Although we are unable to predict the effect these controls and changes will have on our operations, significant limits on the scope of services reimbursed and on reimbursement rates and fees could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

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Changes to government healthcare programs, principally Medicare and Medicaid, have resulted in limitations on reimbursement and, in some cases, reduced levels of reimbursement for healthcare services in recent years. In particular, recent governmental measures to regulate clinical laboratory services have resulted in reduced prices, added costs and decreased test utilization. Although we do not currently bill Medicare or any other government healthcare program for our laboratory or other substance abuse treatment services, there is a risk that third-party commercial payors may implement similar changes. If the rates paid or the scope of laboratory or other substance abuse treatment services covered by third-party commercial payors are reduced, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.

 

We are considered an “out-of-network” provider with respect to the vast majority of third-party payors, and, therefore, we bill our full charges for services covered by such third-party payors. Third-party payors will generally attempt to limit use of out-of-network providers by requiring clients to pay higher copayment and/or deductible amounts for out-of-network care. Additionally, third-party payors have become increasingly aggressive in attempting to minimize the use of out-of-network providers by disregarding the assignment of payment from clients to out-of-network providers (i.e., sending payments to clients instead of out-of-network providers), capping out-of-network benefits payable to clients, waiving out-of-pocket payment amounts and initiating litigation against out-of-network providers for interference with contractual relationships, insurance fraud and violation of state licensing and consumer protection laws. If third-party payors impose further restrictions on out-of-network providers, our revenues could be threatened, forcing our facility to participate with third-party payors and accept lower reimbursement rates compared to our historic reimbursement rates.

 

Third-party payors also are entering into sole source contracts with some healthcare providers, which could effectively limit our pool of potential clients. Moreover, third-party payors are beginning to carve out specific services, including substance abuse treatment services, and establish small, specialized networks of providers for such services at fixed reimbursement rates. Continued growth in the use of carve-out arrangements could materially adversely affect our business to the extent we are not selected to participate in such smaller specialized networks or if the reimbursement rate is not adequate to cover the cost of providing the service.

 

Adverse economic conditions or reduced information technology and network infrastructure spending may adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

Our business depends on the overall demand for healthcare management services. Weak domestic or global economic conditions, fear or anticipation of such conditions or a reduction in information technology and network infrastructure spending even if economic conditions improve, could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects in a number of ways, including longer sales cycles, lower prices for our services, higher default rates among our distributors, reduced unit sales and lower or no growth. A prolonged period of economic uncertainty or a downturn may also significantly affect financing markets, the availability of capital and the terms and conditions of financing arrangements, including the overall cost of financing as well as the financial health or creditworthiness of our end customers. Circumstances may arise in which we need, or desire, to raise additional capital, and such capital may not be available on commercially reasonable terms, or at all.

 

A failure of one or more of our key information technology systems, networks, processes, associated sites, or service providers could have a negative impact on our business.

 

We rely on information technology (“IT”) systems, networks, and services, including internet sites, data hosting and processing facilities and tools, hardware (including laptops and mobile devices), software and technical applications and platforms, some of which are managed and hosted by third party vendors to assist us in the management of our business. The various uses of these IT systems, networks, and services include, but are not limited to: hosting our internal network and communication systems; enterprise resource planning; processing transactions; summarizing and reporting results of operations; business plans, and financial information; complying with regulatory, legal, or tax requirements; providing data security; and handling other processes necessary to manage our business. Although we have some offsite backup systems and a disaster recovery plan, any failure of our information systems could adversely impact our ability to operate. Routine maintenance or development of new information systems may result in systems failures, which may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, or results of operations.

 

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Increased IT security threats and more sophisticated cyber-crime pose a potential risk to the security of our IT systems, networks, and services, as well as the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of our data. This can lead to outside parties having access to our privileged data or strategic information, our employees, or our customers. Any breach of our data security systems or failure of our information systems may have a material adverse impact on our business operations and financial results. If the IT systems, networks, or service providers we rely upon fail to function properly, or if we suffer a loss or disclosure of business or other sensitive information due to any number of causes, ranging from catastrophic events to power outages to security breaches, and our disaster recovery plans do not effectively address these failures on a timely basis, we may suffer interruptions in our ability to manage operations and reputational, competitive, or business harm, which may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, or results of operations. In addition, such events could result in unauthorized disclosure of material confidential information, and we may suffer financial and reputational damage because of lost or misappropriated confidential information belonging to us or to our partners, our employees, customers, and suppliers. Although we maintain insurance coverage for various cybersecurity risks, in any of these events, we could also be required to spend significant financial and other resources to remedy the damage caused by a security breach or to repair or replace networks and IT systems.

 

We may be subject to liabilities from claims brought against our facility.

 

The doctors and facility we manage may be subject to medical malpractice lawsuits and other legal actions in the ordinary course of business that could also subject us to liability and corresponding legal actions. Some of these actions may involve large claims, as well as significant defense costs. We cannot predict the outcome of these lawsuits or the effect that findings in such lawsuits may have on us. All professional and general liability insurance we purchase is subject to policy limitations. We believe that, based on our past experience and actuarial estimates, our insurance coverage is adequate considering the claims arising from the operations of our facility. While we continuously monitor our coverage, our ultimate liability for professional and general liability claims could change materially from our current estimates. If such policy limitations should be partially or fully exhausted in the future, or payments of claims exceed our estimates or are not covered by our insurance, it could have a material adverse effect on our operations.

We could face liability from our customers, suppliers or government.

A customer, supplier or government agency may bring legal action against us based on the customer/ supplier relationships. Various state and federal laws govern our relationship with customers and suppliers. If we fail to comply with these laws, we could be liable for damages to customers or suppliers and fines or other penalties. Expensive litigation with our customers/suppliers or government agencies may adversely affect both our profits and our important relations with our customer/suppliers.

Litigation could adversely affect us by distracting management, increasing our expenses or subjecting us to material money damages and other remedies.

Our customers could file complaints or lawsuits against us alleging that we are responsible for some illness or injury their customers suffered at or after a visit to their stores, or that we have problems with food quality or operations. We are also subject to a variety of other claims arising in the ordinary course of our business, including personal injury claims, contract claims and claims alleging violations of federal and state law regarding workplace and employment matters, discrimination and similar matters, and we could become subject to class action or other lawsuits related to these or different matters in the future. Regardless of whether any claims against us are valid, or whether we are ultimately held liable, claims may be expensive to defend and may divert time and money away from our operations and hurt our performance. A judgment significantly in excess of our insurance coverage for any claims could materially and adversely affect our financial condition or results of operations. Any adverse publicity resulting from these allegations may also materially and adversely affect our reputation or prospects, which in turn could adversely affect our results.

 

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Risks Related to this Offering and Our Securities

 

The offering price of our shares has been arbitrarily determined.

 

Our management has determined the number and price of shares offered by the Company. The price of the shares we are offering was arbitrarily determined based upon the current market value, illiquidity and volatility of our Common Stock, our current financial condition and the prospects for our future cash flows and earnings, and market and economic conditions at the time of the Offering. The offering price for the Common Stock sold in this Offering may be more or less than the fair market value for our Common Stock.

 

We may not register or qualify our securities with any state agency pursuant to blue sky regulations.

 

The holders of shares of our Common Stock and persons who desire to purchase them in the future should be aware that there may be significant state law restrictions upon the ability of investors to resell our shares. We currently do not intend to and may not be able to qualify securities for resale in states which require shares to be qualified before they can be resold by our shareholders.

 

We have broad discretion in the use of the net proceeds from this Offering and may not use them effectively.

 

Our management will have broad discretion in the application of the net proceeds and may spend or invest these proceeds in a way with which our stockholders disagree. The failure by our management to apply these funds effectively could harm our business and financial condition. Pending their use, we may invest the net proceeds from this Offering in a manner that does not produce income or that loses value.

 

Investors may have difficulty in reselling their shares due to the lack of market.

 

Our Common Stock is not currently traded on any exchange, but is quoted on OTC Markets Pink marketplace under the trading symbol “PASO.” There is a limited trading market for our Common Stock. There is no guarantee that any significant market for our securities will ever develop. Further, the state securities laws may make it difficult or impossible to resell our shares in certain states. Accordingly, our securities should be considered highly illiquid.

   

We will be subject to penny stock regulations and restrictions and you may have difficulty selling shares of our Common Stock.

 

The SEC has adopted regulations which generally define so-called “penny stocks” to be an equity security that has a market price less than $5.00 per share or an exercise price of less than $5.00 per share, subject to certain exemptions. Our Common Stock is a “penny stock”, and we are subject to Rule 15g-9 under the Securities Exchange Act or 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), or the “Penny Stock Rule”. This rule imposes additional sales practice requirements on broker-dealers that sell such securities to persons other than established customers. For transactions covered by Rule 15g-9, a broker-dealer must make a special suitability determination for the purchaser and have received the purchaser’s written consent to the transaction prior to sale. As a result, this rule may affect the ability of broker-dealers to sell our securities and may affect the ability of purchasers to sell any of our securities in the secondary market.

 

For any transaction involving a penny stock, unless exempt, the rules require delivery, prior to any transaction in a penny stock, of a disclosure schedule prepared by the SEC relating to the penny stock market. Disclosure is also required to be made about sales commissions payable to both the broker-dealer and the registered representative and current quotations for the securities. Finally, monthly statements are required to be sent disclosing recent price information for the penny stock held in the account and information on the limited market in penny stock.

 

We do not anticipate that our Common Stock will qualify for exemption from the Penny Stock Rule. In any event, even if our Common stock were exempt from the Penny Stock Rule, we would remain subject to Section 15(b)(6) of the Exchange Act, which gives the SEC the authority to restrict any person from participating in a distribution of penny stock, if the SEC finds that such a restriction would be in the public interest.

 

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FINRA sales practice requirements may also limit a stockholders ability to buy and sell our stock.

 

In addition to the “penny stock” rules described above, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) has adopted rules that require that in recommending an investment to a customer, a broker- dealer must have reasonable grounds for believing that the investment is suitable for that customer. Prior to recommending speculative low priced securities to their non-institutional customers, broker-dealers must make reasonable efforts to obtain information about the customer's financial status, tax status, investment objectives and other information. Under interpretations of these rules, FINRA believes that there is a high probability that speculative low priced securities will not be suitable for at least some customers. FINRA requirements make it more difficult for broker-dealers to recommend that their customers buy our Common Stock, which may limit your ability to buy and sell our stock and have an adverse effect on the market for our shares.

 

The market price for our Common Stock is volatile, which could lead to wide fluctuations in our share price.

 

Our stock price is particularly volatile when compared to the shares of larger, more established companies that trade on a national securities exchange and have large public floats. The volatility in our share price is attributable to a number of factors. First, our Common Stock is sporadically and thinly traded. As a consequence of this limited liquidity, the trading of relatively small quantities of shares by our shareholders may disproportionately influence the price of those shares in either direction. The price for our shares could decline precipitously in the event that a large number of our Common Stock is sold on the market without commensurate demand. Secondly, we are a speculative or “risky” investment due to our limited operating history and lack of significant profits to date, and uncertainty of future market acceptance for our products. Many of these factors are beyond our control and may decrease the market price of our Common Stock, regardless of our operating performance. We cannot make any predictions or projections as to what the prevailing market price for our Common Stock will be at any time. Moreover, the OTC Pink marketplace is not a liquid market in contrast to the major stock exchanges. Consequently, you may be unable to sell your Common Stock at or above your purchase price, which may result in substantial losses to you. 

 

Purchasers of our Common Stock may experience immediate dilution and/or future dilution.

 

We are authorized to issue up to 750,000,000 shares of Common Stock, of which 194,855,992 shares were issued and outstanding as of August 8, 2018. Our board of directors has the authority to cause us to issue additional shares of Common Stock without consent of any of our stockholders and there are several classes of preferred stock that may be converted to Common Stock. Consequently, common stockholders may experience dilution in their ownership of our stock in the future and as a result of this Offering.

  

Our financials are not independently audited, which could result in errors and/or omissions in our financial statements if proper standards are not applied.

Although the Company is confident with the financial statements prepared by its accounting firm, Michael T. Studer CPA P.C., we are not required to have our financials audited by a certified Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”). As such, our accountants do not have a third party reviewing the accounting. Our accountants may also not be up to date with all publications and releases put out by the PCAOB regarding accounting standards and treatments. This could mean that our unaudited financials may not properly reflect up to date standards and treatments resulting misstated financials statements.

Our financial statements may be materially affected if our estimates prove to be inaccurate as a result of our limited experience in making critical accounting estimates.

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Financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP require the use of estimates, judgments and assumptions that affect the reported amounts. Different estimates, judgments and assumptions reasonably could be used that would have a material effect on the financial statements, and changes in these estimates, judgments and assumptions are likely to occur from period to period in the future. These estimates, judgments and assumptions are inherently uncertain, and, if they prove to be wrong, then we face the risk that charges to income will be required. In addition, because we have limited to no operating history and limited experience in making these estimates, judgments and assumptions, the risk of future charges to income may be greater than if we had more experience in these areas. Any such charges could significantly harm our business, financial condition, results of operations and the price of our securities. See Item 2 of the Notes to our Consolidated Financial Statements on page F-10 for a discussion of the accounting estimates, judgments and assumptions that we believe are the most critical to an understanding of our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

Our operating results may fluctuate significantly as a result of a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control, which could cause fluctuations in the price of our securities.

 

We are subject to the following factors that may negatively affect our operating results. As a result of our lack of any operating history and the nature of the markets in which we compete, it is difficult for us to forecast our revenues or earnings accurately. As a strategic response to changes in the competitive environment, we may from time to time make certain decisions concerning expenditures, pricing, service or marketing that could have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. Due to the foregoing factors, our quarterly revenues and operating results are difficult to forecast.

 

Shares eligible for future sale may have adverse effects on our share price.

 

We are offering 350,000,000 shares of our Common Stock, as described in this Offering Circular. We cannot predict the effect, if any, of future sales of our shares, or the availability of shares for future sales, on the market price of our shares. The market price of our shares may decline significantly when the restrictions on resale by certain of our stockholders lapse. Sales of substantial amounts of shares or the perception that such sales could occur may adversely affect the prevailing market price for our shares. After the completion of this Offering, we may issue additional shares in subsequent public offerings or private placements to make new investments or for other purposes. We are not required to offer any such shares to existing stockholders on a preemptive basis. Therefore, it may not be possible for existing stockholders to participate in such future share issuances, which may dilute the existing stockholders’ interests in us.

 

The rights of the holders of Common Stock may be impaired by the potential issuance of preferred stock.

 

Although we have no present intention to issue any additional shares of preferred stock, we may issue such shares in the future. If we were to issue shares of preferred stock, the rights of the holders of Common Stock could be impaired by such issuance of preferred stock. Currently, the Company has 10,000,000 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock authoirzed, issued and outstanding. See “Securities Being Offered.”

 

If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about our business, our stock price and trading volume could decline.

 

The trading market for our Common Stock will depend in part on the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us or our business. Securities and industry analysts do not currently, and may never, publish research on us. If no or too few securities or industry analysts commence coverage of us, the trading price for our stock would likely be negatively impacted. In the event securities or industry analysts initiate coverage, if one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrade our stock or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about our business, our stock price would likely decline. If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of us or fail to publish reports on us regularly, demand for our stock could decrease, which might cause our stock price and trading volume to decline.

 

We do not expect to pay dividends in the foreseeable future.

 

We do not intend to declare dividends for the foreseeable future, as we anticipate that we will reinvest any future earnings in the development and growth of our business. Therefore, investors will not receive any funds unless they sell their Common Stock, and stockholders may be unable to sell their shares on favorable terms or at all. We cannot assure you of a positive return on investment or that you will not lose the entire amount of your investment in our Common Stock.

 

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Our bylaws limit the liability of, and provide indemnification for, our officers and directors.

 

Our bylaws, provide that Company shall indemnify its officers and directors for any liability including reasonable costs of defense arising out of any act or omission of any officer or director on behalf of the Corporation to the full extent allowed by the laws of the State of Nevada, if the officer or director acted in good faith and in a manner the officer or director reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the conduct was unlawful. Thus, our company may be prevented from recovering damages for certain alleged errors or omissions by the officers and Directors for liabilities incurred in connection with their good faith acts for our company. Such an indemnification payment might deplete our assets. Stockholders who have questions respecting the fiduciary obligations of the officers and Directors of our company should consult with independent legal counsel. It is the position of the SEC that exculpation from and indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act and the rules and regulations thereunder is against public policy and therefore unenforceable.

 

Failure to achieve and maintain internal controls in accordance with Sections 302 and 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 could have a material adverse effect on our business and stock price.

 

If we fail to maintain adequate internal controls or fail to implement required new or improved controls, as we grow or as such control standards are modified, supplemented or amended from time to time; we may not be able to assert that we can conclude on an ongoing basis that we have effective internal controls over financial reporting. Effective internal controls are necessary for us to produce reliable financial reports and are important in the prevention of financial fraud. If we cannot produce reliable financial reports or prevent fraud, our business and operating results could be harmed, investors could lose confidence in our reported financial information, and there could be a material adverse effect on our stock price.

 

Because the risk factors referred to above, as well as other risks not mentioned above, could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements made by us, you should not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. Further, any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made or reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict which ones will arise. In addition, we cannot assess the impact of each factor on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements.

   

DILUTION

 

Investors in this Offering will experience immediate dilution from the sale of shares by the Company. If you invest in our shares, your interest will be diluted to the extent of the difference between the public offering price per share of our Common Stock and the as adjusted net tangible book value per share of our capital stock after this Offering. Net tangible book value per share represents our total tangible assets less total liabilities, divided by the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding. Net tangible book value dilution per share of Common Stock to new investors represents the difference between the amount per share paid by purchasers in this Offering and the as adjusted net tangible book value per share of Common Stock immediately after completion of this Offering.

 

As of April 30, 2018, our net tangible book value was estimated at approximately 6,720,000, or approximately $0.035 per share. After giving effect to our sale of the maximum offering amount of $3,500,000 in securities, assuming no other changes since April 30, 2018, our as-adjusted net tangible book value would be approximately 18,662,545, or $0.03 per share. At an offering price of $.01 per share, this represents an immediate dilution in net tangible book value of $0.005 per share to investors of this Offering, as illustrated in the following table:

 

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Public offering price per share   $ 0.01
Net tangible book value per share   $ 0.011
Change in net tangible book value per share attributable to new investors   $ 0.001
Adjusted net tangible book value per share   $ 0.011
Dilution per share to new investors in the offering   $ 0.024

 

The above calculations are based on 194,855,992 common shares issued and outstanding as of August 8, 2018 before adjustments of up to 544,855,992 common shares of Common Stocks to be outstanding after adjustment, assuming the Offering is completed without additional shares issued, assets acquired or liabilities incurred.

 

PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

 

We are offering up to 350,000,000 shares of our Common Stock for $0.01 per share, for a total of up to $3,500,000 in gross offering proceeds, assuming all securities are sold. The minimum investment for any investor is $500, unless such minimum is waived by the Company, which may be done in its sole discretion on a case-by-case basis. There is no minimum offering amount or provision to escrow or return investor funds if any minimum number of shares is not sold, and we may sell significantly fewer shares of Common Stock than those offered hereby. In fact, there can be no assurances that the Company will sell any or all of the offered shares. All funds received from the Company will be immediately available for its use.

 

Our Common Stock is not now listed on any national securities exchange; however, the Company’s Common Stock is quoted on OTC Markets Pink marketplace. There is currently only a limited market for our securities and there is no guarantee that a more substantial or active trading market will develop in the future. There is also no guarantee that our securities will ever trade on any listed exchange. Accordingly, our shares should be considered highly illiquid, which inhibits investors’ ability to resell their shares.

 

Upon this Offering Circular being qualified by the SEC, the Offering will be conducted as a continuous offering (and not on a delay basis) pursuant to Rule 251(d)(3)(f) of the Regulation A under the Securities Act, however, this Offering will terminate one year from the initial qualification date of this Offering Circular, unless extended or terminated by the Company. The Company may terminate this Offering at any time and may also extend the Offering term by 90 days.

  

Currently, we plan to have our directors and executive officers and directors sell the shares offered hereby on a best-efforts basis. They will receive no discounts or commissions. Our executive officers will deliver this Offering Circular to those persons who they believe might have interest in purchasing all or a part of this Offering. The Company may generally solicit investors; however, it must abide by the “blue sky” regulations relating to investor solicitation in the states where it will solicit investors. All shares will be offered on a “best efforts” basis.

  

Our directors and officers will not register as broker-dealers under Section 15 of the Exchange Act in reliance upon Rule 3a4-1. Rule 3a4-1 sets forth those conditions under which a person associated with an issuer may participate in the offering of the issuer’s securities and not be deemed to be a broker-dealer. The conditions are that:

 

· the person is not statutorily disqualified, as that term is defined in Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”), at the time of his participation; and

 

· the person is not at the time of their participation an associated person of a broker-dealer; and

 

· the person meets the conditions of paragraph (a)(4)(ii) of Rule 3a4-1 of the Exchange Act, in that he (i) primarily performs, or is intended primarily to perform at the end of the offering, substantial duties for or on behalf of the issuer otherwise than in connection with transactions in securities; and (ii) is not a broker or dealer, or an associated person of a broker or dealer, within the preceding 12 months; and (iii) does not participate in selling and offering of securities for any issuer more than once every 12 months other than in reliance on paragraphs (a)(4)(i) or (a)(4)(iii) of Rule 3a4-1 of the Exchange Act.

 

Our officers and directors are not statutorily disqualified, are not being compensated, and are not associated with a broker-dealer. They are and will continue to hold their positions as officers or directors following the completion of the offering and have not been during the past 12 months and are currently not brokers or dealers or associated with brokers or dealers. They have not nor will they participate in the sale of securities of any issuer more than once every 12 months.

 

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As of the date of this Offering Circular, we have not entered into any arrangements with any selling agents for the sale of our Common Stock; however, we may engage one or more selling agents to sell our Common Stock in the future. If we elect to do so, we will supplement this Offering Circular as appropriate.

All subscription agreements and checks received by the Company for the purchase of shares are irrevocable until accepted or rejected by the Company and should be delivered to the Company as provided in the subscription agreement. A subscription agreement executed by a subscriber is not binding on the Company until it is accepted on our behalf by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer or by specific resolution of our board of directors. Any subscription not accepted within 30 days will be automatically deemed rejected. Once accepted, the Company will deliver a stock certificate to a purchaser within five days from request by the purchaser; otherwise purchasers’ shares will be noted and held on the book records of the Company.  

In various states, the securities may not be sold unless these securities have been registered or qualified for sale in such state or an exemption from registration or qualification is available and is complied with.  We have not yet applied for “blue sky” registration in any state, and there can be no assurance that we will be able to apply, or that our application will be approved and our securities will be registered, in any state in the US. We intend to sell the shares only in the states in which this Offering has been qualified or an exemption from the registration requirements is available, and purchases of shares may be made only in those states.

Should any fundamental change occur regarding the status of this Offering or other matters concerning the Company, we will file an amendment to this Offering Circular disclosing such matters.

OTC Markets Considerations

 

The OTC Markets is separate and distinct from the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq stock market or other national exchange. Neither the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq has a business relationship with issuers of securities quoted on the OTC Markets. The SEC’s order handling rules, which apply to New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq-listed securities, do not apply to securities quoted on the OTC Markets.

 

Although other national stock markets have rigorous listing standards to ensure the high quality of their issuers, and can delist issuers for not meeting those standards; the OTC Markets has no listing standards. Rather, it is the market maker who chooses to quote a security on the system, files the application, and is obligated to comply with keeping information about the issuer in its files.

 

Investors may have greater difficulty in getting orders filled than if we were on Nasdaq or other exchanges. Trading activity in general is not conducted as efficiently and effectively on OTC Markets as with exchange-listed securities. Also, because OTC Markets stocks are usually not followed by analysts, there may be lower trading volume than New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq-listed securities.

 

  USE OF PROCEEDS TO ISSUER

 

The following table illustrates the amount of net proceeds to be received by the Company on the sale of shares by the Company and the intended uses of such proceeds, over an approximate 12 month period.

 

Capital Sources and Uses
      100%    
Gross Offering Proceeds   $ 3,500,000    
Offering Expenses   $ 50,000    
Net Offering Proceeds   $ 3,450,000    
           
Use of Proceeds:          
Computer Hardware (1)   $ 1,539,000    
Marketing (2)   $ 500,000    
           

 

Professional Fees and Staff (3)   $ 715,000    
Leasehold Improvements (4)   $ 46,000    
General Working Capital (5)   $ 650,000    
Total   $ 3,450,000    

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(1) Assuming that all of shares offered hereby are sold in the Offering, we intend to purchase printers, data servers, touch screen tablets, software for the management of electronic medical records, uniform power source devices and medical equipment for diagnostic purposes in examination rooms for our current facility and future facilities.
(2) We intend to spend approximately $150,000 on collateral print marketing materials, and approximately $500,000 on online advertising. See “Description of Business -- Marketing and Advertising.”
(3) We will use the proceeds of this Offering, if successful, to pay for required staff hiring, billing service support and officer compensation. We will also use proceeds to pay for the approximately $50,000 in legal, accounting and other professional expenses associated with this Offering.
(4) We intend to make leasehold improvements on our current facility and future facilities, including state of the art exams rooms.

(5) We will use working capital to pay for miscellaneous and general operating expenses, including certain management fees and overhead.


The allocation of the use of proceeds among the categories of anticipated expenditures represents management’s best estimates based on the current status of the Company’s proposed operations, plans, investment objectives, capital requirements, and financial conditions. Future events, including changes in economic or competitive conditions of our business plan or the completion of less than the total Offering amount, may cause the Company to modify the above-described allocation of proceeds. The Company’s use of proceeds may vary significantly in the event any of the Company’s assumptions prove inaccurate. We reserve the right to change the allocation of net proceeds from the Offering as unanticipated events or opportunities arise. Additionally, the Company may from time to time need to raise more capital to address future needs.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

 

 

Overview

 

Patient Access Solutions Inc. was incorporated in the state of Nevada on March 17, 2006. Its wholly owned subsidiary, PAS Health Management Companies NY, Inc., was incorporated in the state of New York on October 1, 2015, through which the Company provides administrative, management, and facility services to health care providers in Plainview, New York. The Company also rents equipment to other health care providers, including a number of the Company’s PAS Web Portal Systems and PAS Point of Sale solutions.

 

Integrative Medical Health Care of Plainview, PC d/b/a The CIIT Center of Plainview

 

On January 1, 2017, Patient Access Solutions Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary, PASHealth Management Companies NY Inc., entered into an Administrative and Management Services Agreement (the “CIIT Agreement”) with Integrative Medical Health Care of Plainview, PC d/b/a The CIIT Center of Plainview (the “Plainview PC”), which is wholly owned by Dr. Muneer Imam. The CIIT Agreement provides that the Company will provide all medical equipment, furniture and fixtures, rental space, medical supplies, non-professional staff, management, administrative and collection services to the health care practice in the Center for Integrative and Innovative Therapies (“CIIT”) Medical Center for the term of the CIIT Agreement, which is five years long and automatically renews for one year terms unless either party to the CIIT Agreement notifies the other party no less than 120 days prior to the expiration of the term then in effect that the CIIT Agreement will not be renewed. The CIIT Agreement also requires Plainview PC to pay the Company minimum compensation of $60,000 per month ($35,000 management fees and $25,000 facility fees).

 

Furthermore, the Company leases a 12,500 square foot facility located in Plainview, New York in which the CIIT provides services. In that facility, the CIIT through its two doctors provides specialty care for chronic health conditions including autism, concussion, PTSD, traumatic brain injuries and numerous other brain related, and biomedical conditions including depression, anxiety, thyroid conditions and much more. See “Description of Business -- Employees” for more information on the CIIT’s two doctors.

 

Legacy PAS Web Portal and Point of Sale Solution Rentals

 

As previously noted, the Company also rents equipment to other health care providers under its previous line of business. Accordingly, approximately 50 of the Company’s PAS Web Portal Systems and PAS Point Sale Solution rental clients still utilize the Company’s services.

 

Growth Strategy

 

In the next twelve to eighteen months, the Company expects to enter into management agreements similar to th e CIIT Agreement with facilities in other parts of New York, such as the borough of Queens. The Company will target facilities that offer autism and concussion management treatment protocols, similar to the protocols created by the CIIT’s founding two doctors.

 

Marketing and Advertising

 

We intend to market and create a presence in our each of managed fecilities local community and beyond the tri-state area by having our medical team give educational presentations at high school and junior high school events for parents, association meetings, and having our staff engage in volunteer work, business society meetings, and other grassroots efforts. Our medical team plans to present to the New York chapter of the National Autism Association, as well as the Nassau Suffolk Chapter of the Autism Society of America.

 

In addition, our strategy will be based on communicating our value to the targeted segments. This will be done through a variety of methods. The first method will be strategically placed online advertisements on websites such as http://www.nyspecialparent.com, http://parentingspecialneeds.org/, http://www.eparent.com/, http://www.specialneedsalliance.org/, and http://nyspecialneeds.com/. Information contained on or accessible through these websites is not a part of this Offering Circular and should not be relied upon in determining whether to make an investment decision. Second, we also intend to distribute a number of printed materials to many autism-focused associations in New York.

 

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Competition and Industry Background

 

The healthcare industry is highly competitive, and competition among healthcare providers (including hospitals) for patients, doctors and other healthcare professionals has intensified in recent years. There are other healthcare facilities that provide services comparable to at least some of those offered by our facility. Some of our competitors are owned by tax-supported governmental agencies or by nonprofit corporations and may have certain financial advantages not available to us, including endowments, charitable contributions, tax-exempt financing and exemptions from sales, property and income taxes.

 

If our competitors are better able to attract patients, recruit and retain psychiatrists, physicians and other healthcare professionals, expand services or obtain favorable managed care contracts at their facilities, we may experience a decline in patient volume and our results of operations may be adversely affected.

 

Research and Development

 

Our research and development efforts consist primarily of the development of our knowledge base and expansion of the modalities we offer for the treatment of individuals with nuero-specific underlying issues, such as traumatic brain injuries, concussions and autism.

 

Intellectual Property

 

Our policy will be to seek to protect and enhance the proprietary products, inventions, and improvements that are commercially important to our business, including seeking, maintaining, and defending intellectual property rights, whether developed internally or acquired from third parties. However, as of this time, there is no aspect of our business which is protected by patents, copyrights, trademarks, or trade names. Thus, we currently only rely on trade secrets and know-how in relation to protection of proprietary aspects our business.

 

Government Regulations and Environmental Quality

 

The products and services that we provide are regulated by federal, state and foreign governmental authorities. Failure to comply with the applicable laws and regulations can subject us to repayment of amounts previously paid to us, significant civil and criminal penalties, loss of licensure, certification, or accreditation, or exclusion from government healthcare programs. The significant areas of regulation are summarized below.

 

HIPAA and HITECH

 

Under the administrative simplification provisions of HIPAA, as amended by the HITECH Act, the HHS issued regulations that establish uniform standards governing the conduct of certain electronic healthcare transactions and protecting the privacy and security of protected health information used or disclosed by healthcare providers and other covered entities. Three principal regulations with which we are required to comply have been issued in final form under HIPAA: privacy regulations, security regulations, and standards for electronic transactions, which establish standards for common healthcare transactions. The privacy and security regulations were extensively amended in 2013 to incorporate requirements from the HITECH Act.

 

The privacy regulations cover the use and disclosure of protected health information by healthcare providers and other covered entities. They also set forth certain rights that an individual has with respect to his or her protected health information maintained by a covered entity, including the right to access or amend certain records containing protected health information, or to request restrictions on the use or disclosure of protected health information. The security regulations establish requirements for safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected health information that is electronically transmitted or electronically stored. The HITECH Act, among other things, makes certain of HIPAA’s privacy and security standards applicable to business associates of covered entities, and established certain protected health information security breach notification requirements. A covered entity must notify affected individual(s) and the HHS when there is a breach of unsecured protected health information. The HIPAA privacy and security regulations establish a uniform federal “floor” that covered entities and their business associates must meet and do not supersede state laws that are more stringent or provide individuals with greater rights with respect to the privacy or security of, and access to, their records containing protected health information. HIPAA also governs patient access to laboratory test reports. Effective October 6, 2014, individuals (or their personal representatives, as applicable), have the right to access test reports directly from clinical laboratories and to direct that copies of those test reports be transmitted to persons or entities designated by the individual.

 

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These laws contain significant fines and other penalties for wrongful use or disclosure of protected health information. Additionally, to the extent that we submit electronic healthcare claims and payment transactions that do not comply with the electronic data transmission standards established under HIPAA and the HITECH Act, payments to us may be delayed or denied.

 

In addition to the federal privacy regulations, there are a number of state laws regarding the privacy and security of health information and personal data that are applicable to our operations. The compliance requirements of these laws, including additional breach reporting requirements, and the penalties for violation vary widely and new privacy and security laws in this area are evolving. Massachusetts, for example, has a state law that protects the privacy and security of personal information of Massachusetts residents that is more prescriptive than HIPAA. Many states have also implemented genetic testing and privacy laws imposing specific patient consent requirements and protecting test results. In some cases, we are prohibited from conducting certain tests without a certification of patient consent by the physician ordering the test. Requirements of these laws and penalties for violations vary widely. We believe that we have taken the steps required of us to comply with health information privacy and security statutes and regulations in all jurisdictions, both state and federal. However, we may not be able to maintain compliance in all jurisdictions where we do business. Failure to maintain compliance, or changes in state or federal laws regarding privacy or security, could result in civil and/or criminal penalties and could have a material adverse effect on our business.

 

Federal state and foreign fraud and abuse laws

 

In the United States, there are various fraud and abuse laws with which we must comply and we are potentially subject to regulation by various federal, state and local authorities, including CMS, other divisions of the HHS (e.g., the Office of Inspector General), the U.S. Department of Justice, and individual U.S. Attorney offices within the Department of Justice, and state and local governments. We also may be subject to foreign fraud and abuse laws.

 

In the United States, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute prohibits, among other things, knowingly and willfully offering, paying, soliciting or receiving remuneration to induce, or in return for patient referrals for, or purchasing, leasing, ordering, recommending or arranging for the purchase, lease or order of, any healthcare item or service reimbursable under a governmental payor program. Courts have stated that a financial arrangement may violate the Anti-Kickback Statute if any one purpose of the arrangement is to encourage patient referrals or other federal healthcare program business, regardless of whether there are other legitimate purposes for the arrangement. The definition of “remuneration” has been broadly interpreted to include anything of value, including gifts, discounts, credit arrangements, payments of cash, consulting fees, waivers of co-payments, ownership interests, and providing anything at less than its fair market value. Recognizing that the Anti-Kickback Statute is broad and may technically prohibit many innocuous or beneficial arrangements within the healthcare industry, the HHS issued a series of regulatory “safe harbors.” These safe harbor regulations set forth certain provisions, which, if met, will assure healthcare providers and other parties that they will not be prosecuted under the federal Anti-Kickback Statute. Although full compliance with these provisions ensures against prosecution under the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, the failure of a transaction or arrangement to fit within a specific safe harbor does not necessarily mean that the transaction or arrangement is illegal or that prosecution under the federal Anti-Kickback Statute will be pursued. Many states also have anti-kickback statutes, some of which may apply to items or services reimbursed by any third-party payor, including commercial insurers.

 

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In addition, federal false claims laws, including the federal civil False Claims Act, prohibit, among other things, any person or entity from knowingly presenting, or causing to be presented, a false claim for payment to, or approval by, the federal government or knowingly making, using, or causing to be made or used a false record or statement material to a false or fraudulent claim to the federal government. As a result of a modification made by the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009, a claim includes “any request or demand” for money or property presented to the U.S. government. Recently, several pharmaceutical and other healthcare companies have been prosecuted under these laws for allegedly providing free product to customers with the expectation that the customers would bill federal programs for the product. Other companies have been prosecuted for causing false claims to be submitted because of the companies’ marketing of the product for unapproved, and thus generally non-reimbursable, uses. The civil monetary penalties statute imposes penalties against any person or entity who, among other things, is determined to have presented or caused to be presented a claim to a federal health program that the person knows or should know is for an item or service that was not provided as claimed or is false or fraudulent.

 

HIPAA created additional federal criminal statutes that prohibit knowingly and willfully executing, or attempting to execute, a scheme to defraud or to obtain, by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises, any money or property owned by, or under the control or custody of, any healthcare benefit program, including private third-party payors and knowingly and willfully falsifying, concealing or covering up by trick, scheme or device, a material fact or making any materially false, fictitious or fraudulent statement in connection with the delivery of or payment for healthcare benefits, items or services.

 

In addition, various states have enacted false claim laws analogous to the federal False Claims Act, although many of these state laws apply where a claim is submitted to any third-party payor and not merely a governmental payor program. If our operations are found to be in violation of any of the federal and state healthcare laws described above or any other governmental regulations that apply to us, we may be subject to significant penalties, including without limitation, civil, criminal and/or administrative penalties, damages, fines, disgorgement, exclusion from participation in government programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, injunctions, private “qui tam” actions brought by individual whistleblowers in the name of the government, or refusal to allow us to enter into government contracts, contractual damages, reputational harm, administrative burdens, diminished profits and future earnings, and the curtailment or restructuring of our operations, any of which could adversely affect our ability to operate our business and our results of operations.

 

Federal and state physician self - referral prohibitions

 

Under a federal law directed at “self-referral,” commonly known as the “Stark Law,” there are prohibitions, with certain exceptions, on referrals for certain designated health services, including laboratory services, that are covered by the Medicare and Medicaid programs by physicians who personally, or through a family member, have an investment or ownership interest in, or a compensation arrangement with, an entity performing the tests. The prohibition also extends to payment for any testing referred in violation of the Stark Law. A person who engages in a scheme to circumvent the Stark Law’s referral prohibition may be fined up to $100,000 for each such arrangement or scheme. In addition, any person who presents or causes to be presented a claim to the Medicare or Medicaid programs in violation of the Stark Law is subject to civil monetary penalties of up to $15,000 per bill submission, an assessment of up to three times the amount claimed and possible exclusion from participation in federal governmental payor programs. Bills submitted in violation of the Stark Law may not be paid by Medicare or Medicaid, and any person collecting any amounts with respect to any such prohibited bill is obligated to refund such amounts. Many states have comparable laws that are not limited to Medicare and Medicaid referrals.

 

Corporate practice of medicine

 

Numerous states have enacted laws prohibiting business corporations, such as us, from practicing medicine and employing or engaging physicians to practice medicine, generally referred to as the prohibition against the corporate practice of medicine. These laws are designed to prevent interference in the medical decision-making process by anyone who is not a licensed physician. Violation of these corporate practice of medicine laws may result in civil or criminal fines, as well as sanctions imposed against us and/or the physician through licensure proceedings. Typically such laws are only applicable to entities that have a physical presence in the state.

 

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Health reform

 

The United States and some foreign jurisdictions are considering or have enacted a number of legislative and regulatory proposals designed to change the healthcare system in ways that could affect our business. In the United States, there is significant interest in promoting changes in the health care system with the stated goal of containing healthcare costs, improving quality or expanding access. For example, the ACA contains certain measures that may be significant for our business. The ACA includes, among other things, provisions regarding initiatives to revise Medicare payment methodologies; the coordination and promotion of research on comparative clinical effectiveness of different technologies and procedures; and initiatives to promote quality indicators in payment methodologies. The ACA also includes an annual excise tax on device manufacturers of 2.3% of the price for which manufacturers sell their devices. The excise tax has been temporarily suspended for calendar years 2016 and 2017, but will be reinstated in 2018 without additional Congressional action. There have been judicial and Congressional challenges to certain aspects of the ACA, and we expect additional challenges and amendments in the future. We are monitoring the impact of the ACA in order to enable us to determine the trends and changes that may be necessitated by the legislation and that, in turn, may potentially impact our business over time.

 

There have been other health reform measures taken since the enactment of the ACA. For example, the Budget Control Act of 2011, among other things, created measures for spending reductions by Congress. A Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, tasked with recommending a targeted deficit reduction of at least $1.2 trillion for the years 2013 through 2021, was unable to reach required goals, thereby triggering the legislation’s automatic reduction (known as sequestration) to several government programs. This includes aggregate reductions to Medicare payments to providers of 2% per fiscal year, beginning April 1, 2013, which, following passage of subsequent legislation, will remain in effect through 2025 unless additional Congressional action is taken. Furthermore, on

 

January 2, 2013, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 was signed into law, which, among other things, increased the statute of limitations for the government to recover overpayments to providers from three years to five years.

 

We cannot predict whether future health reform initiatives will be implemented at the federal or state level or in countries outside of the United States in which we may do business in the future, or the effect any future legislation or regulation will have on us.

 

Corporate History

 

We were incorporated as Blue Mountain Resources Inc. on March 17, 2006 under the laws of the state of Nevada. Our initial business was to conduct mineral exploration activities on a property in Silver Vista, Nevada, in order to assess whether that property possessed economic reserves of copper and silver. Subsequently, we did not identify any economic mineralization on the property and the business was abandoned.

On March 31, 2008, Patient Access Solutions Inc., a New York corporation, the Company and Blue Mountain Acquisition Subsidiary Corp., a Florida corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger whereby Patient Access Solutions Inc., was merged into the Company (the “Merger Agreement”). Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement, the shareholders of Patient Access Solutions Inc. received an aggregate of 2,900,000 shares of Blue Mountain Resources Inc. common stock.

On June 2, 2008, we changed our name from Blue Mountain Resources, Inc. to Patient Access Solutions Inc. and enacted a forward stock split of 7.25-1, payable upon surrender of our shareholders stock certificates. All numbers in this Offering Circular reflect the forward stock split.

After the corporate changes discussed above, the Company’s business purpose focused on the development and marketing of the PAS Health Web Portal System and PAS Point of Sale terminal solution, both of which offered electronic medical eligibility, electronic referrals, service authorizations and electronic claims processing.

 

In April of 2016, the Company decided to effectively terminate its pursuit of a software business and instead turned its focus to the management of healthcare facilities. In January 2017, Patient Access Solutions, Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary, PASHealth Management Companies NY, Inc., entered into the CIIT Agreement, and begain its healthcare facility management business in earnest.

 

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Corporate Information

 

Our principal executive offices are located at 131 Sunnyside Boulevard, Suite 100, Plainview, New York 11803. Our telephone number is (631) 241-9404. The address of our website is www.passhealth.com. Information contained on or accessible through our website is not a part of this Offering Circular and should not be relied upon in determining whether to make an investment decision.

 

The Company’s securities are currently quoted on the OTC Markets Group Inc.’s OTC Pink marketplace under the symbol “PASO.”

 

Employees

 

As of August 8, 2018, we had 11 total employees, all of which were full-time employees. None of our employees are represented by a union or parties to a collective bargaining agreement. We believe our employee relations to be good.

 

Some of our key employees are the doctors that practice in and are employed at the CIIT. Their biographies are below.

 

Dr. Muneer Imam

 

Dr. Imam is one of the most sought-after pulmonologists in New York, with over 31 years of experience. He is a board certified multi-specialist who has a keen interest in working with children with autism. Dr. Imam specializes in the practice of internal medicine, pulmonary diseases, clinical nutrition and critical care. Dr. Imam has served as a Medical Director for multiple medical centers, focusing on the quality of patient care. He is also the Chief Operating Officer of Doctor's Wellness Center- a center for integrative medicine which specializes in combining the mainstream medicine with oral and intravenous nutrition therapies to prevent life threatening illnesses. Dr. Imam recently completed a Master's Degree program through Columbia University in Clinical Nutrition. He has pioneered many novel therapies which have proven to create outstanding positive outcomes in all those patients under his care. Dr. Imam spearheads the integration of the CIIT’s staff and concentrates on the recruitment of physician specialists, which includes facilitating his treatment protocol.

 

Dr. James Halper

 

Dr. Halper is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Psychiatry. He attended Columbia College and College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University, did his residency training in Medicine at Columbia Presbyterian and Stanford University Hospitals, and trained in Psychiatry at Payne-Whitney Clinic (New York Hospital). He completed research fellowships at the National Institutes of Health, Rockefeller University, and Payne Whitney Clinic and is the recipient of numerous research awards and the author of many scientific and medical articles and book chapters. Dr. Halper has directed many clinical programs, including Psychopharmacology at North Shore University Hospital , the Psychiatry Out Patient Clinic at Lenox Hill Hospital, and both the Psychotic Disorders Program and ECT Service at Payne Whitney Clinic. Dr.Halper is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine. Dr Halper is well known for his innovative use of a variety of treatment modalities for patients with refractory psychiatric disorders as well as mood disorders, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and many other conditions. Dr. Halper conducts all psychiatric testing and diagnosing at the CIIT.

 

Legal Proceedings

 

We are not currently a party to any material legal proceedings. Although we are not currently a party any material legal proceedings, from time to time, we may be subject to various other legal proceedings and claims that are routine and incidental to our business. Although some of these proceedings may result in adverse decisions or settlements, management believes that the final disposition of such matters will not have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY

 

The following table summarizes pertinent details of our properties as of August 8, 2018:

Location Owned or Leased Lease Expiration Type of Property
131 Sunnyside Boulevard, Suite 100, Plainview, New York 11803  Leased March 31, 2027 CIIT and Principal Executive Office

 

CITT and Principal Executive Office

 

The Company leases the 12,500 square foot facility located in Plainview, New York in which the CIIT provides services. On August 24, 2016, the Company executed an Agreement of Lease with 131 Sunnyside LLC, a New York limited liability company, for approximately 12,500 square feet of office space in Plainview New York. The term of the lease is 10 years and 3 months commencing January 1, 2017 and ending March 31, 2027. The monthly rent ranges from $22,917 per month in year 1 to $30,798 per month in year 11.

 

Rent expense for the nine months ended October 31, 2017 and 2016 was $186,292 and $2,304, respectively. Rent expense for the years ended October 31, 2016 and 2015 was $9,544 and $0, respectively.

 

As of August 8, 2018, the future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases were:

 

Year Ending October 31,   Amount
2017 $    68,750
2018     281,875
2019  290,331
2020   299,041
2021 308,012
2022 317,253
Thereafter 1,519,282
   
Total $ 3,084,544

MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF

FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

Patient Access Solutions Inc. was incorporated in the state of Nevada on March 17, 2006. Its wholly owned subsidiary, PAS Health Management Companies NY, Inc., was incorporated in the state of New York on October 1, 2015, through which the Company provides administrative, management, and facility services to health care providers in Plainview, New York. The Company also rents equipment to other health care providers, including a number of the Company’s PAS Web Portal Systems and PAS Point of Sale solutions customers.

 

  1.   Plan of Operation: Issuer’s Plan of Operation for the next twelve months.

 

The Company plans to enter into a management contract with at least one additional healthcare facility within the next 12 months, and subsequently, at least one additional facility per year for the next 5 years.

 

  1. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

For the six months ended April 30, 2018 and 2017 (Unaudited)

 

Revenues

 

For the six months ended April 30, 2018, our revenue was $877,342 compared to $20,449 for the same period in 2017. The increase in revenue of $856,893 was from the revenue derived from management fees and services created by the CIIT centers, and payable to the Company. Additionally, we closed the Inman Medical PC d/b/a the CIIT Center of Moriches on October 1, 2017, as this facility cost 68% were their monthly revenue generated by that facility. In doing so, we were able to bring Inman Medical PC d/b/a the CIIT Center of Moriches’ assets to the Plainview PC location and still maintained a large base of patients.

 

Operating Expenses

 

For the six months ended April 30, 2018, our operating expenses were $6,753,411 compared to $401,480 for the same period in 2017.   The increase in operating expenses of $6,351,931 was as a result of increased operating costs from the management of the Plainview PC location, after its opening in January 2017 and the issuance of 15,000,000 shares of restricted Common Stock at a strike price of $0.29 per share, when issued. The cost of issuance of stock at a price for above market price was added into the value of consulting fees at $5,051,303, thereby creating a significant, but unique operating expense on the books.

 

Income/Losses

 

Net losses were $(5,864,044) and $ (381,031) for the six months ended April 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively.  The increase in losses of was due to Common Stock being issued far above market price. Furthermore, losses were increased as by the closing of the also generated with the closing of the Inman Medical PC d/b/a the CIIT Center of Moriches.

 

The Company plans to improve its financial condition by generating positive cash flow from future business operations, such expanding to outpatient services, rendered by our doctors and staff, working with assisted living facilities that do not over some of the services we offer at the center. We will also have the ability to transport patients in to the CIIT from other facilities to offer services. This will give us the opportunity to also potentially by obtaining additional financing beyond the proceeds from the Offering.

 

For the years ended October 31, 2017 and 2016 (Unaudited)

 

Revenues

 

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For the year ended October 31, 2017, our revenue was $1,800,232, compared to $292,250 for the same period in 2016. The increase in revenue of $1,507,982 was from fees generated by the opening and commencement of operations at the CIIT in January 2017.

 

Operating Expenses

 

We had operating expenses of $1,628,584 and $18,630 for the years ended October 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively. The increase in operating expenses of $609,954 was as result of increased operating costs from the management of the CIIT, after its opening in January 2017. 

 

Income/Losses

 

Net income was $(192,213) and $(20,174) for the years ended October 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively. The Company plans to improve its financial condition by obtaining additional financing and by generating positive cash flow from suture business operations.

 

Impact of Inflation

 

We believe that inflation has had a negligible effect on operations since inception. We believe that we can offset inflationary increases in the cost of operations by increasing sales and improving operating efficiencies.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

During the six months ended April 30, 2018, net cash flows used by operating activities were ($2,064,047). During the six months ended April 30, 2017, net cash flows provided by operating activities were $(172,078). The difference of $(1,891,969) was a result of building and expansion of the CIIT, along with the issuance of restricted stock to management.

 

During the year ended October 31, 2017, net cash flows used by operating activities were $(504,751). During the year ended October 31, 2016, net cash flows provided by operating activities were $(20,174). The difference of $524,925 was a result of the commencement of operations of the CIIT in January 2017. the cost of building and development of the CIIT, and the Company’s related efforts to shift its strategy and business model to the current one, of managing healthcare facilities. Cash on hand as of October 31, 2017 was $59,484 compared to cash of $20,178 in the prior year.

 

On a short-term basis, with anticipated growth, we may be required to raise significant additional funds over the next 12 months to support operations. On a long-term basis, we may need to raise capital to grow and develop our new businesses. If we are unable to raise the needed funds on an acceptable basis, we may be forced to cease operations.

 

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

The Company has no off-balance sheet arrangements.

DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND SIGNIFICANT EMPLOYEES

 

Our board of directors is elected annually by our stockholders. The board of directors elects our executive officers annually. Our directors and executive officers are as follows:

 

Name (1) Position Age Term of Office

Bruce Weitzberg (2) Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer 59

July 2008 to present

 

Robert Linzalone (2)

 

Director and Executive Vice President 59

July 2008 to present

 

Joseph Gonzalez Director 46

July 2008 to present

 

 
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(1) The Company has no part-time employees.

(2) The Company has entered into employment agreements with both Messrs. Linzalone and Weitzberg. See “Compensation of Directors and Executive Officers” below.

 

Bruce Weitzberg has served as our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer from December 2006 through the present. Prior to that time, he was the Chief Operating Officer of the Medcard Division of Medcom USA, Inc., a healthcare transaction services company from February 1999 through December 2006. Mr. Weitzberg holds a Bachelor of Science from the New York Institute of Technology.

 

Robert Linzalone has served as a member of our board of directors and as our Executive Vice President from December 2006 through the present. Prior to that time, Mr. Linzalone was the Director of Operations of the Medcard Division of Medcom USA, Inc., a healthcare transaction services company from 2002 through November, 2007. Mr. Linzalone holds a Bachelor of Arts from Queens College.

 

Joseph Gonzalez has served as a member of our board of directors from December 2006 through the present. From January 1998 to November 2004, he was employed as the Vice President of Business Development for Secure EDI Health Group, LLC, a medical claims clearing firm. From 1992 to 1998, Mr. Gonzalez served at the United States Naval Academy. Mr. Gonzalez holds a Bachelor of Science from the United States Naval Academy.

 

Family Relationships

 

There are no family relationships among and between the issuer’s directors, officers, persons nominated or chosen by the issuer to become directors or officers, or beneficial owners of more than ten percent of any class of the issuer’s equity securities.

 

Legal Proceedings

 

No officer, director, or persons nominated for such positions, promoter, control person or significant employee has been involved in the last ten years in any of the following:

 

  · Any bankruptcy petition filed by or against any business of which such person was a general partner or executive officer either at the time of the bankruptcy or within two years prior to that time,
     
  · Any conviction in a criminal proceeding or being subject to a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses),
     
  · Being subject to any order, judgment, or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any court of competent jurisdiction, permanently or temporarily enjoining, barring, suspending or otherwise limiting his involvement in any type of business, securities or banking activities,
     
  · Being found by a court of competent jurisdiction (in a civil action), the Securities Exchange Commission or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to have violated a federal or state securities or commodities law, and the judgment has not been reversed, suspended, or vacated,
     
  · Having any government agency, administrative agency, or administrative court impose an administrative finding, order, decree, or sanction against them as a result of their involvement in any type of business, securities, or banking activity,
     
  · Being the subject of a pending administrative proceeding related to their involvement in any type of business, securities, or banking activity, or
     
  · Administrative proceedings related to their involvement in any type of business, securities, or banking activity.

 

 

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COMPENSATION OF DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

 

The table below summarizes all compensation awarded to, earned by, or paid to our sole executive officer for all services rendered in all capacities to us since the beginning of fiscal year 2016 until the date of the Offering Statement to which this Offering Circular relates. We do not have a compensation committee and compensation for our directors and officers is determined by our board of directors. We have not approved any stock option plan for the compensation of employees and contractors. We do not pay any compensation to the members of our board of directors.

 

Name and principal position Capacities in which compensation was received Fiscal Year Total Compensation
Bruce Weitzberg President and Chief Executive Officer 2017 $65,000
    2016 $50,000
Robert Linzalone Executive Vice President 2017 $0
    2016 $0

 

On May 1, 2014, the Company entered into an employment agreement with Bruce Weitzberg, with a term of five years, for an annual salary of $220,000 per year. The agreement also provides for a cash bonus of up to 25% of his annual base salary relating to his employment in 2008 and 2009, as well as the reimbursement of certain monthly expenses relating to Mr. Weitzberg’s automobile and cell phone usage. However, Mr. Weitzberg has agreed to defer all of his salary and benefits under the aforementioned employment agreement, except for the amounts listed above, until such time as the Company has reached $2,000,000 in annual net revenue.

 

On May 1, 2014, the Company entered into an employment agreement with Robert Linzalone, with a term of five years, for an annual salary of $220,000 per year. The agreement also provides for a cash bonus of up to 25% of his annual base salary relating to his employment in 2008 and 2009, as well as the reimbursement of certain monthly expenses relating to Mr. Linzalone’s automobile and cell phone usage. However, Mr. Linzalone has agreed to defer all of his salary and benefits due under the aforementioned employment agreement until such time as the Company has reached $2,000,000 in annual net revenue.

 

SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF MANAGEMENT AND CERTAIN SECURITYHOLDERS

 

The following tables set forth the ownership, as of August 8, 2018, based on an aggregate of 194,855,992 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding as of August 8, 2018 .  The information includes beneficial ownership by by (i) each executive officer and director; (ii) all of our executive officers and directors as a group; and (iii) each person or entity who, to our knowledge, owns more than 5% of our Common Stock.

 

Except as noted below, to our knowledge, each person named in the table has sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of our Common Stock beneficially owned by them.

 

The information presented below regarding beneficial ownership of our voting securities has been presented in accordance with the rules of the SEC and is not necessarily indicative of ownership for any other purpose. Under these rules, a person is deemed to be a “beneficial owner” of a security if that person has or shares the power to vote or direct the voting of the security or the power to dispose or direct the disposition of the security. A person is deemed to own beneficially any security as to which such person has the right to acquire sole or shared voting or investment power within 60 days through the conversion or exercise of any convertible security, warrant, option or other right. More than one person may be deemed to be a beneficial owner of the same securities.

 

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Unless stated otherwise, the business address for these stockholders is c/o Patient Access Solutions, Inc., 131 Sunnyside Boulevard, Suite 100, Plainview, New York 11803 .

 

Title of Class Number and address of beneficial owner Amount and nature of beneficial ownership Amount and nature of beneficial ownership acquirable Percent of Class
Common Stock Bruce Weitzberg 3,500,000 Direct 1.8%
Preferred Stock Bruce Weitzberg 5,000,000 Direct 50%
Common Stock Joseph Gonzalez 2,000,000 Direct Less than 1%
Common Stock Robert Linzalone 3,500,000 Direct

1.8% 

Preferred Stock Robert Linzalone 5,000,000 Direct 50%

All Officers and Directors as group hold 9,000,000 shares of Common Stock, totaling 4.6% of the Company’s outstanding Common Stock. However, Bruce Weitzberg and Robert Linzalone each hold 5,000,000 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, which are convertible into 100 shares of Common Stock for each share of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock held, and which totals 100% of the Company’s outstanding preferred stock, such that, on as-converted basis, Messrs. Weitzberg and Linzalone control more than 10% of the outstanding Common Stock of the Company.

 

 

INTEREST OF MANAGEMENT AND OTHERS IN CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS  

 

Except as described within the section entitled Executive Compensation of Directors and Officers this Offering Circular, the Company had the following transactions with “Related Persons,” as that term is defined in item 404 of Regulation SK, which includes, but is not limited to: 

 

  · any of our directors or officers;

 

  · any person who beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, shares carrying more than 10% of the voting rights attached to our outstanding shares of common stock; or

 

  · any member of the immediate family (including spouse, parents, children, siblings and in- laws) of any of the above persons.

 

SECURITIES BEING OFFERED

 

This Offering Circular relates to the sale of up to 350,000,000 shares of our Common Stock by the Company at a price of $0.001 per share, for total offering proceeds of up to $3,500,000 if all offered shares are sold. There is no minimum offering amount and no provision to escrow or return investor funds if any minimum number of shares is not sold. The minimum amount established for investors is $500, unless such minimum is waived by the Company, in its sole discretion. All funds raised by the Company from this Offering will be immediately available for the Company’s use.

 

We are authorized to issue a total of 760,000,000 shares, of which 750,000,000 shares are designated as Common Stock with a $0.001 par value per share, and 10,000,000 shares are designated as Preferred Stock, with a $0.001 par value per share. The rights and preferences of classes of our Preferred Stock may be determined by our board of directors. As of August 8, 2018, the Company had approximately 194,855,992 shares of Common Stock outstanding, and 10,000,000 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock outstanding.

 

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Common Stock

 

Each share of Common Stock entitles the holder to one vote, either in person or by proxy, at meetings of stockholders. The holders are not permitted to vote their shares cumulatively. Accordingly, the stockholders of our Common Stock who hold, in the aggregate, more than fifty percent of the total voting rights can elect all of our directors and, in such event, the holders of the remaining minority shares will not be able to elect any of such directors. The vote of the holders of a majority of the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock entitled to vote thereon is sufficient to authorize, affirm, ratify or consent to such act or action, except as otherwise provided by law. Stockholders may take action by written consent of over 50% of the issued and outstanding Common Stock of the Company.

 

Holders of Common Stock are entitled to receive ratably such dividends, if any, as may be declared by the board of directors out of funds legally available. From inception, the Company has never declared or paid any cash dividends to holders of its Common Stock, and has no intention to do so in the foreseeable future. Although it is the Company’s intention to utilize all available funds for the development of its business, no restrictions are in place that would limit its ability to pay dividends. The payment of any future cash dividends will be at the sole discretion of the Company’s board of directors.

 

Holders of our Common Stock have no pre-emptive rights or other subscription rights, conversion rights, redemption or sinking fund provisions . Upon our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, the holders of our Common Stock will be entitled to share ratably in the net assets legally available for distribution to stockholders after the payment of all of our debts and other liabilities. There are not any provisions in our Articles of Incorporation or our Bylaws that would prevent or delay change in our control.

 

Series A Convertible Preferred Stock

 

On December 31, 2009, we issued 5,000,000 shares of our Series A Convertible Preferred Stock to Bruce Weitzberg, our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. Also on December 31, 2009, we issued 5,000,000 shares of our Series A Convertible Preferred Stock to Robert Linzalone, a member of our board of directors and our Executive Vice President, both in exchange for services rendered.

 

Each share of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock is convertible at the option of the holder into 100 shares of Common Stock, and has equivalent voting rights of Common Stock on an as-converted basis. Therefore, regardless of the number of shares sold in this offering, Messrs. Weitzberg and Linzalone will maintain complete control of the Company. Upon liquidation each share of of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock is entitled to an amount equal to its stated par value per share plus any accrued and unpaid dividends thereon and any other fees or liquidated damanges owing thereon, which such amount will be paid before any distributions or payment shall be made to the holders of any securities junior in preference to the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock.

 

There is no restriction on the repurchase or redemption of preferred stock by the Company while there is any arrearage in the payment of dividends or sinking fund installments.

 

Market Price, Dividends, and Related Stockholder Matters

 

Our Common Stock is not traded on a national exchange, but is quoted on the OTC Markets Group, Inc.’s OTC Pink marketplace. There is only a limited market for our Common Stock.

 

The last sale price of the Company’s Common Stock on August 8 , 2018 was $ 0.0185 per share.

 

As of August 8, 2018, there were approximately 467 registered stockholders.

 

We do not have an equity incentive plan.

 

Although it is the Company’s intention to utilize all available funds for the development of its business, no restrictions are in place that would limit its ability to pay dividends. The payment of any future cash dividends will be at the sole discretion of the Company’s board of directors.

 

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DISCLOSURE OF COMMISSION POSITION ON INDEMNIFICATION FOR SECURITIES LIABILITIES

 

Our bylaws, subject to the provisions of Nevada law, contain provisions which allow the corporation to indemnify any person against liabilities and other expenses incurred as the result of defending or administering any pending or anticipated legal issue in connection with service to us if it is determined that person acted in good faith and in a manner which he reasonably believed was in the best interest of the corporation. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to our directors, officers and controlling persons, we have been advised that in the opinion of the SEC, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.

 

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

PATIENT ACCESS SOLUTIONS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY

INDEX TO UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

 

CONTENTS

 

 

 

 

Description P a g e( s)
   
 Consolidated Ba l a n c e S h ee t s F-2
For the six months ended April 30, 2018, and years ended October 31, 2017 and October 31, 2016  
   
St a t e m e n t s of Op era ti ons F-3
    For the six months ended April 30, 2018 and 2017 and for the  
Years ended October 31, 2017 and 2016  
   
St a t e m e n t s of Stockholders’ Deficiency F-5
    For the six months ended April 30, 2018 and years ended October 31, 2017 and 2016  
   
Consolidated St a t e m e n t s of C a sh F l ows F-6
    For the six months ended April 30, 2018 and 2017 and for the  
years ended October 31, 2017 and 2016  
   
No t e s t o Unaudited Consolidated F i n a n c i a l St a t e m e n t s F-8
   

 

F-1
 

 

Patient Access Solutions, Inc. and Subsidiary

Consolidated Balance Sheet

April 30, 2018, October 31, 2017 and October 31, 2016

(unaudited)

  April 30, 2018   October 31, 2017   October 31, 2016
Assets            
   Current Assets:                        
      Cash and cash equivalents   $ 500     $ 9695     $ 20,178  
Fees and loans receivable from health care providers     1,341,792       2,059,484       0  
      Escrow receivable pending satisfaction of New                        
         York State income tax withholding liability     —         144,000       0  
      Prepaid expenses and other current assets     43,011       79,071       0  
      Total Current Assets     1,385,303       2,292,250       20,178  
   Property, plant and equipment, net of accumulated                        
      depreciation of $45,537,$0,$0 respectively     601,749       397,000       0  
   Security deposit     46,493       46,493       0  
Total Assets   $ 2,033,545     $ 2,735,743     $ 20,178  
Liabilities and Stockholders' Deficiency                        
   Current Liabilities                        
      Current portion of debt   $ 1,808,756     $ 828,147     $ 1,045,687  
      Accounts payable     215,117       1,542,259       0  
      Delinquent payroll withholdings, payroll taxes,                        
         interest, and penalties     164,681       275,019       294,020  
      Accrued expenses and other current liabilities     17,914       2,529       0  
      Total Current Liabilities     2,006,468       2,647,954       1,339,707  
Convertible Notes payable     200,000                  
   Total Liabilities   $ 2,206,468     $ 2,647,954     $ 1,339,707  
Stockholders' deficiency:                        
   Preferred Stock, $.001 par value;                        
      authorized 10,000,000 shares:                        
         Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, issued                        
            and outstanding 10,000,000, 10,000,000, and                        
            10,000,000, shares, respectively     10,000       10,000       10,000  
   Common Stock, $.001 par value;                        
      authorized 750,000,000 shares, issued and                        
      outstanding 94,695,174, 47,972,607 and                        
      12,190,191 shares, respectively as of April 30, 2018, October 31, 2017 and October 31, 2016     94,695       47,973       12,190  
   Additional paid-in capital     19,171,768       12,942,283       10,405,320  
   Accumulated deficit     (19,449,386 )     (13,412,467 )     (11,747,039 )
   Total stockholders' deficiency     (172,923 )     (412,211 )     (1,319,529 )
Total liabilities and stockholders' deficiency   $ 2,033,545     $ 2,735,743     $ 20,178  

 

See notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

 

 

F-2
 

 

Patient Access Solutions, Inc. and Subsidiary

Consolidated Statements of Operations

Six Months Ended April 30, 2018 and 2017 and years ended Oct 31, 2017 and 2016

(unaudited)

 

    Six Months Ended April 30,   Year Ended October 31
    2018   2017   2017   2016
Operating revenues:                                
                                 
  Fees from health care providers   $ 877,342     $ —       $ 1,800,232     $ —    
  Equipment rentals (net)     12,025       20,449       20,565       38,804  
                                 
  Total revenues     889,367       20,449       20,565       38,804  
                                 
Operating expenses:                                
                                 
  Employee compensation and benefits     835,389       9,670       33,182       —    
  Consulting Fees     5,051,303       305,200       1,271,246       —    
  Professional fees     46,725       28,000       152,569       —    
  Occupancy     186,292       2,304       14,810       —    
  Advertising and marketing     255,692       261       66,231       —    
  Depreciation of property, plant and equipment     45,537       —         —         —    
  Other     332,473       56,045       90,546       18,630  
                                 
  Total operating expenses     6,753,411       401,480       1,628,584       18,630  
                                 
Income (loss) from operations     (5,864,044 )     (381,031 )     192,213       20,174  
                                 
Other income (expense):                                
  Gain on compromise of payroll tax liability     79,838       —         —         —    
                                 

 

See notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

 

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Patient Access Solutions, Inc. and Subsidiary

Consolidated Statements of Operations

Six Months Ended April 30, 2018 and 2017 and years ended Oct 31, 2017 and 2016

(unaudited) 

 

 

 
             
    Six Months Ended April 30,   Year Ended October 31
    2018   2017   2017   2016
Interest expense (including accretion of debt                
    discount of $189,713, $0, $31,619, and $0, respectively)     (252,713 )     (13,743 )     (57,409 )     (13,643 )
                                 
  Other income (expense) - net     (172,875 )     (13,743 )     (57,409 )     (13,643 )
                                 
Income (loss) before provision for income taxes     (6,036,919 )     (394,774 )     (1,665,428 )     6,531  
                                 
Provision for income taxes     —         —         —         —    
                                 
Net income (loss)   $ (6,036,919 )   $ (394,774 )   $ (1,665,428 )   $ 6,531  
                                 
Net income (loss) per common share - basic and diluted   $ (0.08 )   $ (0.03 )   $ (0.08 )   $ 0.00  
                                 
Weighted average common shares outstanding - basic and diluted     74,201,865       14,679,108       20,396,368       12,190,161  
                                 
                                 

 

See notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

 

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Patient Access Solutions, Inc. and Subsidiary
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Deficiency
Six Months Ended April 30, 2018 and years ended October 31, 2017 and 2016
(unaudited)

    Series A Preferred   Common Stock,   Additional       Total
    Stock, $0.001 Par   $0.001 Par   Paid-in   Accumulated   Stockholders'
    Shares   Par   Shares   Par   Capital   Deficit   Deficiency
                             
Balances, October 31, 2016     10,000,000     $ 10,000       12,190,191     $ 12,190     $ 10,405,320     $ (11,753,570 )   $ (1,326,060 )
                                                         
Net income for the year ended October 31, 2016     —         —         —         —         —         6,531       6,531  
                                                         
Balances, October 31, 2016     10,000,000       10,000       12,190,191       12,190       10,405,320       (11,747,039 )     (1,319,529 )
                                                         
                                                         
Sales of common stock     —         —         28,947,416       28,948       370,552       —         399,500  
                                                         
Issuance of common stock for services rendered     —         —         6,835,000       6,835       1,166,411       —         1,173,246  
                                                         
Net loss for the year ended October 31, 2017     —         —         —         —         —         (1,665,428 )     (1,665,428 )
                                                         
Balances, October 31, 2017     10,000,000       10,000       47,972,607       47,973       11,942,283       (13,412,467 )     (412,211 )
                                                         
Sales of common stock     —                 13,535,923       13,536       1,279,939       —         1,293,475  
                                                         
Issuance of common stock for services                                                        
    rendered     —                 32,761,644       32,761       4,900,493       —         4,933,254  
                                                         
Issuance of common stock in settlement of note                                                        
   payable  and accrued interest     —                 425,000       425       49,053       —         49,478  
                                                       
Net loss for the six months ended April 30, 2018     —                 —         —         —         (6,036,919 )     (6,036,919 )
                                                         
Balances, April 30, 2018 (Unaudited)     10,000,000     $ 10,000       94,695,174     $ 94,695       18,171,768     $ (19,449,386 )   $ (172,923 )
                                                         

 

See notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

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Patient Access Solutions, Inc. and Subsidiary
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
Six Months Ended April 30, 2018 and 2017 and years ended Oct 31, 2017 and 2016
(unaudited)
 
    Six Months Ended April 30,   Year Ended October 31
    2018   2017   2017   2016
Cash Flows from Operating Activities:                                
                                 
Net income (loss)   $ (6,036,919 )   $ (394,774 )   $ (1,665,428 )   $ 6,531  
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net                                
  cash used by operating activities:                                
  Stock-based compensation     4,933,254       213,200       1,173,246       —    
  Depreciation of property, plant, and equipment     45,537       —         —         —    
  Accretion of debt discount     189,713       —         31,619       —    
  Gain on compromise of payroll taxes liabilities     (79,838 )     —         —         —    
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:                                
  Fees and loans receivable from health care providers     (1,332,097 )     —         (9,695 )     —    
  Prepaid expenses and other current assets     36,060       (10,500 )     (79,071 )     —    
  Accounts payable     172,858       20,253       42,259       —    
  Delinquent payroll withholdings, payroll taxes,                                
      interest, and penalties     (8,000 )     (9,000 )     (19,000 )     —    
  Accrued expenses and other current liabilities     15,385       8,743       21,319       13,643  
                                 
Net cash provided by (used by) operating activities     (2,064,047 )     (172,078 )     (504,751 )     20,174  
      .                          
Cash Flows from Investing Activities:                                
  Additions to plant, property, and equipment     (250,286 )     (11,600 )     (397,000 )     —    
  Security deposit paid     —         —         (46,493 )     —    
Net cash used by investing activities     (250,286 )     (11,600 )     (443,493 )     —    
Cash Flows from Financing Activities:                                
  Proceeds from notes payable     961,874       25,000       603,050       —    
  Payments of notes payable     —         —         (15,000 )     —    
  Proceeds from sales of common stock     1,293,475       139,000       399,500       —    
                                 
Net cash provided by financing activities     2,255,349       164,000       987,550       —    
                                 
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents     (58,984 )     (19,678 )     39,306       20,174  
                                 
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period     59,484       20,178       20,178       4  
                                 
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period   $ 500     $ 500     $ 59,484     $ 20,178  
Supplemental Cash Flow Information:                                
                                 
  Interest paid   $ 32,500     $ —       $ 7,000     $ —    
                                 
  Income taxes paid   $ —       $ —       $ —       $ —    
                                 
Non-cash Investing and Financing Activities:                                
                                 
Issuance of Common Stock in settlement of note                                
  payable and accrued interest   $ 49,478     $ —       $ —       $ —    
                                 
Escrow account payment of payroll tax liability on                                
  December 19, 2017   $ 22,500     $ —       $ —       $ —    
Release of escrow account and reduction of                                
 note payable   $ 121,500     $ —       $ —       $ —    

 

See notes to Unaudited Consolidated financial statements.

 

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PATIENT ACCESS SOLUTIONS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY

NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

SIX MONTHS ENDED APRIL 30 2018 AND 2017 AND YEARS ENDED OCTOBER 31,

2017 AND 2016

(UNAUDITED)

 

1 . OR G A N I Z ATI O N A ND N A TU R E O F BUSIN ES S

 

Patient Access Solutions Inc. (“PASO”) was incorporated in the state of Nevada on March 17, 2006. Its wholly owned subsidiary PAS Health Management Companies NY, Inc. (“PASO Health”), incorporated in the state of New York on October 1, 2016, provides administrative, management, and facility services to health care providers at locations in Plainview New York and Center Moriches New York (see Note 11). PASO also rents equipment to other health care providers.

 

PASO and PASHealth Management Companies NY are collectively referred to as the “Company”.

 

The Unaudited Financial Statements as of April 30, 2018, and for the years of 2017 and 2016, have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. In the opinion of management, the unaudited financial statements reflect all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments, necessary to present fairly the financial data and other information disclosed in these notes. The results for these periods are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for future periods.

 

2. S U MM A R Y O F S I GNI F I C A N T A C COU N TING P O L ICIES

(a) Ba s is of P re s e n t a tion a n d G oi n g Conc er n

The fin a n c ial stat e ments a re p re p a r e d on a “g o i ng c o n ce r n ” b a si s , whi c h c ontemplat e s the r e a l iz a t i on of a ssets a n d l i a bi l i t ies in the no r mal c ourse of busin e ss; how e v e r, th e re is subs t a nt i a l doubt a s to t h e Compa n y s abili t y to c ont i nue a s a g oing c on c e r n.

 

As of April 30 , 2018, the Compa n y h a d n e g a t i ve wo r ki n g c a pi t a l of $621,165 a nd a sto c kholde r s’ d e fi c i e n c y of $172,923.

 

The Compa n y plans to i mprove i t s fin a n c ial c o n di t ion by obtaining additional financing and by generating positive cash flow from its future business operations . Ho w e v e r, t h e re is no a ss u r a n c e t h a t the Compa n y will be s u cce ssful in acc omp l ish i ng i t s obje c t i v e s. The fin a n c i a l stat e ments do not include a ny a djus t ments that m i g ht be n e ce ssa r y shou l d the Compa n y be u n a ble to continue a s a g oi n g c o n ce rn.

 

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(b) Principles of Consolidation

 

The Unaudited Consolidated financial statements include the accounts of PASO and its wholly owned subsidiary PASO Health (collectively, the “Company”). All inter-company balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

 

(c) U se of Esti m a t e s

 

The p re p a r a t i on of fi n a n c ial stat e ments in c onfo r m i t y with acc ount i n g p r inciples g e n e r a l l y ac c e pted in the United S tat e s r e qui r e s ma n a g e m e nt to make e st i mat e s a n d a ssu m pt i ons that a f f e c t the r e p o rt e d a mo u nts of a ssets a nd l i a bi l i t ies a nd di s c losure o f c o n t i n g e nt a ssets a n d l i a bi l i t ies a t the d a tes of the fin a n c ial stat e ments a nd the r e p o rt e d a mou n ts of r e v e nu e s a nd e x p e nses du r ing the r e p o rting p e riods. A c tual r e sul t s co u ld d i f fe r f rom tho s e e st i mat e s.

 

(d) Cash a n d Cash E qu i valents

 

The Compa n y c onsid e rs a ll l i quid investm e nts p u rc h a s e d with o r i g inal matu r i t ies of nine t y d a y s o r l e ss t o be c a sh e q uival e nts.

 

( e ) Fees and Loans Receivable from Health Care Providers

 

Fees receivable from health care providers are recorded at net realizable value. The Company periodically assesses the adequacy of valuation allowances for uncollectable receivables by evaluating the collectability of outstanding receivables and general factors such as historical collection experience, length of time individual receivables are past due, and the economic and competitive environment.

 

(f) Property, Plant and Equipment

 

Property, plant and equipment is stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Depreciation of furniture, fixtures, and equipment is provided using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the respective assets (ranging from five to seven years). Amortization of leasehold improvements is provided over the shorter of the remaining lease term or the assets’ useful lives.

 

( g ) R e v e nu e R e c og n ition

 

R e v e nue f r om fees from health care providers and equipment rentals are r ec o g ni z e d w h e n a ll of the followi n g c r i te r ia a re met: ( 1 ) p e rsu a sive e vide n c e of a n a r ra n g e ment e x is t s , ( 2) the p r ice is fi x e d or d e te r m i n a ble, ( 3 ) c ol l ec tabil i t y is r ea so n a b l y a ssu r e d, a nd (4) d e l ive r y h a s o cc u r r e d. The fees and rentals are derived from agreements with the health care providers and the equipment users.

 

( h) S to c k - Based C o m pen sation

 

S tock - b a s e d c ompen s a t i on is measured at the grant date f a ir v a lue and expensed over the requisite service period or when the related performance condition is met. Fair value of common stock grants is determined based on the market price of the Company’s common stock.

 

F-8
 

 

( i) I n c o m e Tax e s

 

I n c ome ta x e s a re a cc ou n ted for und e r the a s s e ts a nd l i a bi l i t y metho d . C u r re nt income ta x e s a re p rovid e d in a cc o r d a n c e with the la w s of the r e sp e c t i ve ta x ing a uthorities. D e f e r red income ta x e s a re p r o v ided for the e st i mat e d futu r e tax c onse q u e n c e s a t t ribut a ble to dif fe r e n ce s b e t w ee n the f inan c ial stat e ment c a r r y i ng a moun t s of e x is t ing a ssets a nd l i a bi l i t ies a nd their r e spe c t i ve tax b a s e s a nd op e r a t i n g loss a nd tax c r e dit ca r r y f o r w a rds. D e f e r r e d tax a ssets a nd l i a bi l i t ies a re me a sur e d using e n ac ted tax r a tes in e f f ec t for t h e y ea r in whi c h those tempo ra r y dif f e r e n c e s a r e e x p ec ted to be r e c ov e red or s e t t led. D e f e r r e d tax a ssets a re r e du c e d b y a v a luation a l l ow a n c e wh e n, in the opin i on of man a g e ment, it is not m o r e l i k e l y than not that some portion or a ll of the d e f e r r e d tax a ssets will be rea l iz e d.

 

(j ) N e t Inc o m e (Loss) p e r Sh a r e

 

B a sic n e t income (loss) p e r c om m on sha r e is c o mpu t e d on the b a sis of t he w e i g h t e d a v e ra g e number of c om m on sh a r e s outstanding duri n g the p e riod of the f ina n c ial s t a tem e nts.

 

Dilu t e d n e t i n c ome (lo s s) p e r c om m on s h a re is c ompu t e d on the b a sis of t h e w e i g ht e d a v e rage numb e r of c om m on sha re s a nd di l ut i ve s ec u r i t ies (su c h a s stock opt i ons, w a r ra nt s , a nd c onv e rtible s ec u rities) outs t a ndin g . Dilu t ive s ec u r i t ies h a vi n g a n a n t i - di l ut i ve e f f e c t on di l uted n e t income (los s ) p e r sha r e a r e e x c luded f r om the c a lcul a t i on.

 

(k) Recently Is s u e d A c c ounti n g P r onoun c e m ents

 

In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, requiring an entity to recognize the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers. ASU No. 2014-09 will replace most existing revenue recognition guidance in GAAP when it becomes effective and allows the use of either the retrospective or cumulative effect transition method. In August 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-14 that approved deferring the effective. date by one year so that ASU No. 2014-09 would become effective for the Company on November 1, 2018. The FASB also approved, in October2016, permitting the early adoption of ASU No. 2014-09, but not before the original effective date for the Company on November 1, 2018.

 

In December 2017, the FASB issued ASU No. 2017-20, Technical Corrections and Improvements to Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, in order to clarify the Codification and to correct any unintended application of the guidance. These items are not expected to have a significant effect on the current accounting standard. The amendments in this update affect the guidance in ASU No. 2014-09, which is not yet effective. ASU No. 2014-09 will be effective, reflecting the one-year deferral, for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018 (November 1, 2018 for the Company). Early adoption of the standard is permitted but not before the original effective date. Companies can transition to the standard either retrospectively or as a cumulative-effect adjustment as of the date of adoption. The Company is in the process of evaluating the impact that the adoption of ASU No. 2014-09 will have on its Unaudited Consolidated financial statements and selecting the method of transition to the new standard.

 

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In February 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-02, Leases, which increases transparency and comparability by recognizing a lessee’s rights and obligations resulting from leases by recording them on the balance sheet as lease assets and lease liabilities. The new guidance becomes effective for the Company on November 1, 2019 with early adoption permitted and will be applied using the modified retrospective method. The Company has not yet completed the evaluation of the effect that ASU No. 2017-02 will have on its Unaudited Consolidated financial statements.

 

C e rt a in other a c c ount i ng pro n o un ce ments h a ve b ee n is s u e d b y t h e F A S B a nd ot h e r st a nd a rd s e t t ing o r g a ni z a t i ons which a re not y e t e f f e c t i ve a nd h a v e not y e t b ee n a dopted b y the Compa n y . The i m p a c t o n the Compa n y ’s fin a n c i a l pos i t i on a nd r e sul t s of op e r a t i ons f r om a dopt i on of these stand ar ds is not e x p ec ted to be mat e ri a l.

 

3. FEES AND LOANS RECEIVABLE FROM HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS

 

Fees and loans receivable from health care providers consist of:

 

         
    April 30, 2018   2017   2016
Integrative Medical Health Care of Plainview                        
    PC d/b/a the CIIT Center of Plainview   $ 1,110,773     $ —       $ —    
                         
Imam Medical PC d/b/a The CIIT Center of                        
    Center Moriches (1)     431,019       —         —    
                         
Total     1,541,792       —         —    
                         
Allowance for bad debts     —         —         —    
                         
Net   $ 1,541,792     $ —       $ —    

 

(1) Imam Medical PC d/b/a The CIIT Center of Center Moriches went out of business on October 1, 2017, 2018. Therefore, it is likely the amounts will be repaid timely, or at all.

 

4. ESCROW RECEIVABLE PENDING SATISFACTION OF NEW YORK STATE INCOME TAX WITHHOLDING LIABILITY

 

In connection with the $700,000 Senior Secured Credit Facility Agreement with TCA Global Credit Master Fund, LP (“TCA”) effective September 15, 2017 (See Note 6), $144,000 was placed with an escrow agent to be released to the Company upon the Company’s settlement of its New York State payroll tax liabilities (see Note 7). On December 19, 2016, $22,500 was paid from escrow to New York State in connection with the Company’s offer in compromise. On October 6, 2017, New York State accepted the Company’s offer in compromise. Rather than releasing the remaining escrow account balance of $121,500 to the Company, the $121,500 was released to TCA and the Company’s note payable balance to TCA was reduced from $700,000 to $578,500.

 

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5. PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

  

Property, plant and equipment consists of:

 

        Year Ended October 31
    Six Month Ending April 30, 2018   2017   2016
Leasehold improvements   $ 350,764     $ 242,288     $ —    
                         
Machinery and equipment     596,240       111,013       —    
                         
Furniture and fixtures     100,282       43,669       —    
                         
Total     1,047,286       397,000       —    
                         
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization     (45,537 )     —         —    
                         
Net   $ 1,001,749     $ 397,000     $ —    

 

 

The above assets were placed in service in our Plainview New York office commencing January 2018 coincident with the opening of the CIIT Center of Plainview.

 

Depreciation and amortization expense relating to plant, property and equipment for the six months ended April 30, 2018 and 2017 was $45,537 and $0, respectively. Depreciation and amortization expense relating to plant, property and equipment for the six months ended April 30, 2017 and 2016 was $0 and $0, respectively.

 

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6. DEBT

 

Debt consists of :

        Year Ending October 31
    Six Month Ending April 30, 2018   2017   2016
Secured note payable to TCA Global Credit                        
Master Fund, LP (“TCA”) effective
September 15, 2017, interest at 12% per
                       
annum payable monthly, due September 15,
2018 (net of accumulated debt discounts of
$31,619, $221,331, and $0, respectively)
  $ 546,881     $ 478,669     $ —    
Convertible notes and loans payable to
investors , interest at 12% per annum, due
one year from dates of issuance, convertible
into common stock at a conversion price of
$0.10 per share
    61,875       100,000       —    
                         
                         
Loan payable to Stella Realty, interest at 36%
per annum, settled in full on December
27, 2017
    —         49,478       45,687  
                         
Convertible Promissory Note dated June 3,                        
  2008 payable to Dream Technologies LLC,                        
  interest at 12% per annum payable at                        
  maturity, due June 3, 2010 (see Note 9)     —         —         1,000,000  
                         
Total     608,756       628,147       1,045,687  
                         
Current portion of debt     (608,756 )     (628,147 )     (1,045,687 )
                         
Non-current portion of debt   $ —       $ —       $ —    

 

In connection with the issuance of the $700,000 secured note payable to TCA effective September 15, 2017, the Company also issued to TCA common stock as collateral which may be sold by TCA. If TCA does not realize proceeds equal to $200,000 from such sales of common stock by September 15, 2018, TCA has the right to require us to redeem the $200,000 cash less any cash proceeds received from such sales of common stock.

 

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Also in connection with the Senior Secured Credit Facility Agreement with TCA effective September 15, 2017, we are required to pay TCA an Additional Revenue Share equal to 10% of the aggregate gross Receipts of the Company for 24 months commencing on the date that the principal balance of the $700,000 loan is paid to $0 (the “Revenue Share Commencement Date”).

 

7. DELINQUENT PAYROLL WITHHOLDINGS, PAYROLL TAXES, INTEREST, AND PENALTIES DUE TO TAXING AUTHORITIES

 

Delinquent payroll withholdings, payroll taxes, interest, and penalties due to taxing authorities consist of:

 

        Year Ending October 31
    Six Month Ending April 30, 2018   2017   2016
Federal   $ 164,681     $ 172,681     $ 172,681  
New York State     —         102,338       121,339  
Total   $ 164,681     $ 275,019     $ 294,020  

 

On June 12, 2017, the Company submitted an Offer in Compromise to the Internal Revenue Service to settle the delinquent Federal payroll tax liabilities for $30,000 payable in 10 monthly installments of $3,000 each.

 

On October 6, 2017, New York State accepted the Company’s offer in compromise to settle the delinquent New York State payroll tax liabilities for $22,500. Accordingly, the Company recognized a $79,838 gain from this settlement in the three months ended April 30, 2018.

 

8. CAPITAL STOCK

 

Preferred Stock

 

On December 31, 2009, PASO issued a total of 10,000,000 shares of its Series A Preferred Stock to Bruce Weitzberg, then chief executive officer and a director of PASO (5,000,000 shares) and Robert Linzalone, then a director of PASO (5,000,000 shares) for services rendered. Each share of Series A Preferred Stock is convertible at the option of the holder into 100 shares of PASO common stock, has voting rights on an as converted basis, and upon liquidation is entitled to an amount equal to the Stated Value per share.

 

Common Stock

 

In the year ended October 31, 2017, PASO sold a total of 28,947,416 shares of its common stock to accredited investors at prices ranging from $0.001 to $0.08 per share for net proceeds of $399,500.

 

In the year ended October 31, 2017, PASO issued a total of 6,835,000 shares of its common stock to service providers for services rendered to the Company. The $1,173,246 total fair value of the common stock (based on the closing price of PASO common stock at the respective dates of issuance) has been reflected in the accompanying Unaudited Consolidated Statement of Operations for the year ended October 31, 2017 as consulting fees.

 

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In the six months ended April 30, 2018, PASO sold a total of 13,535,923 shares of its common stock to accredited investors at prices ranging from $0.0625 to $0.14 per share for net proceeds of $1,293,475.

 

In the six months ended April 30, 2018, PASO issued a total of 32,761,644 shares of its common stock to service providers for services rendered to the Company. The $4,933,254 total fair value of the common stock (based on the closing price of PASO common stock at the respective dates of issuance) has been reflected in the accompanying Unaudited Consolidated Statement of Operations for the six months ended April 30, 2018 as consulting fees.

 

9. COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANTS

 

A summary of warrants activity follows:

 

Warrants outstanding at April 30, 2017 -
   

Six month ended April 30, 2017:

 

 
    Issued 5,493,750
    Expired -
   
Warrants outstanding at April 30, 2018 5,443,750
   
Six months ended April 30, 2018:  
    Issued 11,525,354
    Expired                -
   
Warrants outstanding at April 30, 2018 17,019,104

 

Issued and outstanding warrants at April 30, 2018 consists of:

 

Period Issued   Number of Warrants   Exercise Price   Expiration Date
             
September 2017   5,000,000   $0.05   September 2020
October 2017       493,750   $0.08   October 2020
November 2017   3,037,500   $0.08   November 2020
December 2017   2,900,000   $0.08   December 2020
December 2017   800,000   $0.10   December 2020
December 2017   1,142,854   $0.10   December 2020
April 2018   3,645,000   $0.10   April 2021
             
Total   17,019,104        
             

 

 

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10. IN C OME T A X ES

 

No provisions for income taxes were recorded for the periods presented since the Company incurred net losses and taxable losses in those periods.

 

The provisions for (benefits from) income taxes differ from the amounts determined by applying the U.S. Federal income tax rate of 35% to pretax income (loss) as follows:

 

    Six months ended April 30,   Year end Oct 31,
    2018   2017   2017   2016
Expected income tax (benefit) at 35%   $ (2,112,922 )   $ (138,170 )   $ (582,900 )   $ 2,286  
                                 
Non-deductible stock-based compensation     1,726,639       74,620       410,636       —    
                                 
Increase (decrease) in deferred income tax assets valuation                                
    allowance     386,283       63,550       172,264       (2,286 )
                                 
                                 

 

Deferred income tax assets consist of:

        Year Ending October 31
    Six Month Ending April 30, 2018   2017   2016
             
Net operating loss carry forward   $ 4,621,646     $ 4,235,363     $ 4,063,100  
                         
Valuation allowance     (4,621,646 )     (4,235,363 )     (4,063,100 )
                         
Net   $ —       $ —       $ —    

 

Based on management's present assessment, the Company has not yet determined it to be more likely than not that a deferred income tax asset of $4,621,646 attributable to the future utilization of the $13,204,703 net operating loss carry forward as of April 30, 2018 will be realized. Accordingly, the Company has maintained a 100% allowance against the deferred income tax asset in the Unaudited Consolidated financial statements at April 30, 2018. The Company will continue to review this valuation allowance and make adjustments as appropriate. The net operating loss carryforward expires in years 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2036, and 2037 in the amounts of $50,044, $40,622, $7,705,377 $3,325,132, $27,323, $349,217, $107,343, $3,519, $279, $492,182, and $1,103,665, respectively.

 

Current tax laws limit the amount of loss available to be offset against future taxable income when a substantial change in ownership occurs. Therefore, the amount available to offset future taxable income may be limited.

 

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11. CO MM I T M ENTS A N D C ONTIN G EN C I E S

 

Lease Agreement

 

On August 24, 2016, the Company executed an Agreement of Lease with 131 Sunnyside LLC for approximately 12,500 square feet of office space in Plainview New York. The term of the lease is 10 years and 3 months commencing January 1, 2017 and ending March 31, 2027. The monthly rent ranges from $22,917 per month in year 1 to $30,798 per month in year 11.

 

Rent expense for the six months ended April 30, 2018 and 2017 was $186,292 and $2,304, respectively. Rent expense for the six months ended April 30, 2017 and 2016 was $9,544 and $0, respectively.

 

As of April 30, 2018, the future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases were:

 

Year Ending October 31,   Amount
2017 $    68,750
2018     281,875
2019  290,331
2020   299,041
2021 308,012
2022 317,253
Thereafter 1,519,282
   
Total $ 3,084,544

 

Administrative and Management Services Agreements

 

On January 1, 2017, PASO Health executed Administrative and Management Services Agreements with Integrative Medical Health Care of Plainview PC d/b/a The CIIT Center of Plainview (“Plainview PC”) and Imam Medical PC d/b/a The CIIT Center of Center Moriches (“Center Moriches PC”). Both agreements provide for the performance of certain specified management and facilities services by PASO Health and have initial terms of five years automatically renewable for successive one year terms unless either party notifies the other no less than 120 days prior to the expiration of the term then in effect that the agreement will not be so renewed. The agreement with Plainview PC provides for minimum compensation to PAS Health of $60,000 per month ($35,000 management fees and $25,000 facilities fees). The agreement with Center Moriches PC provides for minimum compensation to PAS Health of $41,000 per month ($35,000 management fees and $6,000 facilities fees). However, Center Moriches PC closed its doors on October 1, 2017, 2018, and it is no longer in business or paying fees under its agreement with the Company.

 

 

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EXHIBITS

 

The following exhibits are filed with this Offering Circular:

 

Exhibit No.   Description
2.1   Articles of Incorporation, as amended
2.2   Bylaws of Patient Access Solutions Inc.
6.1   Administrative and Management Services Agreement with Integrative Medical Health Care of Plainview, PC  d/b/a The CIIT Center of Plainview, PC dated January 1, 2017  
6.2   Employment Agreement, by and between Patient Access Solutions, Inc. and Robert Linzalone, dated May 1, 2014
6.3   Employment Agreement, by and between Patient Access Solutions, Inc. and Bruce Weitzberg, dated May 1, 2014
6.4   Office Lease, by and between PAS Health Management Companies of NY, Inc. and Patient Access Solutions Inc., dated August 24, 2016
12.1   Consent of Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP*
     
     

*        To be filed by amendment.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of Regulation A, the issuer certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form 1-A and has duly caused this Offering Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Plainview, New York, on August 9, 2018.

 

  Patient Access Solutions Inc.
     
 August 9, 2018 By: /s/ Bruce Weitzberg
    Bruce Weitzberg
   

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

Principal Financial Officer, and

Principal Accounting Officer

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Offering Circular has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.

 

Signature   Title   Date
         
/s/ Bruce Weitzberg   Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer,   August 9, 2018
Bruce Weitzberg  

Principal Financial Officer, and

Principal Accounting Officer

   
         
/s/ Robert Linzalone   Director, Executive Vice President   August 9, 2018
Robert Linzalone        
         
/s/ Joseph Gonzalez   Director   August 9, 2018
Joseph Gonzalez        
         
         
         

 

 

 

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Exhibit 2.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 2.2

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS

OF

PATIENT ACCESS SOLUTIONS, INC.

a Nevada corporation

 

ARTICLE I

CORPORATE OFFICES

 

1.1 REGISTERED OFFICE. The registered agent and office of Patient Access Solutions, Inc. in the State of Nevada shall be as designated in the corporation’s articles of incorporation, as amended from time to time (the “ Articles of Incorporation ”).

 

1.2 OTHER OFFICES. The board of directors may at any time establish other offices at any place or places where the corporation is qualified to do business.

 

ARTICLE II

MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

 

2.1 PLACE OF MEETINGS. Meetings of stockholders shall be held at any place, either within or without the State of Nevada, as may be designated by the board of directors or in the manner provided in these bylaws. In the absence of any such designation, stockholders’ meetings shall be held at the registered office of the corporation in the State of Nevada.

 

2.2 ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of stockholders shall be held each year on a date and at a time designated by the board of directors. At the meeting, directors shall be elected and any other business properly brought before the annual meeting may be transacted. Except as otherwise restricted by the Articles of Incorporation or applicable law, the board of directors may postpone, reschedule or cancel any annual meeting of stockholders previously scheduled by the board of directors.

 

2.3 SPECIAL MEETING. A special meeting of the stockholders may be called at any time by the board of directors, or by the chairman of the board, or by the chief executive officer, or by the president.

 

If a special meeting is called by any person or persons other than the board of directors, the request shall be in writing, specifying the time of such meeting and the general nature of the business proposed to be transacted, and shall be delivered personally or sent by registered mail or by telegraphic or other facsimile transmission to the chairman of the board, the president or the secretary of the corporation. No business may be transacted at such special meeting otherwise than specified in such notice. The officer receiving the request shall cause notice to be promptly given to the stockholders entitled to vote, in accordance with the provisions of Sections 2.4 and 2.5 of this Article II, that a meeting will be held at the time requested by the person or persons calling the meeting, not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) calendar days after the receipt of the request. Nothing contained in this paragraph of this Section 2.3 shall be construed as limiting, fixing, or affecting the time when a meeting of stockholders called by action of the board of directors may be held.

 

2.4 NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETINGS. All notices of meetings with stockholders shall be in writing and shall be sent or otherwise given in accordance with Section 2.6 of these bylaws not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) calendar days before the date of the meeting to each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting. The notice shall specify the place, date, and hour of the meeting, and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called. 

 

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2.5 ADVANCE NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDER NOMINEES AND STOCKHOLDER BUSINESS. Nominations for the election of directors, and business proposed to be brought before any stockholder meeting may be made by the board of directors or proxy committee appointed by the board of directors or by any stockholder entitled to vote in the election of directors generally if such nomination or business proposed is otherwise business properly brought before such meeting. For nominations or other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder and for nominations to be properly brought before a special meeting by a stockholder, the stockholder of record must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the secretary of the corporation, and, in the case of business other than nominations, such other business must be a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the secretary at the principal executive offices of the corporation not later than the close of business on the ninetieth (90 th ) calendar day nor earlier than the close of business on the one hundred twentieth (120 th ) calendar day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting;  provided   that  in the event that the date of the annual meeting is more than thirty (30) calendar days before or more than seventy (70) calendar days after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the one hundred twentieth (120 th ) calendar day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90 th ) calendar day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth (10 th ) calendar day following the day on which public announcement (as defined below) of the date of such meeting is first made by the corporation. In no event shall the public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described above. The notice must be provided by a stockholder of record and must set forth:

 

(a) as to each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or re-election as a director, all information relating to such person that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act ”), including such person’s written consent to being named in the corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected,

 

(b) as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the bylaws, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any substantial interest (within the meaning of Item 5 of Schedule 14A under the Exchange Act) in such business of such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made,

 

(c) as to the stockholder giving the notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made or the business is proposed: (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the corporation’s books, and the name and address of such beneficial owner, (ii) the class and number of shares of stock of the corporation which are owned of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner as of the date of the notice, and a representation that the stockholder will notify the corporation in writing within five (5) business days after the record date for such meeting of the class and number of shares of stock of the corporation owned of record by the stockholder and such beneficial owner as of the record date for the meeting, and (iii) a representation that the stockholder intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to propose such nomination or business,

 

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(d) as to the stockholder giving the notice or, if the notice is given on behalf of a beneficial owner on whose behalf the nomination is made or the business is proposed, as to such beneficial owner, and if such stockholder or beneficial owner is an entity, as to each director, executive, managing member or control person of such entity (any such person, a “ control person ”): (i) the class and number of shares of stock of the corporation which are beneficially owned (as defined below) by such stockholder or beneficial owner and by any control person as of the date of the notice, and a representation that the stockholder will notify the corporation in writing within five (5) business days after the record date for such meeting of the class and number of shares of stock of the corporation beneficially owned by such stockholder or beneficial owner and by any control person as of the record date for the meeting, (ii) a description of any agreement, arrangement or understanding with respect to the nomination or other business between or among such stockholder or beneficial owner or control person and any other person, including without limitation any agreements that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 5 or Item 6 of Exchange Act Schedule 13D (regardless of whether the requirement to file a Schedule 13D is applicable to the stockholder, beneficial owner or control person) and a representation that the stockholder will notify the corporation in writing within five (5) business days after the record date for such meeting of any such agreement, arrangement or understanding in effect as of the record date for the meeting, (iii) a description of any agreement, arrangement or understanding (including any derivative or short positions, profit interests, options, hedging transactions, and borrowed or loaned shares) that has been entered into as of the date of the stockholder’s notice by, or on behalf of, such stockholder or beneficial owner and by any control person or any other person acting in concert with any of the foregoing, the effect or intent of which is to mitigate loss, manage risk or benefit from changes in the share price of any class of the corporation’s stock, or maintain, increase or decrease the voting power of the stockholder or beneficial owner with respect to shares of stock of the corporation, and a representation that the stockholder will notify the corporation in writing within five business days after the record date for such meeting of any such agreement, arrangement or understanding in effect as of the record date for the meeting, (iv) a representation whether the stockholder or the beneficial owner, if any, and any control person will engage in a solicitation with respect to the nomination or business and, if so, the name of each participant (as defined in Item 4 of Schedule 14A under the Exchange Act) in such solicitation and whether such person intends or is part of a group which intends to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the corporation’s outstanding stock required to approve or adopt the business to be proposed (in person or by proxy) by the stockholder, and 

 

(e) a certification that the stockholder giving the notice and the beneficial owner(s), if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made or the business is proposed, has or have complied with all applicable federal, state and other legal requirements in connection with such stockholder’s and/or each such beneficial owner’s acquisition of shares of capital stock or other securities of the corporation and/or such stockholder’s and/or each such beneficial owner’s acts or omissions as a stockholder of the corporation, including, without limitation, in connection with such nomination or proposal.

 

The corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the corporation, including information relevant to a determination whether such proposed nominee can be considered an independent director.

 

For purposes of this Section 2.5, a “ public announcement ” shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by the Dow Jones News Service, Associated Press or a comparable national news service or in a document publicly filed by the corporation with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Sections 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. For purposes of Section 2.5(d)(i), shares shall be treated as “beneficially owned” by a person if the person beneficially owns such shares, directly or indirectly, for purposes of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and Regulations 13D and 13G thereunder or has or shares pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding (whether or not in writing): (a) the right to acquire such shares (whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time or the fulfillment of a condition or both), (b) the right to vote such shares, alone or in concert with others, and/or (c) investment power with respect to such shares, including the power to dispose of, or to direct the disposition of, such shares.

 

This Section 2.5 shall not apply to notice of a proposal to be made by a stockholder if the stockholder has notified the corporation of his or her intention to present the proposal at an annual or special meeting only pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act and such proposal has been included in a proxy statement that has been prepared by the corporation to solicit proxies for such meeting.

 

The chairman of the meeting shall refuse to acknowledge the nomination of any person or the proposal of any business not made in compliance with the foregoing procedure. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions hereof, a stockholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act, and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth herein.

 

2.6 MANNER OF GIVING NOTICE; AFFIDAVIT OF NOTICE. Written notice of any meeting of stockholders, if mailed, is given when deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid, directed to the stockholder at his, her or its address as it appears on the records of the corporation. An affidavit of the secretary or an assistant secretary or of the transfer agent of the corporation that the notice has been given shall, in the absence of fraud, be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.

 

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2.7 QUORUM. The holders of a majority of the stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at all meetings of the stockholders for the transaction of business except as otherwise provided by statute or by the Articles of Incorporation. If, however, such quorum is not present or represented at any meeting of the stockholders, then either (a) the chairman of the meeting, or (b) the stockholders entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall have power to adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is present or represented. At such adjourned meeting at which a quorum is present or represented, any business may be transacted that might have been transacted at the meeting as originally noticed.

 

2.8 ADJOURNED MEETING; NOTICE. When a meeting is adjourned to another time or place, unless these bylaws otherwise require, notice need not be given of the adjourned meeting if the time and place thereof are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken. At the adjourned meeting, the corporation may transact any business that might have been transacted at the original meeting. If the adjournment is for more than thirty (30) calendar days, or if after the adjournment a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting.

 

2.9 CONDUCT OF BUSINESS. Except as otherwise provided in the Articles of Incorporation: (a) no action shall be taken by the stockholders except at an annual or special meeting of stockholders called and noticed in the manner required by these bylaws, and (b) the stockholders may not in any circumstance take action by written consent. The chairman of any meeting of stockholders shall determine the order of business and the procedure at the meeting, including such regulation of the manner of voting and the conduct of business.

 

2.10 VOTING. The stockholders entitled to vote at any meeting of stockholders shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.12 of these bylaws, subject to the provisions of the Nevada Revised Statutes (relating to voting rights of fiduciaries, pledgors and joint owners of stock and to voting trusts and other voting agreements).

 

Except as may be otherwise provided in the Articles of Incorporation, each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of capital stock held by such stockholder at the close of business on the record date, or the relevant date established by the board of directors, as applicable, which shall be cast only by that individual or such individual’s duly authorized proxy. Stockholders shall not be allowed to cumulate their votes in the election of directors or any other matter submitted to a vote of stockholders.

 

With respect to shares held by a representative of the estate of a deceased stockholder, or a guardian, conservator, custodian or trustee, even though the shares do not stand in the name of such holder, votes may be cast by such holder upon proof of such representative capacity. In the case of shares under the control of a receiver , the receiver may vote such shares even though the shares do not stand of record in the name of the receiver but only if and to the extent that the order of a court of competent jurisdiction which appoints the receiver contains the authority to vote such shares. If shares stand of record in the name of a minor, votes may be cast by the duly appointed guardian of the estate of such minor only if such guardian has provided the corporation with written proof of such appointment.

 

With respect to shares standing of record in the name of another corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other legal entity on the record date, votes may be cast: (a) in the case of a corporation, by such individual as the bylaws of such other corporation prescribe, by such individual as may be appointed by resolution of the board of directors of such other corporation or by such individual (including, without limitation, the officer making the authorization) authorized in writing to do so by the chairman of the corporation’s board of directors, if any, the chief executive officer, if any, the president or any vice president of such corporation, and (b) in the case of a partnership, limited liability company or other legal entity, by an individual representing such stockholder upon presentation to the corporation of satisfactory evidence of his or her authority to do so.

 

With respect to shares standing of record in the name of two or more persons, whether fiduciaries, members of a partnership, joint tenants, tenants in common, spouses as community property, tenants by the entirety, voting trustees or otherwise and shares held by two or more persons (including proxy holders) having the same fiduciary relationship in respect to the same shares, votes may be cast in the following manner: (a) if only one person votes, the vote of such person binds all, (b) if more than one person casts votes, the act of the majority so voting binds all, and (c) if more than one person casts votes, but the vote is evenly split on a particular matter, the votes shall be deemed cast proportionately, as split. 

 

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2.11 WAIVER OF NOTICE. Whenever notice is required to be given under any provision of the Nevada Revised Statutes, the Articles of Incorporation or these bylaws, a written waiver, signed by the person entitled to notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Attendance of a person at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the person attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the stockholders, directors, or members of a committee of directors need be specified in any written waiver of notice unless so required by the Articles of Incorporation or these bylaws.

  

2.12 RECORD DATE FOR STOCKHOLDER NOTICE; VOTING; GIVING CONSENTS. In order that the corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, or entitled to express consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the board of directors may fix, in advance, a record date, which shall not be more than sixty (60) nor less than ten (10) calendar days before the date of such meeting, nor more than sixty (60) calendar days prior to any other action.

 

If the board of directors does not so fix a record date, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held. The record date for determining stockholders for any other purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the board of directors adopts the resolution relating thereto.

 

A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the board of directors may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.

 

2.13 PROXIES. At any meeting of stockholders, any holder of shares entitled to vote may designate, in a manner permitted by the laws of the State of Nevada, another person or persons to act as a proxy or proxies. If a stockholder designates two or more persons to act as proxies, then a majority of those persons present at a meeting has and may exercise all of the powers conferred by the stockholder or, if only one is present, then that one has and may exercise all of the powers conferred by the stockholder, unless the stockholder’s designation of proxy provides otherwise. Every proxy shall continue in full force and effect until its expiration or revocation in a manner permitted by the laws of the State of Nevada.

 

2.14 LIST OF STOCKHOLDERS ENTITLED TO VOTE. The officer who has charge of the stock ledger of a corporation shall prepare and make, at least ten (10) calendar days before every meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of each stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours, for a period of at least ten (10) calendar days prior to the meeting, either at a place within the city where the meeting is to be held, which place shall be specified in the notice of the meeting, or, if not so specified, at the place where the meeting is to be held. The list shall also be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected by any stockholder who is present. Such list shall presumptively determine the identity of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting and the number of shares held by each of them.

 

ARTICLE III

DIRECTORS

 

3.1 POWERS. Subject to the provisions of the Nevada Revised Statutes and any limitations in the Articles of Incorporation or these bylaws relating to action required to be approved by the stockholders or by the outstanding shares, the business and affairs of the corporation shall be managed and all corporate powers shall be exercised by or under the direction of the board of directors.

 

3.2 NUMBER OF DIRECTORS. The board of directors shall consist of at least three (3) and not more than five (5) directors, provided that the minimum and maximum number of directors may be increased or decreased from time to time by an amendment to these bylaws or by resolutions adopted by the board of directors. No reduction of the authorized number of directors shall have the effect of removing any director before that director’s term of office expires. 

 

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3.3 ELECTION, QUALIFICATION AND TERM OF OFFICE OF DIRECTORS. Except as provided in the Articles of Incorporation or Section 3.4 of these bylaws, directors shall be elected at each annual meeting of stockholders to hold office until the next annual meeting. Directors need not be stockholders unless so required by the Articles of Incorporation or these bylaws, wherein other qualifications for directors may be prescribed. Each director, including a director elected to fill a vacancy, shall hold office until his successor is elected and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation or removal.

 

Elections of directors need not be by written ballot.

 

3.4 RESIGNATION AND VACANCIES. Any director may resign at any time upon written notice to the attention of the secretary of the corporation. When one or more directors shall resign from the board of directors, effective at a future date, a majority of the directors then in office, including those who have so resigned, shall have power to fill such vacancy or vacancies, the vote thereon to take effect when such resignation or resignations shall become effective, and each director so chosen shall hold office as provided in this section in the filling of other vacancies.

 

Unless otherwise provided in the articles of incorporation or these bylaws:

 

(a) Vacancies and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors elected by all of the stockholders having the right to vote as a single class may be filled by a majority of the directors then in office, although less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director.

 

(b) Whenever the holders of any class or classes of stock or series thereof are entitled to elect one or more directors by the Articles of Incorporation, vacancies and newly created directorships of such class or classes or series may be filled by a majority of the directors elected by such class or classes or series thereof then in office, or by a sole remaining director so elected.

 

If at any time, by reason of death or resignation or other cause, the corporation should have no directors in office, then any officer or any stockholder or an executor, administrator, trustee or guardian of a stockholder, or other fiduciary entrusted with like responsibility for the person or estate of a stockholder, may call a special meeting of stockholders in accordance with the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation or these bylaws, or may apply for a decree summarily ordering an election as provided in the Nevada Revised Statutes.

 

If, at the time of filling any vacancy or any newly created directorship, the directors then in office constitute less than a majority of the whole board (as constituted immediately prior to any such increase), then a court of competent jurisdiction may, upon application of any stockholder or stockholders holding at least thirty-three percent (33%) of the total number of the shares at the time outstanding having the right to vote for such directors, summarily order an election to be held to fill any such vacancies or newly created directorships, which election shall be governed by the provisions of the Nevada Revised Statutes as far as applicable.

 

3.5 PLACE OF MEETINGS; MEETINGS BY TELEPHONE. The board of directors of the corporation may hold meetings, both regular and special, either within or outside the State of Nevada.

 

Unless otherwise restricted by the Articles of Incorporation or these bylaws, members of the board of directors, or any committee designated by the board of directors, may participate in a meeting of such board of directors, or committee by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and such participation in a meeting pursuant to this section shall constitute presence in person at the meeting.

 

3.6 REGULAR MEETINGS. Regular meetings of the board of directors may be held without notice at such time and at such place as shall from time to time be determined by the board of directors.

  

3.7 SPECIAL MEETINGS; NOTICE. Special meetings of the board of directors for any purpose or purposes may be called at any time by the chairman of the board, the president, any vice president, the secretary or any two (2) directors.  

 

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Notice of the time and place of special meetings shall be delivered personally, by email, by first-class mail or telegram, charges prepaid, addressed to each director at that director’s address as it is shown on the records of the corporation. If the notice is mailed, it shall be deposited in the United States mail at least four (4) calendar days before the time of the holding of the meeting. If the notice is delivered personally, by email or by telegram, it shall be delivered at least forty-eight (48) hours before the time of the holding of the meeting. The notice need not specify the purpose or the place of the meeting, if the meeting is to be held at the principal executive office of the corporation.

 

3.8 QUORUM. At all meetings of the board of directors, a majority of the authorized number of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the act of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which there is a quorum shall be the act of the board of directors, except as may be otherwise specifically provided by statute, the Articles of Incorporation, or these bylaws. If a quorum is not present at any meeting of the board of directors, then the directors present thereat may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is present.

 

A meeting at which a quorum is initially present may continue to transact business notwithstanding the withdrawal of directors, if any action taken is approved by at least a majority of the required quorum for that meeting.

 

3.9 WAIVER OF NOTICE. Whenever notice is required to be given under any provision of the Nevada Revised Statutes, the Articles of Incorporation, or these bylaws, a written waiver thereof, signed by the person entitled to notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Attendance of a person at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when such person attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the directors, or members of a committee of directors, need be specified in any written waiver of notice unless so required by the Articles of Incorporation or these bylaws.

 

3.10 BOARD ACTION BY WRITTEN CONSENT WITHOUT A MEETING. Unless otherwise restricted by the Articles of Incorporation or these bylaws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the board of directors, or of any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if all members of the board or committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing and the writing or writings are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the board or committee.

 

3.11 FEES AND COMPENSATION OF DIRECTORS. Unless otherwise restricted by the Articles of Incorporation or these bylaws, the board of directors (or a committee of the board of directors) shall have the authority to fix the compensation of directors.

 

3.12 APPROVAL OF LOANS TO OFFICERS. The corporation may lend money to, or guarantee any obligation of, or otherwise assist any officer or other employee of the corporation or of its subsidiary, including any officer or employee who is a director of the corporation or its subsidiary, whenever, in the judgment of the directors, such loan, guaranty or assistance may reasonably be expected to benefit the corporation. The loan, guaranty or other assistance may be with or without interest and may be unsecured, or secured in such manner as the board of directors shall approve, including, without limitation, a pledge of shares of stock of the corporation. Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to deny, limit or restrict the powers of guaranty or warranty of the corporation at common law or under any statute.

 

3.13 REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS. Any director may be removed from such position as provided in, and in accordance with, the Articles of Incorporation and the Nevada Revised Statutes.  No reduction of the authorized number of directors shall have the effect of removing any director prior to the expiration of such director’s term of office. 

 

ARTICLE IV

COMMITTEES

 

4.1 COMMITTEES OF DIRECTORS. The board of directors may, by resolution passed by a majority of the whole board, designate one or more committees, with each committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the corporation. The board may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee. In the absence or disqualification of a member of a committee, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not such member or members constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the board of directors to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the board of directors, or in the bylaws of the corporation, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the board of directors in the management of the business and affairs of the corporation, and may authorize the seal of the corporation to be affixed to all papers that may require it; but no such committee shall have the power or authority (a) approving or adopting or recommending to the stockholders, any action or matter expressly required by the Nevada Revised Statutes to be submitted to stockholders for approval, or (b) adopting, amending, or repealing any bylaws of the corporation; and, unless the board resolution establishing the committee, the bylaws or the certificate of incorporation expressly so provide, no such committee shall have the power or authority to declare a dividend, to authorize the issuance of stock, or to adopt a certificate of ownership and merger pursuant to the Nevada Revised Statutes.

 

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4.2 COMMITTEE MINUTES. Each committee shall keep regular minutes of its meetings and report the same to the board of directors when required.

 

4.3 MEETINGS AND ACTION OF COMMITTEES. Meetings and actions of committees shall be governed by, and held and taken in accordance with, the provisions of Section 3.5 through Section 3.10 of Article III of these bylaws, with such changes in the context of those bylaws as are necessary to substitute the committee and its members for the board of directors and its members; provided, however, that the time of regular meetings of committees may be determined either by resolution of the board of directors or by resolution of the committee, that special meetings of committees may also be called by resolution of the board of directors and that notice of special meetings of committees shall also be given to all alternate members, who shall have the right to attend all meetings of the committee. The board of directors may adopt rules for the government of any committee not inconsistent with the provisions of these bylaws.

 

ARTICLE V

OFFICERS

 

5.1 OFFICERS. The officers of the corporation shall be a chief executive officer, chief financial officer, president, treasurer and secretary. The corporation may also have, at the discretion of the board of directors, a chairman of the board, one or more vice presidents, one or more assistant vice presidents, one or more assistant secretaries, one or more assistant treasurers, and any such other officers as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.3 of these bylaws. Any number of offices may be held by the same person.

 

5.2 APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS. The officers of the corporation, except such officers as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Sections 5.3 or 5.5 of these bylaws, shall be appointed by the board of directors, subject to the rights, if any, of an officer under any contract of employment.

 

5.3 SUBORDINATE OFFICERS. The board of directors may appoint, or empower the president to appoint, such other officers and agents as the business of the corporation may require, each of whom shall hold office for such period, have such authority, and perform such duties as are provided in these bylaws or as the board of directors may from time to time determine.

 

5.4 REMOVAL AND RESIGNATION OF OFFICERS; FILLING VACANCIES. Subject to the rights, if any, of an officer under any contract of employment, any officer may be removed, either with or without cause, by an affirmative vote of the majority of the board of directors at any regular or special meeting of the board or, except in the case of an officer chosen by the board of directors, by any officer upon whom such power of removal may be conferred by the board of directors.

 

Any officer may resign at any time by giving written notice to the corporation. Any resignation shall take effect at the date of the receipt of that notice or at any later time specified in that notice; and, unless otherwise specified in that notice, the acceptance of the resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective. Any resignation is without prejudice to the rights, if any, of the corporation under any contract to which the officer is a party. 

 

Any vacancy occurring in any office of the corporation shall be filled by the board of directors.

 

5.5 CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD. The chairman of the board, if such an officer be appointed, shall, if present, preside at meetings of the board of directors and exercise and perform such other powers and duties as may from time to time be assigned to the chairman of the board by the board of directors or as may be prescribed by these bylaws. If there is no president appointed, then the chairman of the board shall also be the president of the corporation and shall have the powers and duties prescribed in Section 5.8 of these bylaws.

 

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5.6 CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER. The board of directors shall appoint a chief executive officer of the corporation who shall be subject to the control of the board of directors and have general supervision, direction and control of the business and the officers of the corporation. The chief executive officer shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders and, in the absence or nonexistence of a chairman of the board, at all meetings of the board of directors.

 

The chief executive officer shall be the Principal Executive Officer of the corporation.

 

5.7 CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER. The chief financial officer shall keep and maintain, or cause to be kept and maintained, adequate and correct books and records of accounts of the properties and business transactions of the corporation, including accounts of its assets, liabilities, receipts, disbursements, gains, losses, capital retained earnings, and shares. The books of account shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by any director.

 

The chief financial officer shall deposit all moneys and other valuables in the name and to the credit of the corporation with such depositories as may be designated by the board of directors. The chief financial officer shall disburse the funds of the corporation as may be ordered by the board of directors, shall render to the president and directors, whenever they request it, an account of all his transactions as chief financial officer and of the financial condition of the corporation, and shall have other powers and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the board of directors or these bylaws.

 

The chief financial officer shall be the Principal Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer of the corporation, and subject to the order of the board of directors, the secretary and treasurer of the corporation.

 

5.8 PRESIDENT. The president shall have the general powers and duties of management usually vested in the office of president of a corporation and shall have such other powers and duties as may be prescribed by the board of directors or these bylaws. In addition and subject to such supervisory powers, if any, as may be given by the board of directors to the chairman of the board, if no one has been appointed chief executive officer, the president shall be the chief executive officer of the corporation and shall, subject to the control of the board of directors, have the powers and duties described in Section 5.6.

 

5.9 SECRETARY. The secretary shall keep or cause to be kept, at the principal executive office of the corporation or such other place as the board of directors may direct, a book of minutes of all meetings and actions of directors, committees of directors, and stockholders. The minutes shall show the time and place of each meeting, whether regular or special (and, if special, how authorized and the notice given), the names of those present at directors’ meetings or committee meetings, the number of shares present or represented at stockholders’ meetings, and the proceedings thereof.

 

The secretary shall keep, or cause to be kept, at the principal executive office of the corporation or at the office of the corporation’s transfer agent or registrar, as determined by resolution of the board of directors, a share register, or a duplicate share register, showing the names of all stockholders and their addresses, the number and classes of shares held by each, the number and date of certificates evidencing such shares, and the number and date of cancellation of every certificate surrendered for cancellation.

 

The secretary shall give, or cause to be given, notice of all meetings of the stockholders and of the board of directors required to be given by law or by these bylaws. The secretary shall keep the seal of the corporation, if one be adopted, in safe custody and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the board of directors or by these bylaws. 

 

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5.10 TREASURER. The treasurer, subject to the order of the board of directors, shall have the care and custody of, and be responsible for, all of the money, funds, securities, receipts and valuable papers, documents and instruments of the corporation, and all books and records relating thereto. The treasurer shall keep, or cause to be kept, full and accurate books of accounts of the corporation’s transactions, which shall be the property of the corporation, and shall render financial reports and statements of condition of the corporation when so requested by the board of directors, the chairman of the board of directors, if any, the chief executive officer, if any, or the president. The treasurer shall perform all other duties commonly incident to his or her office and such other duties as may, from time to time, be assigned to him or her by the board of directors, the chief executive officer, if any, the president, these bylaws or as provided by law. If a chief financial officer of the corporation has not been appointed, the treasurer may be deemed the chief financial officer of the corporation.

 

5.11 VICE PRESIDENTS. In the absence or disability of the president, the vice presidents, if any, in order of their rank as fixed by the board of directors or, if not ranked, a vice president designated by the board of directors, shall perform all the duties of the president and when so acting shall have all the powers of, and be subject to all the restrictions upon, the president. The vice presidents shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as from time to time may be prescribed for them respectively by the board of directors, these bylaws, the president or the chairman of the board.

 

5.12 REPRESENTATION OF SHARES OF OTHER CORPORATIONS. The chairman of the board, the chief executive officer, the chief financial officer, the president, any vice president, the secretary or assistant secretary of this corporation, or any other person authorized by the board of directors or the president or a vice president, is authorized to vote, represent, and exercise on behalf of this corporation all rights incident to any and all shares of any other corporation or corporations standing in the name of this corporation. The authority granted herein may be exercised either by such person directly or by any other person authorized to do so by proxy or power of attorney duly executed by such person having the authority.

 

5.13 AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS. In addition to the foregoing authority and duties, all officers of the corporation shall respectively have such authority and perform such duties in the management of the business of the corporation as may be designated from time to time by the board of directors.

 

ARTICLE VI

INDEMNITY

 

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, a director of the corporation shall not be personally liable to the corporation or to its stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty as a director, specifically:

 

(a)  Third Party Actions . The corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending, or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation) by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement (if such settlement is approved in in writing in advance by the corporation, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe such person’s conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interest of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that the person’s conduct was unlawful.

 

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(b)  Actions By or In Right of the Corporation . The corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) and amounts paid in settlement (if such settlement is approved in writing in advance by the corporation, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if such person acted in good faith and in manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the court shall deem proper. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article VI, no person shall be indemnified hereunder for any expenses or amounts paid in settlement with respect to any action to recover short-swing profits under Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

(c)  Successful Defense . To the extent that a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in subsections (a) and (b) above, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, such person shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection therewith.

 

(d)  Determination of Conduct . Any indemnification under subsections (a) and (b) above (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that the indemnification of the director, officer, employee or agent is proper in the circumstances because such person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in subsections (a) and (b) above. Such determination shall be made (i) by the board of directors by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, (ii) or if such quorum is not obtainable or, even if obtainable, a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (iii) by the stockholders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation shall be entitled to contest any determination that the director, officer, employee or agent has not met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in subsections (a) and (b) above by petitioning a court of competent jurisdiction.

 

(e)  Indemnity Not Exclusive . The indemnification provided by or granted pursuant to the other sections of this Article VI shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person’s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office.

 

(f)  Insurance Indemnification . The corporation shall have the power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity or arising out of such person’s status as such, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability under the provisions of this Article VI.

 

(g)  The Corporation . For purposes of this Article VI, references to “the corporation” shall include, in addition to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors, officers, and employees or agents, so that any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of such constituent corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under and subject to the provisions of this Article VI (including, without limitation the provisions of subsection (d) of this Article VI) with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as such person would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its separate existence had continued.

 

(h)  Employee Benefit Plans . For purposes of this Article VI, references to “other enterprises” shall include employee benefit plans; references to “fines” shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan; and references to “serving at the request of the corporation” shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer, employee, or agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants, or beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner “not opposed to the best interests of the corporation” as referred to in this Article VI.

 

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(i)  Continuation of Indemnification . The indemnification provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Article VI shall, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified, continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.

  

(j)  Amendments . Neither any amendment nor repeal of this Article VI, nor the adoption of any provision of the corporation’s Articles of Incorporation inconsistent with this Article VI, shall eliminate or reduce the effect of this Article VI, in respect of any matter occurring, or any action or proceeding accruing or arising or that, but for this Article VI, would accrue or arise, prior to such amendment, repeal, or adoption of an inconsistent provision.

 

 

ARTICLE VII

RECORDS AND REPORTS

 

7.1 MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION OF RECORDS. The corporation shall, either at its principal executive officer or at such place or places as designated by the board of directors, keep a record of its stockholders listing their names and addresses and the number and class of shares held by each stockholder, a copy of these bylaws as amended to date, accounting books, and other records.

 

7.2 ANNUAL LIST OF OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND REGISTERED AGENT. The corporation shall annually, on or before the last day of the month in which the anniversary date of incorporation occurs each year, file with the Nevada Secretary of State a list of its president, secretary and treasurer and all of its directors, along with the post office box or street address, either residence or business, and a designation of its resident agent in the state of Nevada. Such list shall be certified by an officer of the corporation.

 

ARTICLE VIII

GENERAL MATTERS

 

8.1 CHECKS. From time to time, the board of directors shall determine by resolution which person or persons may sign or endorse all checks, drafts, other orders for payment of money, notes or other evidences of indebtedness that are issued in the name of or payable to the corporation, and only the persons so authorized shall sign or endorse those instruments. 

 

8.2 EXECUTION OF CORPORATE CONTRACTS AND INSTRUMENTS. The board of directors, except as otherwise provided in these bylaws, may authorize any officer or officers, or agent or agents, to enter into any contract or execute any instrument in the name of and on behalf of the corporation; such authority may be general or confined to specific instances. Unless so authorized or ratified by the board of directors or within the agency power of an officer, no officer, agent or employee shall have any power or authority to bind the corporation by any contract or engagement or to pledge its credit or to render it liable for any purpose or for any amount.

 

8.3 STOCK CERTIFICATES; PARTLY PAID SHARES. The shares of the corporation shall be represented by certificates, provided that the board of directors of the corporation may provide by resolution or resolutions that some or all of any or all classes or series of its stock shall be uncertificated shares. Any such resolution shall not apply to shares represented by a certificate until such certificate is surrendered to the corporation. Notwithstanding the adoption of such a resolution by the board of directors, every holder of stock represented by certificates and upon request every holder of uncertificated shares shall be entitled to have a certificate signed by, or in the name of the corporation by the chairman or vice-chairman of the board of directors, or the president or vice-president, and by the chief financial officer or an assistant treasurer, or the secretary or an assistant secretary of such corporation representing the number of shares registered in certificate form. Any or all of the signatures on the certificate may be a facsimile or other electronic signature. In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature or other electronic signature has been placed upon a certificate has ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the corporation with the same effect as if such person were such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue.

 

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The corporation may issue the whole or any part of its shares as partly paid and subject to call for the remainder of the consideration to be paid therefor. Upon the face or back of each stock certificate issued to represent any such partly paid shares, upon the books and records of the corporation in the case of uncertificated partly paid shares, the total amount of the consideration to be paid therefor and the amount paid thereon shall be stated. Upon the declaration of any dividend on fully paid shares, the corporation shall declare a dividend upon partly paid shares of the same class, but only upon the basis of the percentage of the consideration actually paid thereon.

 

8.4 SPECIAL DESIGNATION ON CERTIFICATES. If the corporation is authorized to issue more than one class of stock or more than one series of any class, then the powers, the designations, the preferences, and the relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights shall be set forth in full or summarized on the face or back of the certificate that the corporation shall issue to represent such class or series of stock; provided, however, that, except as otherwise provided in the Nevada Revised Statutes, in lieu of the foregoing requirements there may be set forth on the face or back of the certificate that the corporation shall issue to represent such class or series of stock a statement that the corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests the powers, the designations, the preferences, and the relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights.

  

8.5 LOST AND REPLACEMENT CERTIFICATES. All certificates surrendered to the corporation, except those representing shares of treasury stock, shall be canceled and no new certificate shall be issued until the former certificate for a like number of shares shall have been canceled, except that in case of a lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated certificate, a new one may be issued therefor. However, any stockholder applying for the issuance of a stock certificate in lieu of one alleged to have been lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated shall, prior to the issuance of a replacement, provide the corporation with his, her or its affidavit of the facts surrounding the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation and, if required by the board of directors, an indemnity bond in an amount not less than twice the current market value of the stock, and upon such terms as the treasurer or the board of directors shall require which shall indemnify the corporation against any loss, damage, cost or inconvenience arising as a consequence of the issuance of a replacement certificate.  

 

When the Articles of Incorporation are amended in any way affecting the statements contained in the certificates for outstanding shares of capital stock of the corporation or it becomes desirable for any reason, in the discretion of the board of directors, including, without limitation, the merger of the corporation with another corporation or the conversion or reorganization of the corporation, to cancel any outstanding certificate for shares and issue a new certificate therefor conforming to the rights of the holder, the board of directors may order any holders of outstanding certificates for shares to surrender and exchange the same for new certificates within a reasonable time to be fixed by the board of directors. The order may provide that a holder of any certificate(s) ordered to be surrendered shall not be entitled to vote, receive distributions or exercise any other rights of stockholders of record until the holder has complied with the order, but the order operates to suspend such rights only after notice and until compliance.

 

8.6 CONSTRUCTION; DEFINITIONS. Unless the context requires otherwise, the general provisions, rules of construction, and definitions in the Nevada Revised Statutes shall govern the construction of these bylaws. Without limiting the generality of this provision, the singular number includes the plural, the plural number includes the singular, and the term “person” includes both a corporation and a natural person.

 

8.7 DIVIDENDS. The board of directors, subject to any restrictions contained in: (a) the Nevada Revised Statutes, or (b) the Articles of Incorporation, may declare and pay dividends upon the shares of its capital stock. Dividends may be paid in cash, in property, or in shares of the corporation’s capital stock.

 

The board of directors may set apart out of any of the funds of the corporation available for dividends a reserve or reserves for any proper purpose and may abolish any such reserve. Such purposes shall include but not be limited to equalizing dividends, repairing or maintaining any property of the corporation, and meeting contingencies.

 

8.8 FISCAL YEAR. The fiscal year of the corporation shall be fixed by resolution of the board of directors and may be changed by the board of directors. Absent such a resolution of the board of directors to the contrary, October 31 shall be the end of the fiscal year of the corporation.

 

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8.9 SEAL. The corporation may adopt a corporate seal, which shall be adopted and which may be altered by the board of directors, and may use the same by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or in any other manner reproduced.

 

8.10 TRANSFER OF STOCK. The board of directors shall have the power and authority to make such rules and regulations not inconsistent herewith as it may deem expedient concerning the issue, transfer, and registration of certificates for shares of the corporation’s stock. No transfer of stock shall be valid as against the corporation except on surrender and cancellation of any certificate(s) therefor accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignation or authority to transfer by the registered owner made either in person or under assignment. Whenever any transfer shall be expressly made for collateral security and not absolutely, the collateral nature of the transfer shall be reflected in the entry of transfer in the records of the corporation.

 

8.11 STOCK TRANSFER AGREEMENTS. The corporation shall have power to enter into and perform any agreement with any number of stockholders of any one or more classes of stock of the corporation to restrict the transfer of shares of stock of the corporation of any one or more classes owned by such stockholders in any manner not prohibited by the Nevada Revised Statutes. The board of directors may appoint one or more transfer agents, transfer clerks and registrars of transfer and may require all certificates for shares of stock to bear the signature of such transfer agents, transfer clerks and/or registrars of transfer.

 

8.12 REGISTERED STOCKHOLDERS. The corporation shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive right of a person registered on its books as the owner of shares to receive dividends and to vote as such owner, shall be entitled to hold liable for calls and assessments the person registered on its books as the owner of shares, and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of another person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise provided by the laws of Nevada. 

 

ARTICLE IX

AMENDMENTS

 

I n furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the board of directors is expressly authorized to adopt, amend or repeal these bylaws or adopt new bylaws without any action on the part of the stockholders; provided that any bylaw adopted or amended by the board of directors, and any powers thereby conferred, may be amended, altered or repealed by the stockholders.

 

ARTICLE X

CHANGES IN NEVADA LAW

 

References in these bylaws to the laws of the State of Nevada or the Nevada Revised Statutes or to any provision thereof shall be to such law as it existed on the date these bylaws were adopted or as such law thereafter may be changed;  provided   that  (a) in the case of any change which expands the liability of directors or officers or limits the indemnification rights which the corporation may provide pursuant to Article VI, the rights to limited liability, to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses provided in the Articles of Incorporation and/or these bylaws shall continue as theretofore to the extent permitted by law, and (b) if such change permits the corporation, without the requirement of any further action by stockholders or directors, to limit further the liability of directors or limit the liability of officers or to provide broader indemnification rights or rights to the advancement of expenses than the corporation was permitted to provide prior to such change, then liability thereupon shall be so limited and the rights to indemnification and the advancement of expenses shall be so broadened to the extent permitted by law.

   

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Exhibit 6.1

 

ADMINISTRATIVE AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES AGREEMENT

 

This ADMINISTRATIVE AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of January 1, 2017 (the “Effective Date”) is entered into by and between Patient Access Solutions Inc. a Nevada corporation through PASHealth Management Companies NY Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “Administrator”), and Integrative Medical Health Care of Plainview, PC d/b/a The CIIT Center of Plainview a New York corporation having its principal office at 131 Sunnyside Blvd, Plainview, NY 11803 (hereinafter referred to as the “PC”). (Administrator and the PC are sometimes collectively referred to as the “Parties” and individually as a “Party.”)

 

RECITALS :

 

WHEREAS , the PC is a validly existing professional corporation, formed for and engaged in the provision of medical services in Plainview, New York (the “Professional Services”) through individual physicians and other health care professionals who are licensed to practice in the State of New York and who are employed or engaged by the PC (the “Providers”); and

 

WHEREAS, Dr. Muneer Imam (“Dr. Imam) is a shareholder of the PC; and

 

WHEREAS , the PC has an office for its professional practice located at 131 Sunnyside Blvd, Plainview, NY 11803 and such other sites as it determines in its sole discretion (the “Practice”); and

 

WHEREAS , Administrator is a validly existing corporation, which has been formed to provide all medical equipment, furniture and fixtures, rental space, medical supplies, non-professional staff, management, administrative and collection services to the health care practice (the “Administrative and Management Services”); and

 

WHEREAS , the PC desires to focus its energies, expertise and time on the delivery of the Professional Services to patients and to accomplish this goal, PC desires to delegate the business functions of the Practice to persons with business expertise in this area; and

 

WHEREAS , the PC wishes to engage the Administrator to provide the Administrative and Management Services as are necessary and appropriate for the day-to-day administration of the non-medical aspects of the Practice, and the Administrator desires to provide such Administrative and Management Services, all upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.

 

NOW, THEREFORE , in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, and on the terms and subject to the conditions herein set forth, the Parties hereto agree as follows:

 

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ARTICLE 1

TERM OF AGREEMENT

 

Section 1.1      Term of Agreement . This Agreement shall commence on the Effective Date and shall be for five (5) years (the “Initial Term”), and shall thereafter automatically renew for successive one (1) year terms (the “Renewal Term(s)”) unless either party notifies the other no less than one hundred twenty (120) days prior to the expiration of the term then in effect that this Agreement will not be so renewed. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything else to the contrary herein or elsewhere, this Agreement may be earlier terminated pursuant to the terms of either Section 9.1 or Section 9.2, below. 

 

ARTICLE 2

RELATIONSHIP OF THE PARTIES

 

The PC and Administrator intend to act and perform as independent contractors. This Agreement is not intended to, and does not, create any partnership, joint venture, agency or employment relationship between the Parties. Administrator and the PC agree that the PC shall retain the authority to direct the medical, health care, professional, and ethical aspects of its operations. Administrator shall neither exercise control over, nor interfere with, the Provider-patient relationships of the PC, which shall be maintained strictly between the Providers of the PC and their patients.

 

ARTICLE 3

SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED BY ADMINISTRATOR

 

Section 3.1      Overall Functions . During the term of this Agreement, Administrator will license to the PC, the use of the Premises, Furnishings and Equipment as specifically defined and set forth in Schedule A . In addition to licensing the necessary Premises, Furnishings and Equipment to the PC, the Administrator also will provide the PC with a comprehensive range of Administrative and Management Services as set forth in this Article 3 with respect to all aspects of the PC’s operation of the non-medical aspects of the Practice. Administrator is hereby authorized to perform such additional services hereunder as PC deems to be necessary or appropriate for the efficient administrative functioning of the Practice. The PC hereby agrees that it will, subject to compliance with applicable patient confidentiality and other laws, provide such information and assistance to Administrator as is reasonably required by Administrator to perform its services hereunder.

 

Section 3.2      Scope of Administrative and Management Services; General Support Services . The PC hereby engages Administrator to provide the Administrative and Management Services set forth herein on an exclusive basis. The PC agrees that the purpose and intent of this Agreement is to relieve the PC, to the maximum extent possible, of the day-to-day administrative, accounting, management, and business aspects of its operation and business. Administrator will have no authority, directly or indirectly, to perform or supervise, and will not perform or supervise, any medical or healthcare function.

 

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Section 3.3      Furnishings.

 

(a)           Administrator hereby licenses to PC the use of the Furnishings (as set forth in Schedule A ), and PC hereby agrees to utilize the Furnishings in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth herein. The provisions and obligations in this Agreement are subject and subordinate to the provisions and obligations contained in any financing, security interest, mortgage, lien or other encumbrance Administrator may on its own behalf, but not on behalf of PC, in its reasonable discretion, place upon the Furnishings. The PC shall use the Furnishings only in connection with the conduct of the Practice and shall have no right to alter, repair, augment or remove any of the Furnishings from the Premises without the prior written consent of Administrator, which approval may be granted or withheld in Administrator’s sole discretion.

 

(b)        Administrator shall be responsible for the repair, maintenance and replacement of the Furnishings other than such repairs, maintenance and replacement necessitated by the negligence or willful misconduct of the PC, the Providers or other personnel employed or engaged by the PC.

 

Section 3.4      Equipment .

 

(a)        Administrator hereby licenses to the PC the use of all Medical Equipment in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth herein. Such equipment is listed in Schedule A . The provisions and obligations in this Agreement are subject and subordinate to the provisions and obligations contained in any financing, security interest, mortgage, lien or other encumbrance Administrator may, on its own behalf, but not on behalf of PC, in its reasonable discretion place upon the Equipment. During the Term hereof, the PC shall use the Equipment only in connection with the conduct of its business at the Practice and shall have no right to remove this Equipment from the Practice without the prior written consent of Administrator, which approval may be granted or withheld in Administrator’s sole discretion. The PC shall cause the Equipment to be operated in accordance with any applicable manufacturer’s manual of instructions and only by competent and qualified personnel.

 

(b)        The PC shall enjoy the benefit of whatever warranties presently exist with respect to the Equipment as set forth in the lease agreements presently covering said Equipment except if such lease agreements contain a provision to the contrary.

 

(c)        All accessories, replacements, parts and substitutions which are added or attached to the Equipment shall become the property of the Administrator (subject to the rights of the equipment lessors or vendors, as the case may be) and be within the definition of Equipment and subject to this Agreement.

 

(d)        Administrator shall be responsible for the repair, maintenance and replacement of the Equipment other than such repairs, maintenance and replacement necessitated by the negligence or willful misconduct of the PC, its Providers or other personnel employed or engaged by the PC.

 

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(e)        The Parties will use their best efforts to cooperate with one another in securing all licenses and permits necessary to the Administrator’s ownership of, and PC’s use and operation of, the Equipment.

 

Section 3.5      Recruitment . The Administrator shall, as and when requested by the PC, assist the PC with the administrative tasks involved in recruiting the Providers and any other professional staff necessary for the PC to provide the Professional Services, including, without limitation, advertising for open positions, obtaining and verifying credentialing information with respect to all applicants, and processing applications for participation in insurance plans, and the like. Notwithstanding the foregoing, primary responsibility for recruitment of the Providers and any other professional staff shall, at all times, remain with the PC. All determinations with respect to such personnel shall be made by the PC.  

Section 3.6      Premises .

 

(a)       Administrator hereby licenses to PC use of the Premises (as described in Schedule A ). PC agrees to use the Premises only for the purposes described in this Agreement and in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations. The PC acknowledges that the Administrator leases the Premises pursuant to certain lease or leases, which are referenced in Schedule A , a copy of which lease or leases is (are) annexed hereto (the “Master Lease”). The PC agrees to use the Premises in accordance with the Master Lease and the terms hereof and not to do or omit doing anything which will breach any of such terms.

 

(b)       Administrator shall be responsible for the repair, maintenance and replacement of the Premises, other than such repairs, maintenance and replacement necessitated by the negligence or willful misconduct of the PC, the Providers or other personnel employed or engaged by the PC.

 

(c)       In addition to the foregoing, Administrator shall provide, to the extent possible, necessary utilities and other services, including, without limitation, heat, water, gas, electricity, air conditioning, and telephone necessary for the PC to conduct the Practice in the Premises.

 

Section 3.7      Billing and Collection .

 

(a)        Administrator shall, on behalf of the PC, assist the PC in establishing collection policies and procedures and shall bill patients, insurance companies (if any) and other third-party payors (if any) in the name of the PC and collect the professional fees for services rendered by the PC. The PC hereby appoints Administrator for the term of this Agreement to be its true and lawful attorney-in-fact, and Administrator accepts such appointment, for the following limited purposes:

 

(i)        to bill patients and third party payors in the PC’s name and on its behalf;

 

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(ii)        to collect accounts receivable resulting from billing in the PC’s name and to deposit all amounts collected in the PC’s name and on behalf of the PC into the PC Account (as defined in Section 6.3), which shall be and at all times remain in the PC’s name and control. The PC covenants to deposit into, or to transfer and deliver to the Administrator for immediate deposit into, the PC Account all cash received, including patient co-payments, co-insurance and deductibles and accounts receivable.

 

(iii)        to contest and defend, using legal counsel selected by the PC and reimbursed directly by the PC, in any forum, any allegation of improper billing practices by the PC or its employees arising out of billing for services provided by Administrator; and

 

(iv)        to take possession of, and endorse in the name of the PC (and/or in the name of an individual Provider) any notes, checks, money orders and other instruments received in payment of accounts receivable.

 

(b)        The Administrator may not institute legal proceedings in the name of the PC to collect any accounts and monies owed to the PC, to enforce the rights of the PC as creditor under any contract or in connection with the rendering of any service. These decisions shall be made by the PC after consultation with the Administrator. The PC shall execute any and all documents required to effectuate the limited power of attorney granted herein.

 

(c)        Upon request of the Administrator, the PC shall execute and deliver to the financial institution wherein the PC Account (as defined in Section 6.3) is maintained, such additional documents or instruments as may be necessary to evidence or effect the special and limited power of attorney granted to the Administrator by the PC pursuant to this Section 3.7.

 

(d)        The power of attorney shall expire on the latest of the date that (i) this Agreement is terminated, (ii) all loan payments due under loans between the Administrator and the PC have been satisfied, or (iii) all Administrative Services Fees as defined in Paragraph 6.1 due to the Administrator have been paid. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the PC shall have the right to revoke the power of attorney in the event of a termination of this Agreement, but in the event that it does so prior to the satisfaction of the circumstances in subsections (ii) and (iii) of this Paragraph 3.7(d), then it shall be in default of this Agreement.

 

Section 3.8      Budgets .

 

(a)        As part of the Administrator’s responsibilities under this Agreement, Administrator shall assist the PC in preparation of an annual capital and operating budget (“Proposed Budget”). The Proposed Budget shall include all expenses to be incurred by the Practice, including, but not limited to, salaries and benefit expenses for Providers of the PC, including the monthly draw and benefit expenses of Dr. Imam, all insurance costs for the PC, legal fees of the PC, professional dues and license registration fees for the Providers, and the fees payable to the Administrator pursuant to Schedule B, the Administrative Services Fee. Each of these expenses, and the other expenses set forth in the Proposed Budget, shall be a “Proposed Budget Expense”. The finalized and approved Proposed Budget (“Approved Budget”) shall, once so finalized and approved in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, be attached to this Agreement as Exhibit A and shall remain in effect for the period for which it is adopted. The Approved Budget effective as of the Effective Date of this Agreement is annexed hereto as Exhibit A and shall remain in place for one (1) year from the Effective Date.

 

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(b) With respect to each budget period following the initial budget period, Administrator shall prepare and deliver a preliminary draft of each annual proposed budget (the “Proposed Budget”) to the PC not less than ninety (90) days prior to the commencement of the budget period to which such budget relates. Each Proposed Budget shall reflect the Administrator’s best estimate of projected annual costs and expenses of the PC and projected annual revenue of the PC. The PC shall, within fifteen (15) days after receiving the Proposed Budget, review the Proposed Budget and either approve such Proposed Budget or send Administrator a revised proposed budget. The approved Proposed Budget or the revised proposed budget shall then become the Approved Budget for the next year following the termination of the previous year’s Approved Budget, unless the Administrator determines that the revised proposed budget is not reasonable for the PC, in which case it shall send the PC a different revised proposed budget, which shall incorporate the revisions of the PC to the original Proposed Budget to the extent that the Administrator determines such budget is reasonable for the PC. Thereafter, the procedure outlined in this paragraph for the Proposed Budget shall be followed. If the Parties are not able to agree upon an Approved Budget within thirty (30) days prior to the budget period for which such budget relates, then either party may terminate this Agreement in accordance with Section 9.3, and the previous year’s Approved Budget shall remain in effect for such time.

 

(b)       Upon written request, Administrator shall provide the Practice and any of Practice’s shareholders, accountants or lawyers copies of all worksheets and other information that is the basis for Administrator’s calculation of the Proposed Budget and shall make itself available to respond to questions by the Practice and Practice’s shareholders, accountants or lawyers with regard to the Proposed Budget.

 

     (c)     Administrator shall use best efforts to assist the PC in managing the operations of the PC as herein provided so that the actual revenues, costs and expenses of the operation and maintenance of the PC during any applicable period shall be consistent with the Approved Budget.

 

Section 3.9      Bookkeeping and Business Records; Financial Services .

 

(a)        Administrator shall supervise and maintain all administrative and financial files and records relating to the operation of the Practice, including but not limited to accounting, billing, and collection records. In accordance with, and to the extent permitted by, applicable law, Administrator shall supervise the maintenance of all patient files and records. As required by applicable law, the Administrator shall enter into a Business Associate Agreement with the PC substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B .

 

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(b)        Administrator shall implement all PC-approved procedures, controls and systems for the timely generation and preparation of all financial records and reports needed for the review, planning and management of the operations and affairs of the PC. In furtherance of the foregoing, Administrator shall be responsible for: (i) the maintenance of all accounting and payroll systems; and (ii) the establishment and maintenance of accounts payable, record keeping, accounts receivable and general ledger procedures and practices appropriate to the PC’s operations. In addition, Administrator shall prepare all annual cash flow and capital operating budgets, all in accordance with the Approved Budget.

 

(c)        Notwithstanding anything set forth herein to the contrary, all taxes and other governmental obligations properly imposed on the PC shall be the obligation of the PC and Administrator shall have no responsibility or liability therefore. All taxes and other governmental obligations properly imposed on Administrator shall be the obligation of Administrator and the PC shall have no liability therefore.

 

Section 3.10      Inventory and Supplies . Administrator shall order and purchase PC-approved inventory and supplies, and such other ordinary, necessary or appropriate materials that shall be necessary for the operation of the Practice. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Administrator shall not be responsible for the prescribing, subscribing, dispensing or other distribution of any pharmaceuticals.

 

Section 3.11      Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations; Marketing System . Administrator shall implement all PC-approved public relations, marketing and advertising programs on behalf of the PC and the Practice, emphasizing among other things, the availability and quality of services at the Practice. All public relations, marketing and advertising programs shall be conducted in compliance with applicable laws and regulations governing advertising and at the direction of the PC.

 

Section 3.12      Personnel; Staff Education . Administrator shall provide PC-approved administrative and non-professional staff who shall perform work on behalf of the PC as leased employees of the Administrator (the “Leased Personnel”), none of whom shall be licensed professionals under New York State law. Administrator shall retain such Leased Personnel as may reasonably be required for the efficient operation of the Practice. The Administrator shall be responsible for all salaries, fringe benefits, taxes and insurance for the Leased Personnel. If the PC determines that any of the Leased Personnel is not performing appropriately or is endangering the welfare of the PC or the PC’s staff or patients, the PC shall contact the Administrator; and the PC and Administrator shall attempt to resolve the issue. If the PC and the Administrator are not able to resolve the issue, then the Leased Employee shall not provide services at the offices of the PC. Notwithstanding any contrary provisions contained herein, the PC shall be solely responsible for supervising all professional and licensed personnel performing the Professional Service as required by applicable law. 

 

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Section 3.13      Other Consulting and Advisory Services . In consultation with the PC, Administrator shall provide, as and when requested by PC, such other consulting and other business advisory services in all areas of the PC’s business functions, including, without limitation the following: (a) assistance in the development of long-term business objectives; (b) assistance in the development of short-term business goals; (c) assistance in the development of appropriate programs (such as seminars and lectures) whereby the expertise of the practitioners rendering services on behalf of the PC can be made known to the relevant public and the public at large; (d) assistance with the creation of business and marketing systems; (e) office layout; and (f) office interior design.

 

Section 3.14      Scheduling and Pre-Certification . Administrator shall maintain patient appointment services on behalf of PC, which services shall include scheduling, obtaining all appropriate pre-certification and approvals, and collecting and processing all demographic, insurance and related materials with respect to patients.

 

Section 3.15      Licensing, Inspection and Regulatory Fees . Administrator shall be responsible for the administrative work involved in the payment of the licensing, inspection and regulatory fees, provided that PC provides it with the relevant information sufficiently before payment is due. PC shall be responsible for all licensing, inspection and regulatory fees incurred in connection with the Professional Services provided by it and its Providers.

 

Section 3.16      Managed Care and Other Agreements . Administrator shall assist the PC in reviewing, evaluating, negotiation and securing contracts or agreements of the PC relating to the provision of the Professional Services by the PC. The Administrator is hereby granted the authority to negotiate on behalf of the PC, managed care arrangements for professional services within such parameters as are authorized, in advance, by the PC. The Administrator shall complete such applications to be signed by the PC. The Administrator shall also assist the PC with responding to any inquiries by any third party payor under any contract with the PC.

 

Section 3.17      Payroll . At the request of the PC, Administrator shall oversee the processing of payroll on behalf of the PC for the PC’s employees, consultants and independent contractors. Administrator shall manage all benefit plans of PC and process all claims of employees thereunder.

 

Section 3.18      Utilization Review, Quality Assurance and Peer Review . Administrator shall assist the PC in the creation and administration of utilization review, quality assurance, and peer review programs for the PC; provided, however, that in all events, the PC shall direct each of such programs.

 

Section 3.19      Events Excusing Performance . PC shall not have the right to terminate this Agreement pursuant to Section 9.1(a) or (b) in the event of strikes, lock-outs, calamities, acts of God, unavailability of supplies or other events over which Administrator has no control (a “Force Majeure Event”) as long as such event continues for a period of not more than one hundred twenty (120) days thereafter. In the event of such Force Majeure Event, Administrator shall not be liable to the PC for failure to perform any of the services required hereunder as long as such failure continues for a period of not more than one hundred twenty (120) days thereafter.

 

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Section 3.20     Support Services . Administrator shall provide or arrange for all printing, stationery, forms, postage, duplication or photocopying services, and other support services as are reasonably necessary and appropriate for the operation of the Practice.

 

Section 3.21      Licenses and Permits . Administrator shall, on behalf of and in the name of the PC, undertake the administrative work in connection with maintenance of all federal, state, and local licenses and regulatory permits required for or in connection with the operation of the PC and equipment located at the PC’s Office, provided that the PC provides the Administrator with all information related to such licenses and permits.

 

Section 3.22      Reports and Records . Administrator shall establish, monitor, and maintain procedures and policies for the timely creation, preparation, filing and retrieval of all medical records generated by the PC in connection with the PC’s provision of the Professional Services; and, subject to applicable law, shall ensure that medical records are promptly available to the Providers and any other appropriate persons. All such medical records shall be retained and maintained in accordance with all applicable State and federal laws relating to the confidentiality and retention thereof. All medical records shall be and remain the property of the PC. Administrator shall timely create, prepare, and file such additional reports and records as are reasonably necessary and appropriate for the PC’s provision of the Professional Services, and shall be prepared to analyze and interpret such reports and records upon the request of the PC.

 

Section 3.23       Insurance . Throughout the Term, Administrator shall obtain and maintain with commercial carriers, appropriate workers’ compensation coverage and such other employment related insurance as required by State law for Administrator’s Leased Employees provided pursuant to this Agreement, and comprehensive general liability insurance covering Administrator on such basis and upon such terms and conditions as is appropriate in the determination of Administrator. Upon the request of the PC (not more often than annually), Administrator shall provide the PC with a certificate evidencing such insurance coverage.

 

Section 3.24       Representations and Warranties of Administrator .

 

(a)        The Administrator is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of New York.

 

(b)        The execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Administrator and the performance of its duties hereunder (i) have been duly authorized by all necessary action, and this Agreement constitutes the valid and binding obligation of the Administrator, enforceable against the Administrator in accordance with its terms and (ii) will not violate or conflict with any provision of law or of the Administrator’s Certificate of Incorporation or Shareholders Agreement and will not result in a breach of or constitute a default under any agreement or instrument to which the Administrator or any of its officers, directors or members may be a party or by which any of them may be bound or affected.

 

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(c)        The Administrator, its employees and contractors, if any, shall at all times during the term of this Agreement, comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations governing companies of its type.  

   

ARTICLE 4

OBLIGATIONS OF THE PC

 

Section 4.1      Employment of Professional Employees . The PC shall have complete control of and responsibility for the hiring, compensation, supervision, evaluation and termination of its professional employees and contractors. Although Administrator shall provide payroll and other related services to the PC, the PC shall be solely responsible for the payment of all of its expenses, including but not limited to its contractors’ wages, and its employees’ salaries and wages, payroll taxes and all other taxes and charges now or hereafter applicable to them. The PC and its employees shall not have any claim under this Agreement or otherwise against Administrator for workers’ compensation, unemployment compensation, Social Security benefits or any other employee benefits, all of which shall be the sole responsibility of the PC. The PC shall only employ and contract with licensed medical professional employees who have not been terminated or excluded under the Medicare or Medicaid programs or any other federal or state health care program. The PC shall be exclusively responsible to maintain, or cause each of its Providers to maintain, professional liability on behalf of the PC and each of its Providers. Administrator shall assist the PC in monitoring the professional liability insurance coverage of its professional employees.

 

Section 4.2      Professional Services . The PC retains responsibility for providing Services in accordance with the professional standards and principles that apply to professionals providing the Professional Services. The PC shall provide the Professional Services to patients in compliance at all times with ethical standards, laws and regulations applicable to the medical profession. The PC shall ensure that each physician or licensed professional associated with the PC who provides medical care to patients at the Premises is licensed by the State of New York to render professional medical services.

 

Section 4.3      PC’s Internal Matters . The PC shall be responsible for all matters involving its corporate governance, employees and similar internal matters, including, but not limited to, preparation and contents of such reports to regulatory authorities governing the PC that the PC is required by law to provide, disposition of the PC’s property, hiring and firing of its professional employees and licensing. The expenses related to such internal matters shall be the sole responsibility of the PC.

 

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Section 4.4      Compliance with Laws . Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, the PC remains responsible for ensuring that the Professional Services provided by it comply with all pertinent provisions of federal, state and local statutes, rules, regulations and standards of professional conduct. The PC shall use its best efforts to forbid any employee or contractor to:

 

(a)        enter into any contract, lease, agreement or arrangement, including, but not limited to, any joint venture or consulting agreement, to provide services, lease space, lease equipment or engage in any other venture or activity with any hospital, pharmacy, home health agency or other person or entity which is in a position to make or influence referrals to, or otherwise generate business for, the PC, if such transaction is in violation of any applicable law, rule or regulation;

 

(b)        knowingly and willfully make or cause to be made a false statement or representation of a material fact in any application for any benefit or payment;

 

(c)        knowingly and willfully make or cause to be made a false statement or representation of a material fact for use in determining rights to any benefit or payment;

 

(d)        fail to disclose knowledge by a claimant of the occurrence of any event affecting the initial or continued right to any benefit or payment on its own behalf or on behalf of another, with intent to fraudulently secure such benefit or payment; and

 

(e)        knowingly and willfully pay, solicit or receive any remuneration (including any kickback, bribe, or rebate), directly or indirectly, overtly or covertly, in cash or in kind or offer to pay or receive such remuneration (i) in return for referring an individual to a person for the furnishing or arranging for the furnishing of any item or service for which payment may be made in whole or in part by Medicare or Medicaid, or (ii) in return for purchasing, leasing, or ordering, or arranging for or recommending purchasing, leasing, or ordering any good, facility, service, or item for which payment may be made in whole or in part by Medicare or Medicaid.

 

Section 4.5      Additional Representations and Warranties of PC .

 

(a)        The PC is a professional corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of New York and duly authorized to render the Professional Services.

 

(b)        The execution and delivery of this Agreement by the PC and the performance of its duties hereunder (i) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, and this Agreement constitutes the valid and binding obligation of the PC, enforceable against the PC in accordance with its terms and (ii) will not violate or conflict with any provision of law or of the PC’s Certificate of Incorporation or By-Laws and will not result in a breach of or constitute a default under any agreement or instrument to which the PC or any of its officers, directors or shareholders may be a party or by which any of them may be bound or affected.

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(c)        The PC, its employees and professional subcontractors, if any, shall at all times during the term of this Agreement, be duly licensed as required by the State of New York and shall comply with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and standards of professional conduct relating to the operation of the Practice.  

 

(d)        Dr. Imam is the sole Shareholder of the PC and no other individuals or entity has an interest in the PC.

 

ARTICLE 5

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

 

Section 5.1        Confidential Information and Proprietary Information .

 

(a)        Each Party recognizes the proprietary interest of the other Party in its Confidential and Proprietary Information (as hereinafter defined). The Parties acknowledge and agree that any and all Confidential and Proprietary Information communicated to, learned of, developed or otherwise acquired by a Party during the term of this Agreement shall be and is the property of the Originating Party (the Party who has the Confidential and Proprietary Information as part of its business originally). Each Party further acknowledges and understands that its disclosure of any Confidential and Proprietary Information of the Originating Party may result in irreparable injury and damage to such Party. As used herein, “Confidential and Proprietary Information” means, but is not limited to, information derived from reports, investigations, research, work in progress, codes, marketing and sales programs, financial projections, cost summaries, pricing formula, contracts analyses, financial information, projections, maps, confidential filings with any state or federal agency, and all other concepts, methods of doing business, ideas, materials or information prepared by a Party, by its employees, officers, directors, agents, representatives or consultants. “Confidential and Proprietary Information” shall not include any of the foregoing items which: (i) prior to or after the time of disclosure, become publicly known and generally available (other than as a result of any improper action or inaction of a Party); (ii) at any time rightfully disclosed to a Party by a third party or parties without violation of any obligation of confidentiality and without restriction on disclosure; and/or (iii) is required to be disclosed by applicable law or proper legal, governmental or other competent authority, provided that the other Party shall be notified sufficiently in advance of such requirement so that such Party can seek an appropriate protective order with respect to such disclosure.

 

(b)        The Parties agree at all times during the term of this Agreement and following the termination hereof for any reason, to hold in strictest confidence and not to disclose to any person, firm or corporation, other than to attorneys, accountants and other persons engaged by such Party, directly or indirectly, the Confidential and Proprietary Information, without the prior written consent of the other Party in each instance, and not to use the Confidential and Proprietary Information in any manner directly or indirectly other than in performance of its obligations under this Agreement.

 

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(c)        In the event of any termination of this Agreement for any reason whatsoever, each Party shall promptly deliver to the other all documents, data and other information containing or pertaining to Confidential and Proprietary Information of the Originating Party, and destroy such information which is not capable of being returned.

 

Section 5.2      Breach of Confidentiality . The Parties acknowledge that the restrictions contained in this Article 5 are reasonable and necessary to protect the legitimate business interests of each Party and that any violation thereof would result in irreparable harm to the other Party. It is agreed that any breach of the confidentiality provisions herein by a Party under this Article 5 shall entitle the other Party, in addition to all other remedies it may seek, to apply to any court of competent jurisdiction to enjoin any violation, threatened or actual, of the restrictions contained in this Article 5, without posting bond or other security.

 

 

 

Section 5.3      Survival . The provisions of this Article 5 shall survive any termination of this Agreement.

 

ARTICLE 6

FEES AND PAYMENTS

 

Section 6.1      Administrative Services Fee . The PC and the Administrator agree to the fixed annual administrative services fee set forth in Schedule B (“Administrative Services Fee”) as being paid to the Administrator in consideration of the goods and services set forth in this Agreement. The fee set forth in Schedule B shall include all sums due under Schedule A for licensing of the Premises, Equipment and Furnishings plus the sums due for all the Administrative and Management Services.

 

Section 6.2      Fees Payable Upon Termination . Upon termination of this Agreement for any reason, all outstanding Administrative Service Fees shall become immediately due and payable.

 

Section 6.3      The PC Account .

 

(a)        All payments with respect to accounts receivable and all patient co-payments will be directed to an account established in the name of and maintained by the PC (the “PC Account”). Administrator shall have access to the PC Account solely for the purpose of depositing funds into the PC Account. Dr. Imam shall be the only authorized signatory on the PC Account. All checks drawn on the PC Account shall require Dr. Imam’s signature; and (ii) all wire transfers from the PC Account shall require Dr. Imam’s written authorization.

 

(b)        The PC will pay from the PC Account, on a monthly basis, all Approved Budgeted Expenses incurred on or after the Effective Date. The PC shall apply funds that are in the PC Account in the following order of priority:

 

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(i)          First, to pay Approved Budget Expenses, including compensation to all PC employees, and the budgeted monthly draw to Dr. Imam;

 

(ii)         Next, to pay one-twelfth (1/12 th ) of the annual Administrative Service Fee reflected in Schedule B ;

 

(iii)        Then, to other expenses of the PC that are not part of the Approved Budget Expenses but that have been incurred by the PC;

 

(iv)        the remaining balance shall be allocated at the PC’s discretion.

 

Section 6.4      Fair Market Value Administrative Services Fee . The PC and the Administrator agree that the Administrative Service Fee set forth in Schedule B reflects the result of an arms-length negotiation between the Parties. An independent third-party appraisal was obtained in an effort to establish the Administrative Service Fee set forth in Schedule B at fair market value. The PC and the Administrator may each obtain additional independent third-party appraisals during the Term as each sees fit in its sole and absolute discretion, at its cost.

 

ARTICLE 7

RECORDS

  

Section 7.1      Ownership of Records . All business, personnel, financial and other records (including patient medical records) relating in any way to the operation of the PC shall at all times be and remain the sole property of the PC; provided, subject to compliance with applicable law, Administrator shall have the right to maintain a photocopy of non-patient records thereof.

 

Section 7.2      Access to Records . During the term of this Agreement, and thereafter as needed for any post-termination matters, (i) Administrator or its agents shall have reasonable access during normal business hours to review the PC records described in Section 7.1 above, and (ii) PC or its agents shall have reasonable access during normal business hours to review records of collections, expenses and disbursement as kept by Administrator in performing Administrator’s obligations under this Agreement. Either party, subject to compliance with law, may copy such records as needed for business operations, at its own expense, at such times and upon such notice as not to unreasonably interfere with the business of the other party.

 

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ARTICLE 8

INSURANCE AND INDEMNITY

 

Section 8.1      Insurance .

 

(a)        The PC agrees and covenants to maintain, at its sole cost and expense, on behalf of the PC, malpractice insurance in the minimum amount of $1,300,000.00 per occurrence and $3,900,000.00 in the aggregate during the term of this Agreement. The PC shall provide the Administrator with a copy of such policy or policies. The policy shall provide for at least thirty (30) days advance written notice from the insurer to the Administrator of any alteration, cancellation or termination of the foregoing coverage.

 

(b)        The PC covenants and agrees to require all professional personnel hired or contracted by it and who perform services for the PC, at their own cost and expense or at the cost and expense of the PC, to maintain malpractice insurance in the minimum amounts indicated in Section 8.1(a). Such policies shall provide for thirty (30) days advance written notice to the Administrator from the insurer of any alteration, cancellation or termination of the foregoing coverage. In the event of receipt of such notice, the PC shall immediately advise the Administrator of any such alteration, cancellation or termination of malpractice coverage. 

 

Section 8.2      Indemnification .

 

(a)        The PC shall indemnify, defend and hold the Administrator, its officers, directors, employees, agents and consultants harmless, from and against any and all liabilities, losses, damages, claims, causes of action and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees), not covered by insurance (collectively, “Losses”), whenever arising or incurred, that are caused or asserted to have been caused, directly or indirectly, by or as a result of: (i) the performance of medical or other professional services; and/or (ii) the performance of any intentional acts or negligent acts or omissions by the PC and/or its agents, employees and/or contractors (other than Administrator).

 

(b)        The Administrator shall indemnify, defend and hold the PC, its officers, directors, employees, agents and consultants, harmless from and against any and all Losses, whenever arising or incurred, that are caused or asserted to have been caused, directly or indirectly, by or as a result of the performance of any intentional acts or negligent acts or omissions by the Administrator and/or its agents, employees and/or contractors (other than the PC) during the term of this Agreement.

 

(c)        Any party seeking indemnification under this Agreement (each, an “Indemnitee”) shall give the party from whom indemnification is sought (the “Indemnitor”) prompt written notice of each claim for which it seeks indemnification. Failure to give such prompt notice shall not relieve Indemnitor of its indemnification obligation; provided that such indemnification obligation shall be reduced by any damages the Indemnitor demonstrates it has suffered resulting from a failure to give prompt notice hereunder. The Indemnitor, at its own expense, shall be entitled to participate in the defense of such claim. If at any time the Indemnitor acknowledges in writing that the claim is fully indemnifiable by it under this Agreement, the Indemnitor shall have the right to assume control of the defense of such claim at its own expense. If the Indemnitor does assume control of the defense of any such claim in accordance with the foregoing sentence, then: (x) the Indemnitor shall not defend the claim for which indemnification is being sought in any manner that would likely have a material adverse effect on the Indemnitee or on any relationship that the Indemnitee may have with any customers, vendors, suppliers, patients, or others, and (y) the Indemnitee shall not settle such claim without the written consent of the Indemnitor, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned. Nothing contained in this Section shall prevent either party from assuming control of the defense and/or settling any claim against it for which indemnification is not sought under this Agreement.

 

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(d)        The provisions of this Section 8.2 shall survive termination of this Agreement.

 

(e)       Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, PC and Administrator agree that in relation to each other, PC and Administrator shall not have any right to sue for or collect, and PC and Administrator shall never have any liability or responsibility whatsoever to the other for, any incidental, or consequential damages, whether proximately or remotely related to any default of the other under this Agreement, or any act, omission or negligence of PC or Administrator or their respective agents, contractors or employees, as the case may be, and PC and Administrator hereby waive any and all such rights.

  

ARTICLE 9

TERMINATION OF AGREEMENT

 

Section 9.1      Termination by the PC . The PC may terminate this Agreement by giving written notice thereof to Administrator upon the occurrence of any of the following events and such termination shall be effective upon the giving of such notice, or after the expiration of any applicable waiting or cure period as set forth below if so required:

 

(a)        Administrator shall default in the performance of any material duty or material obligation imposed upon it by this Agreement and such default shall continue for a period of thirty (30) days after written notice thereof has been given to Administrator by the PC. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event a default is not reasonably capable of being cured within the 30-day period described above, then so long as the defaulting party shall commence a cure within such 30-day period and shall diligently pursue such cure to completion, then the non-defaulting party shall not have the right to terminate this Agreement.

 

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(b)        Administrator shall file or cause to be filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy or make an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or upon other action taken or suffered by Administrator, voluntarily or involuntarily, under any federal or state law for the benefit of debtors, except for the filing of a petition in involuntary bankruptcy against Administrator which is dismissed within ninety (90) days thereafter.

 

(c )     Administrator fails to comply with state or federal statutes or regulations, or following an investigation involving potential violations of such laws, the Administrator is found guilty of such violations.

  

Section 9.2      Termination by Administrator . Administrator may terminate this Agreement by giving written notice thereof to the PC upon the occurrence of any of the following events and such termination shall be effective upon the giving of such notice, or after the expiration of any applicable waiting or cure period as set forth below if so required:

 

(a)        The PC shall default in the performance of any material duty or material obligation imposed upon it by this Agreement, and such default shall continue for a period of thirty (30) days after written notice thereof has been given to the PC by Administrator. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event a default is not reasonably capable of being cured within the 30-day period described above, then so long as the defaulting party shall commence a cure within such 30-day period and shall diligently pursue such cure to completion, then the non-defaulting party shall not have the right to terminate this Agreement.

 

(b)        The PC shall file or cause to be filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy or make an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or upon other action taken or suffered by the PC, voluntarily or involuntarily, under any federal or state law for the benefit of debtors, except for the filing of a petition in involuntary bankruptcy against the PC which is dismissed within ninety (90) days thereafter.

 

(c)        The PC fails to comply with state or federal statutes or regulations, or becomes following an investigation involving potential violations of such laws, the PC is found guilty of such violations.

 

(d)        The PC engages in any conduct for which the Shareholder’s license is revoked or suspended for a period greater than thirty (30) days, or the PC or Shareholder is otherwise disciplined by any licensing, regulatory or professional entity or institution.

 

Section 9.3      Termination Upon Notice . After the first twelve months of this Agreement, either Party may terminate upon not less than six (6) months prior written notice to the other party and such notice shall specify the effective date of termination.

 

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Section 9.4      Effect of Termination . The termination of this Agreement shall be effective on the date indicated in Section 9.1, 9.2 or 9.3, above (the “Termination Date”) and this Agreement shall terminate and shall be of no further force and effect, provided, however:

 

(a)        Each party hereto shall provide the other Party with reasonable access to books and records owned by it to permit such requesting Party to satisfy reporting and contractual obligations which may be required of it.

 

(b)        Amounts due and owing but unpaid to either Administrator or the PC as of the Termination Date shall be paid promptly by the appropriate Party.

 

(c)        Any and all covenants and obligations of either Party hereto which by their terms or by reasonable implication are to be performed, in whole or in part, after the termination of this Agreement, shall survive such termination.

 

(d)        The Administrator shall turn over all books, records, financial statements, billing and collection records, reports and software related to the business of the PC to the PC.

 

(e)        The Administrator shall receive fair market value payment for any post-termination collection services performed on behalf of the PC, defined as the same rate as provided for during the Term.

 

ARTICLE 10

RETENTION OF AUTHORITY BY THE PC

 

Section 10.1      Responsibilities of PC . Notwithstanding any provision contained in this Agreement or elsewhere, the PC retains the ultimate authority and responsibility for the operation of the PC, including without limitation the following:

 

(a)        direct independent authority over the appointment or dismissal of the PC’s professional employees ( i.e. , physicians and other licensed medical professionals);

 

(b)        final adoption or approval of the PC’s operating policies and procedures and independent adoption of policies affecting the delivery of services, including the supervision of all professional employees;

 

(c)        approval of the PC’s contracts for management or for the provision of services;     

 

(d)        approval of the initiation of legal proceedings and settlements of administrative proceedings or litigation to which the PC is a party;

 

(e)        approval and execution of all third-party payor and other managed care contracts;

 

(f)        approval of all procedures and controls and systems for the timely generation and preparation of financial records and reports necessary for management and operation of the PC;

 

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(g)        payment of all taxes and governmental obligations imposed on the PC;

 

(h)        approval of inventory and supply vendors for materials to by utilized in the Practice;

 

(i)         approval of all public relations, marketing and advertising programs of the PC;

 

(j)         approval of utilization review and quality assurance and peer review programs for the PC; and

 

(k)        selection of its accountants, attorneys and other professional advisors.

 

Section 10.2      The Practice of Medicine . Neither the Administrator nor any of its personnel shall undertake or be deemed to undertake the practice of medicine or any other health care profession. The Administrator is not authorized to engage in any activity which may be construed or deemed under any existing or future law or regulation to constitute the practice of medicine, the ownership or operation of a medical practice or the operation of a health care facility. To the extent that any acts of the Administrator required by any provision of this Agreement shall be construed or deemed to constitute the practice of medicine or any health care profession, said provision shall be void ab initio or from the date of adoption of such law or regulation, as the case may be, and the performance of said act or service shall be deemed waived. The PC shall be solely responsible for all aspects of the Professional Services provided by the PC as well as the supervision, selection, direction, contracting, hiring and termination of the Providers, and all other health care professionals rendering the Professional Services on the PC’s behalf. The PC agrees to hire or engage only duly licensed and qualified health professionals in connection with the conduct of its business on behalf of the PC.

 

ARTICLE 11

GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

Section 11.1      Assignment .

 

(a)        The PC shall not:

 

(i)        assign, mortgage or encumber this Agreement, or sublet the Premises or any part of it, or permit its use by others, unless Administrator gives the PC its prior written consent;

 

(ii)      pledge, loan, create a security interest in, or abandon possession of, the Premises or any Furnishings or Equipment;

 

(iii)     attempt to dispose of the Premises or any Furnishings or Equipment; or

 

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(iv)        permit any liens or legal process arising by, through or under the PC, to be incurred or levied on the Premises or any part thereof or and Furnishing or Equipment.

 

(b)        Any action taken by the PC in contravention of this paragraph shall be void ab initio . If consent for such action is sought by the PC from Administrator, Administrator may, in its sole discretion, grant or withhold such consent. If given, such consent shall only be valid if in writing signed by Administrator.

 

(c)        Administrator shall have the right to assign this Agreement to any party which agrees to assume the liabilities and obligations of Administrator hereunder, and upon such assignment and assumption, Administrator shall have no further obligation to the PC or its Member under this Agreement.

 

Section 11.2      Amendments . This Agreement shall not be modified or amended except by a written document executed by both parties to this Agreement.

 

Section 11.3      Waiver of Provisions . Any waiver of any terms and conditions hereof must be in writing, and signed by the parties hereto. The waiver of any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of any other terms and conditions hereof.

 

Section 11.4      Additional Documents . Each of the parties hereto agrees to execute any document or documents that may be requested from time to time by the other party to implement or complete such party’s obligations pursuant to this Agreement.

 

Section 11.5      Contract Modifications for Prospective Legal Events . In the event any state or federal laws or regulations, now existing or enacted or promulgated after the date hereof, are interpreted by judicial decision, a regulatory agency or legal counsel in such a manner as to indicate that this Agreement or any provision hereof may be in violation of such laws or regulations, the PC and Administrator shall amend this Agreement as necessary to preserve the underlying economic and financial arrangements between the PC and Administrator and without substantial economic detriment to either party to the extent possible while complying with such law or regulation. To the extent any act or service required of Administrator in this Agreement should be construed or deemed, by any governmental authority, agency or court to constitute the practice of medicine or other health care professional, the performance of said act or service by Administrator shall be deemed waived and forever unenforceable and the provisions of this Section 11.5 shall be applicable. Neither party shall claim or assert illegality as a defense to the enforcement of this Agreement or any provision hereof; instead, any such purported illegality shall be resolved pursuant to the terms of this Section 11.5 and Section 11.8.

 

Section 11.6      Parties In Interest; No Third Party Beneficiaries . Except as otherwise provided herein, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the respective heirs, legal representatives, successors and permitted assigns of the parties hereto. Neither this Agreement nor any other agreement contemplated hereby shall be deemed to confer upon any person not a party hereto or thereto any rights or remedies hereunder or thereunder.

 

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Section 11.7      Entire Agreement . This Agreement and the agreements contemplated hereby constitute the entire agreement of the parties regarding the subject matter hereof, and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, both written and oral, among the parties, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof.

 

Section 11.8      Severability . If any provision of this Agreement is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable under present or future laws effective during the term hereof, such provision shall be fully severable and this Agreement shall be construed and enforced as if such illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision never comprised a part hereof; and the remaining provisions hereof shall remain in full force and effect and shall not be affected by the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision or by its severance herefrom. Furthermore, in lieu of such illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision, there shall be added automatically as part of this Agreement a provision as similar in its terms to such illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision as may be possible and be legal, valid and enforceable.

 

Section 11.9      Governing Law and Jurisdiction . This Agreement and the rights and obligations of the Parties hereto shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws (but not the rules governing conflicts of laws) of the State of New York. Each party to this Agreement hereby agrees and consents that any legal action or proceedings with respect to this Agreement shall only be brought in and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York and in the County of Nassau. By execution and delivery of this Agreement, each party hereby (i) accepts the jurisdiction of the aforesaid courts; (ii) waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the venue set forth above; and (iii) further waives any claim that any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. 

 

Section 11.10      No Waiver; Remedies Cumulative . The Parties shall not by any act (except by written instrument pursuant to Section 11.2 hereof), delay, indulgence, omission or otherwise be deemed to have waived any right or remedy hereunder or to have acquiesced in any default in or breach of any of the terms and conditions hereof. No failure to exercise, nor any delay in exercising, on the part of a party, any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof. No single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege hereunder shall preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. No remedy set forth in this Agreement or otherwise conferred upon or reserved to any party shall be considered exclusive of any other remedy available to any party, but the same shall be distinct, separate and cumulative and may be exercised from time to time as often as occasion may arise or as may be deemed expedient.

 

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Section 11.11      Notice . All notices, requests, demands and other communications under or in connection with this Agreement shall be given in writing and shall be deemed to have been given or made: if by hand, immediately upon delivery; if by telex, telecopier or similar electronic device, two hours after sending provided receipt is confirmed (and if not, then upon confirmation of receipt); if by Federal Express, Express Mail or any other overnight service, the first business day after dispatch; or if mailed by certified mail return receipt requested, four business days after delivery to the post office, postage prepaid. All notices shall be delivered or mailed to the parties at the following address (or to such other address as either party shall designate by notice in accordance with the provisions to this paragraph):

  

As defined in paragraph 1

 

Section 11.12      Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in multiple counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, and all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF , the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first written above. 

     
  ADMINISTRATOR:
     
   
     
  Dated:  
     
  PC:  
     
     
     
  Dated:  

   

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Schedule “A”

 

Fee Schedule to be paid by PC (CIIT) to Administrator (PAS)

  

1. The Premises shall be licensed to the PC at the rate of $582,000 per annum

a. The Premises shall be located at: 131 Sunnyside Blvd, Ste 100, Plainview, NY 11803

b. Monthly taxes-$10,000

c. Monthly utilities-$8,500

d. Monthly maintenance-$5,000

e. Monthly rent-$25,000

 

2. Furnishings and Fixtures: $250,000 per annum

a. All office furniture and fixtures

 

3. Medical Equipment: $500,000 per annum

a. All medical exam room equipment

b. Hyperbaric Oxygen Units (HBOT)

c. IV Therapy Equipment

d. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

e. QEEG, Brain mapping, Braincore and Neuro feedback equipment

f. Adult Physical Therapy Equipment

g. Pediatric PT/OT Sensory gym equipment

h. Senex Machines

 

4. Day to day Administration- $720,000 per annum

 

5. Accounting-$55,000 per annum

 

6. Recruitment Fee-25% of Annual salary

 

7. Billing-8% of Gross billings

 

8. Bookkeeping- Services-$35,000 per annum

 

9. Marketing-$250,000 per annum

 

10. Non Medical Personnel Leased to PC-$325,000 per annum

 

11. Payroll Processing-$35,000 per annum

 

12. Additional Advisory Fees- $150,000 per annum

 

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Schedule “B”

 

Administrative Service Fee Due to the Administrator

 

In addition to the Fees payable by the PC under Schedule A:

 

In consideration for Administrator’s performance of its obligations set forth pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including without limitation, the provision of the Administrative and Management Services, the PC agrees to pay to Administrator a fixed fee sum of $425,000.00 per annum, payable in monthly installments of $35,000.00.

 

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Exhibit 6.2

 

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT-Renewal

 

 

AGREEMENT, dated as of May 1, 2014, (the "Commencement Date") between Patient Access Solutions, Inc., a New York corporation (referred to as the "Company"), and the Executive identified on Exhibit A attached hereto (the "Executive").

 

WITNESSETH:

 

WHEREAS, the Company desires to retain the services of the Executive and to that end desires to enter into a contract of employment, upon the terms and conditions herein set forth; and

 

WHEREAS, the Executive desires to be employed by the Company upon such terms and conditions;

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual benefits and covenants contained herein, the parties hereto, intending to be bound, hereby agree as follows:

 

1. APPOINTMENT AND TERM

 

Subject to the terms hereof, the Company hereby employs the Executive, and the Executive hereby accepts employment with the Company, all in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth herein, for a period commencing on the date hereof (the "Commencement Date") and ending on the date (the "Expiration Date") set forth in Exhibit A, unless the parties mutually agree in writing upon a later date.

 

2. DUTIES

 

(a) During the term of this Agreement, the Executive shall be employed in the position set forth in Exhibit A and shall, unless prevented by incapacity, devote all of his/her business time, attention and ability during normal corporate office business hours to the discharge of his/her duties hereunder and to the faithful and diligent performance of such duties and the exercise of such powers as may be assigned to or vested in his/her by the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board"), the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and any other senior executive officer of the Company, such duties to be consistent with his/her position. The Executive shall obey the lawful directions of the Board, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer and any other senior executive officer of the Company and shall use his/her diligent efforts to promote the interests of the Company and to maintain and promote the reputation thereof.

 

(b) The Executive shall not during the term of employment (except as a representative of the Company or with the consent in writing of the Board) be directly or indirectly engaged or concerned or interested in any other business activity, except through ownership of an interest of not more than 2% in any entity that does not compete with the Company, provided it does not impair the ability of the Executive to discharge fully and faithfully his/her duties hereunder.

 

(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the Executive shall be entitled to serve in various leadership capacities in civic, charitable and professional organizations. The Executive recognizes that his/her primary and paramount responsibility is to the Company.

 

(d) The Executive shall be based in the Hauppauge, New York, except for required travel on the Company's business.

 

3. REMUNERATION

 

(a) As compensation for the services pursuant hereto, the Executive shall be paid a base salary during employment hereunder at the annual rate set forth in Exhibit A. This amount shall be payable in equal periodic installments in accordance with the usual payroll practices of the Company.

 

(b) Except as provided above, in Exhibit A and in Sections 4 and 6 hereof, the Executive shall not be entitled to receive any additional compensation, remuneration or other payments from the Company.

 

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4. HEALTH INSURANCE AND OTHER FRINGE BENEFITS

 

The Executive shall be entitled to participate in regular employee fringe benefit programs, if applicable, to the extent such programs are offered by the Company to its executive employees, including, but not limited to, medical, hospitalization and disability insurance and life insurance, Section 529 education plan and 401(k) plan.

 

5. VACATION

 

The Executive shall be entitled to the number of weeks of vacation set forth in Exhibit A (in addition to the usual national holidays) during each contract year during which he serves hereunder. Such vacation shall be taken at such time or times as will be mutually agreed between the Executive and the

Company. Vacation not taken during a calendar year may not be carried forward.

 

6. REIMBURSEMENT FOR EXPENSES

 

The Executive shall be reimbursed for reasonable documented business expenses incurred in connection with the business of the Company in accordance with practices and policies established by the Company.

 

7. TERMINATION

 

(a) This Agreement shall terminate in accordance with the terms of Section 7(b) hereof; provided, however, that such termination shall not affect the obligations of the Executive pursuant to the terms of Sections 8 and 9.

 

(b) This Agreement shall terminate on the Expiration Date; or as follows:

 

(i) Upon the written notice to the Executive by the Company at any time, because of the willful and material malfeasance, dishonesty or habitual drug or alcohol abuse by the Executive related to or affecting the performance of his/her duties, the Executive's continuing and intentional breach, non-performance or non-observance of any of the terms or provisions of this Agreement, but only after notice by the Company of such breach, nonperformance or nonobservance and the failure of the Executive to cure such default as soon as practicable (but in any event within ten (10) days following written notice

from the Company), the conduct by the Executive which the Board in good faith determines could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business, assets, properties, results of operations, financial condition, personnel or prospects of the Company (within each category, taken as a whole), but only after notice by the Company of such conduct and the failure of the Executive to cure same as soon as practicable (but in any event within ten (10) days following written notice from the Company), or upon the Executive's conviction of a felony, any crime involving moral turpitude (including, without limitation, sexual harassment) related to or affecting the performance of his/her duties or any act of fraud, embezzlement, theft or willful breach of fiduciary duty against the Company.

 

(ii) In the event the Executive, by reason of physical or mental disability, shall be unable to perform the services required of his/her hereunder for a period of more than 60 consecutive days, or for more than a total of 90 non-consecutive days in the aggregate during any period of twelve (12) consecutive calendar months, on the 61st consecutive day, or the 91st day, as the case may be. The Executive agrees, in the event of any dispute under this Section 7(b) (ii), and after written notice by the Board, to submit to a physical examination by a licensed physician practicing in the South New York area selected by the Board, and reasonably acceptable to the Executive.

 

(iii) In the event the Executive dies while employed pursuant hereto, on the day in which his/her death occurs.

 

(c) If this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 7(b), the Company will have no further liability to the Executive after the date of termination including, without limitation, the compensation and benefits described herein; provided that, in the case of termination pursuant to Section 7(b) (ii), the Executive will receive his/her then current salary until such time (but not more than 90 days after such disability) as payments begin under any disability insurance plan of the Executive.

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(d) In the event the Company chooses not to enter into any agreement or amendment extending the Executive's employment beyond the Expiration Date, the Company agrees to provide Executive at least 60 days prior written notice of such determination (which notice may be given either prior to or after such Expiration Date, but if notice is given any later than 60 days prior to the Expiration Date, then the term of this Agreement shall be extended until the date which is 60 days after the date such notice is given), during which time the Executive may seek alternative employment while still being employed by the Company.

 

 

8. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

 

(a) The Executive covenants and agrees that she will not at any time during the continuance of this Agreement or at any time thereafter (i) print, publish, divulge or communicate to any person, firm, corporation or other business organization (except in connection with the Executive's employment hereunder) or use for his/her own account any secret or confidential information relating to the business of the Company (including, without limitation, information relating to any customers, suppliers, employees, products, services, formulae, technology, know-how, trade secrets or the like, financial information or plans) or any secret or confidential information relating to the affairs, dealings, projects and concerns of the Company, both past and planned (the "Confidential Information"), which the Executive has received or obtained or may receive or obtain during the course of his/her employment with the Company (whether or not developed, devised or otherwise created in whole or in part by the efforts of the Executive), or (ii) take with her, upon termination of his/her employment hereunder, any information in paper or document form or on any computer-readable media relating to the foregoing. The term "Confidential Information" does not include information which is or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of disclosure by the Executive or which is generally known in the medical claim processing and receivable financing business. The Executive further covenants and agrees that he shall retain the Confidential Information received or obtained during such service in trust for the sole benefit of the Company or its successors and assigns.

 

(b) The term Confidential Information as defined in Section 8(a) hereof shall include information obtained by the Company from any third party under an agreement including restrictions on disclosure known to the Executive.

 

(c) In the event that the Executive is requested pursuant to subpoena or other legal process to disclose any of the Confidential Information, the Executive will provide the Company with prompt notice so that the Company may seek a protective order or other appropriate remedy and/or waive compliance with Section 8 of this Agreement. In the event that such protective order or other remedy is not obtained or that the Company waives compliance with the provisions of Section 8 of this Agreement, the Executive will furnish only that portion of the Confidential Information which is legally required.

 

9. RESTRICTIONS DURING EMPLOYMENT AND FOLLOWING TERMINATION

 

(a) The Executive shall not, anywhere within the United States, during his/her full term of employment under Section 1 hereof and for a period of one (1) year thereafter, notwithstanding any earlier termination pursuant to Section 7(b) hereof, without the prior written consent of the Company, directly or indirectly, and whether as principal, agent, officer, director, partner, employee, consultant, broker, dealer or otherwise, alone or in association with any other person, firm, corporation or other business organization, carry on, or be engaged, have an interest in or take part in, or render services to any person, firm, corporation or other business organization (other than the Company) engaged in a business which is competitive with all or part of the Business of the Company. The term "Business of the Company" shall mean developing, providing and marketing technology and financial services that focus on products and services related to processing claims by medical professionals and service providers for insurance reimbursement and the financing of receivables due to them arising out of such claims.

 

(b) The Executive shall not, for a period of one (1) year after termination of his/her employment hereunder, either on his/her own behalf or on behalf of any other person, firm, corporation or other business organization, endeavor to entice away from the Company any person who, at any time during the continuance of this Agreement, was an employee of the Company.

 

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(c) The Executive shall not, for a period of one (1) year after termination of his/her employment hereunder, either on his/her own behalf or on behalf of any other person, firm, corporation or other business organization, solicit or direct others to solicit, any of the Company's customers or prospective customers (including, but not limited to, those customers or prospective customers with whom the Executive had a business relationship during his/her term of employment) for any purpose or for any activity which is competitive with all or part of the Business of the Company.

 

(d) It is understood by and between the parties hereto that the foregoing covenants by the Executive set forth in this Section 9 are essential elements of this Agreement and that, but for the agreement of the Executive to comply with such covenants, the Company would not have entered into this Agreement. It is recognized by the Executive that the Company currently operates in, and may continue to expand its operations throughout, the geographical territories referred to in Section 9(a) above. The Company and the Executive have independently consulted with his/her respective counsel and have been advised in all respects concerning the reasonableness and propriety of such covenants.

 

10. REMEDIES

 

(a) Without intending to limit the remedies available to the Company, it is mutually understood and agreed that the Executive's services are of a special, unique, unusual, extraordinary and intellectual character giving them a peculiar value, the loss of which may not be reasonably or adequately compensated in damages in an action at law, and, therefore, in the event of any material breach by the Executive that continues after any applicable cure period, the Company shall be entitled to equitable relief by way of injunction or otherwise.

 

(b) The covenants of Section 8 shall be construed as independent of any other provisions contained in this Agreement and shall be enforceable as aforesaid notwithstanding the existence of any claim or cause of action of the Executive against the Company, whether based on this Agreement or otherwise. In the event that any of the provisions of Sections 8 or 9 hereof should ever be adjudicated to exceed the time, geographic, product/service or other limitations permitted by applicable law in any jurisdiction, then such provisions shall be deemed reformed in any such jurisdiction to the maximum time, geographic, product/service or other limitations permitted by applicable law.

 

11. COMPLIANCE WITH OTHER AGREEMENTS

 

The Executive represents and warrants to the Company that the execution of this Agreement by himself/herself and his/her performance of his/her obligations hereunder will not, with or without the giving of notice or the passage of time or both, conflict with, result in the breach of any provision of or the termination of, or constitute a default under, any agreement to which the Executive is a party or by which the Executive is or may be bound.

 

12. WAIVERS

 

The waiver by the Company or the Executive of a breach of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall not operate or be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach.

 

13. BINDING EFFECT; BENEFITS

 

This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of, and shall be binding upon, the parties hereto and his/her respective successors, assigns, heirs and legal representatives, including any corporation or other business organization with which the Company may merge or consolidate or sell all or substantially all of its assets. Insofar as the Executive is concerned, this contract, being personal, cannot be assigned.

 

14. NOTICES

 

All notices and other communications which are required or may be given under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given when delivered to the person to whom such notice is to be given at his/her or its address set forth below, or such other address for the party as shall be specified by notice given pursuant hereto:

 

 

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(a) If to the Executive, to the address set forth in Exhibit A.

 

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(b) If to the Company, to it at:

 

Patient Access Solutions, Inc.

150 Motor Parkway- ste-401

Hauppauge, NY 11788

Attention: CEO/President

 

15. MISCELLANEOUS

 

(a) This Agreement contains the entire agreement between the parties hereto and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof. This Agreement may not be changed, modified, extended or terminated except upon written amendment approved by the Board and executed by a duly authorized officer of the Company.

 

(b) The Executive acknowledges that from time to time, the Company may establish, maintain and distribute employee manuals of handbooks or personnel policy manuals, and officers or other representatives of the Company may make written or oral statements relating to personnel policies and procedures. Such manuals, handbooks and statements are intended only for general guidance. No policies, procedures or statements of any nature by or on behalf of the Company (whether written or oral, and whether or not contained in any employee manual or handbook or personnel policy manual), and no acts or practices of any nature, shall be construed to modify this Agreement or to create express or implied obligations of any nature to the Executive.

 

(c) This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

 

(d) All questions pertaining to the validity, construction, execution and performance of this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict of law principles.

 

(e) Any controversy or claim arising from, out of or relating to this Agreement, or the breach hereof (other than controversies or claims arising from, out of or relating to the provisions in Sections 8, 9 and 10), shall be determined by final and binding arbitration in Suffolk County, New York, in accordance with the Employment Dispute Resolution Rules of the American Arbitration Association, by a panel of not less than three (3) arbitrators appointed by the American Arbitration Association. The decision of the arbitrators may be entered and enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction

by either the Company or the Executive.

 

The parties indicate his/her acceptance of the foregoing arbitration requirement by initialing below:

 

 

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For the Company                           Executive

 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the day and year first above written.

 

            Patient Access Solutions Inc.                         EXECUTIVE

By:      /s/ Bruce Weitzberg                                       By:

            ---------------------------------                                   ---------------------------------------

Name: Bruce Weitzberg                                            Name: Robert Linzalone

Title:    Chief Executive Officer

 

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EXHIBIT A TO THE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT,

DATED AS OFMAY 1, 2014, BETWEEN

THE COMPANY AND ROBERT LINZALONE (Executive)

 

A.   For Section 1:

 

The Expiration date referred to in Section 1 shall be MAY 1, 2019 (5 years).

 

B.   For Section 2:

 

The position of the Executive referred to in Section 2 shall be EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

 

C.   For Section 3(a):

 

The annual rate referred to in Section 3(a) shall be TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($ 220,000.00)

 

D.   For Section 3(b):

In addition to the compensation referred to in Section 3(a), the Company shall also pay to the executive, in respect of the 2008 fiscal year of the Company and by February 15, 2009, a cash bonus in an amount to be determined by the Board of up to 25% of his/her annual base salary based on the Executive meeting and exceeding mutually agreed upon performance goals for the Company or a division of the Company. The Executive shall be reimbursed $923.08a month for the business use of his/her personal car and up to $461.30 a month for the business use of his/her personal cell phone.

 

E.   For Section 5:

 

The length of vacation referred to in Section 5 shall be three (3) weeks.

 

F.   For Section 14:

 

The address of the Executive referred to in Section 14 shall be: 15 WHEATFIELD LANE, COMMACK, NY 11725

 

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Exhibit 6.3

 

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

 

AGREEMENT, dated as of May 1, 2014, (the "Commencement Date") between Patient Access Solutions, Inc., a New York corporation (referred to as the "Company"), and the Executive identified on Exhibit A attached hereto (the "Executive").

 

WITNESSETH:

 

WHEREAS, the Company desires to retain the services of the Executive and to that end desires to enter into a contract of employment, upon the terms and conditions herein set forth; and

 

WHEREAS, the Executive desires to be employed by the Company upon such terms and conditions;

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual benefits and covenants contained herein, the parties hereto, intending to be bound, hereby agree as follows:

 

1. APPOINTMENT AND TERM

 

Subject to the terms hereof, the Company hereby employs the Executive, and the Executive hereby accepts employment with the Company, all in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth herein, for a period commencing on the date hereof (the "Commencement Date") and ending on the date (the "Expiration Date") set forth in Exhibit A, unless the parties mutually agree in writing upon a later date.

 

2. DUTIES

 

(a) During the term of this Agreement, the Executive shall be employed in the position set forth in Exhibit A and shall, unless prevented by incapacity, devote all of his/her business time, attention and ability during normal corporate office business hours to the discharge of his/her duties hereunder and to the faithful and diligent performance of such duties and the exercise of such powers as may be assigned to or vested in his/her by the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board"), the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and any other senior executive officer of the Company, such duties to be consistent with his/her position. The Executive shall obey the lawful directions of the Board, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer and any other senior executive officer of the Company and shall use his/her diligent efforts to promote the interests of the Company and to maintain and promote the reputation thereof.

 

(b) The Executive shall not during the term of employment (except as a representative of the Company or with the consent in writing of the Board) be directly or indirectly engaged or concerned or interested in any other business activity, except through ownership of an interest of not more than 2% in any entity that does not compete with the Company, provided it does not impair the ability of the Executive to discharge fully and faithfully his/her duties hereunder.

 

(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the Executive shall be entitled to serve in various leadership capacities in civic, charitable and professional organizations. The Executive recognizes that his/her primary and paramount responsibility is to the Company.

 

(d) The Executive shall be based in the Hauppauge, New York, except for required travel on the Company's business.

 

3. REMUNERATION

 

(a) As compensation for the services pursuant hereto, the Executive shall be paid a base salary during employment hereunder at the annual rate set forth in Exhibit A. This amount shall be payable in equal periodic installments in accordance with the usual payroll practices of the Company.

 

(b) Except as provided above, in Exhibit A and in Sections 4 and 6 hereof, the Executive shall not be entitled to receive any additional compensation, remuneration or other payments from the Company.

 

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4. HEALTH INSURANCE AND OTHER FRINGE BENEFITS

 

The Executive shall be entitled to participate in regular employee fringe benefit programs, if applicable, to the extent such programs are offered by the Company to its executive employees, including, but not limited to, medical, hospitalization and disability insurance and life insurance, Section 529 education plan and 401(k) plan.

 

5. VACATION

 

The Executive shall be entitled to the number of weeks of vacation set forth in Exhibit A (in addition to the usual national holidays) during each contract year during which he serves hereunder. Such vacation shall be taken at such time or times as will be mutually agreed between the Executive and the

Company. Vacation not taken during a calendar year may not be carried forward.

 

6. REIMBURSEMENT FOR EXPENSES

 

The Executive shall be reimbursed for reasonable documented business expenses incurred in connection with the business of the Company in accordance with practices and policies established by the Company.

 

7. TERMINATION

 

(a) This Agreement shall terminate in accordance with the terms of Section 7(b) hereof; provided, however, that such termination shall not affect the obligations of the Executive pursuant to the terms of Sections 8 and 9.

 

(b) This Agreement shall terminate on the Expiration Date; or as follows:

 

(i) Upon the written notice to the Executive by the Company at any time, because of the willful and material malfeasance, dishonesty or habitual drug or alcohol abuse by the Executive related to or affecting the performance of his/her duties, the Executive's continuing and intentional breach, non-performance or non-observance of any of the terms or provisions of this Agreement, but only after notice by the Company of such breach, nonperformance or nonobservance and the failure of the Executive to cure such default as soon as practicable (but in any event within ten (10) days following written notice

from the Company), the conduct by the Executive which the Board in good faith determines could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business, assets, properties, results of operations, financial condition, personnel or prospects of the Company (within each category, taken as a whole), but only after notice by the Company of such conduct and the failure of the Executive to cure same as soon as practicable (but in any event within ten (10) days following written notice from the Company), or upon the Executive's conviction of a felony, any crime involving moral turpitude (including, without limitation, sexual harassment) related to or affecting the performance of his/her duties or any act of fraud, embezzlement, theft or willful breach of fiduciary duty against the Company.

 

(ii) In the event the Executive, by reason of physical or mental disability, shall be unable to perform the services required of his/her hereunder for a period of more than 60 consecutive days, or for more than a total of 90 non-consecutive days in the aggregate during any period of twelve (12) consecutive calendar months, on the 61st consecutive day, or the 91st day, as the case may be. The Executive agrees, in the event of any dispute under this Section 7(b) (ii), and after written notice by the Board, to submit to a physical examination by a licensed physician practicing in the South New York area selected by the Board, and reasonably acceptable to the Executive.

 

(iii) In the event the Executive dies while employed pursuant hereto, on the day in which his/her death occurs.

 

(c) If this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 7(b), the Company will have no further liability to the Executive after the date of termination including, without limitation, the compensation and benefits described herein; provided that, in the case of termination pursuant to Section 7(b) (ii), the Executive will receive his/her then current salary until such time (but not more than 90 days after such disability) as payments begin under any disability insurance plan of the Executive.

 

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(d) In the event the Company chooses not to enter into any agreement or amendment extending the Executive's employment beyond the Expiration Date, the Company agrees to provide Executive at least 60 days prior written notice of such determination (which notice may be given either prior to or after such Expiration Date, but if notice is given any later than 60 days prior to the Expiration Date, then the term of this Agreement shall be extended until the date which is 60 days after the date such notice is given), during which time the Executive may seek alternative employment while still being employed by the Company.

 

 

8. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

 

(a) The Executive covenants and agrees that she will not at any time during the continuance of this Agreement or at any time thereafter (i) print, publish, divulge or communicate to any person, firm, corporation or other business organization (except in connection with the Executive's employment hereunder) or use for his/her own account any secret or confidential information relating to the business of the Company (including, without limitation, information relating to any customers, suppliers, employees, products, services, formulae, technology, know-how, trade secrets or the like, financial information or plans) or any secret or confidential information relating to the affairs, dealings, projects and concerns of the Company, both past and planned (the "Confidential Information"), which the Executive has received or obtained or may receive or obtain during the course of his/her employment with the Company (whether or not developed, devised or otherwise created in whole or in part by the efforts of the Executive), or (ii) take with her, upon termination of his/her employment hereunder, any information in paper or document form or on any computer-readable media relating to the foregoing. The term "Confidential Information" does not include information which is or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of disclosure by the Executive or which is generally known in the medical claim processing and receivable financing business. The Executive further covenants and agrees that he shall retain the Confidential Information received or obtained during such service in trust for the sole benefit of the Company or its successors and assigns.

 

(b) The term Confidential Information as defined in Section 8(a) hereof shall include information obtained by the Company from any third party under an agreement including restrictions on disclosure known to the Executive.

 

(c) In the event that the Executive is requested pursuant to subpoena or other legal process to disclose any of the Confidential Information, the Executive will provide the Company with prompt notice so that the Company may seek a protective order or other appropriate remedy and/or waive compliance with Section 8 of this Agreement. In the event that such protective order or other remedy is not obtained or that the Company waives compliance with the provisions of Section 8 of this Agreement, the Executive will furnish only that portion of the Confidential Information which is legally required.

 

9. RESTRICTIONS DURING EMPLOYMENT AND FOLLOWING TERMINATION

 

(a) The Executive shall not, anywhere within the United States, during his/her full term of employment under Section 1 hereof and for a period of one (1) year thereafter, notwithstanding any earlier termination pursuant to Section 7(b) hereof, without the prior written consent of the Company, directly or indirectly, and whether as principal, agent, officer, director, partner, employee, consultant, broker, dealer or otherwise, alone or in association with any other person, firm, corporation or other business organization, carry on, or be engaged, have an interest in or take part in, or render services to any person, firm, corporation or other business organization (other than the Company) engaged in a business which is competitive with all or part of the Business of the Company. The term "Business of the Company" shall mean developing, providing and marketing technology and financial services that focus on products and services related to processing claims by medical professionals and service providers for insurance reimbursement and the financing of receivables due to them arising out of such claims.

 

(b) The Executive shall not, for a period of one (1) year after termination of his/her employment hereunder, either on his/her own behalf or on behalf of any other person, firm, corporation or other business organization, endeavor to entice away from the Company any person who, at any time during the continuance of this Agreement, was an employee of the Company.

 

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(c) The Executive shall not, for a period of one (1) year after termination of his/her employment hereunder, either on his/her own behalf or on behalf of any other person, firm, corporation or other business organization, solicit or direct others to solicit, any of the Company's customers or prospective customers (including, but not limited to, those customers or prospective customers with whom the Executive had a business relationship during his/her term of employment) for any purpose or for any activity which is competitive with all or part of the Business of the Company.

 

(d) It is understood by and between the parties hereto that the foregoing covenants by the Executive set forth in this Section 9 are essential elements of this Agreement and that, but for the agreement of the Executive to comply with such covenants, the Company would not have entered into this Agreement. It is recognized by the Executive that the Company currently operates in, and may continue to expand its operations throughout, the geographical territories referred to in Section 9(a) above. The Company and the Executive have independently consulted with his/her respective counsel and have been advised in all respects concerning the reasonableness and propriety of such covenants.

 

10. REMEDIES

 

(a) Without intending to limit the remedies available to the Company, it is mutually understood and agreed that the Executive's services are of a special, unique, unusual, extraordinary and intellectual character giving them a peculiar value, the loss of which may not be reasonably or adequately compensated in damages in an action at law, and, therefore, in the event of any material breach by the Executive that continues after any applicable cure period, the Company shall be entitled to equitable relief by way of injunction or otherwise.

 

(b) The covenants of Section 8 shall be construed as independent of any other provisions contained in this Agreement and shall be enforceable as aforesaid notwithstanding the existence of any claim or cause of action of the Executive against the Company, whether based on this Agreement or otherwise. In the event that any of the provisions of Sections 8 or 9 hereof should ever be adjudicated to exceed the time, geographic, product/service or other limitations permitted by applicable law in any jurisdiction, then such provisions shall be deemed reformed in any such jurisdiction to the maximum time, geographic, product/service or other limitations permitted by applicable law.

 

11. COMPLIANCE WITH OTHER AGREEMENTS

 

The Executive represents and warrants to the Company that the execution of this Agreement by himself/herself and his/her performance of his/her obligations hereunder will not, with or without the giving of notice or the passage of time or both, conflict with, result in the breach of any provision of or the termination of, or constitute a default under, any agreement to which the Executive is a party or by which the Executive is or may be bound.

 

12. WAIVERS

 

The waiver by the Company or the Executive of a breach of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall not operate or be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach.

 

13. BINDING EFFECT; BENEFITS

 

This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of, and shall be binding upon, the parties hereto and his/her respective successors, assigns, heirs and legal representatives, including any corporation or other business organization with which the Company may merge or consolidate or sell all or substantially all of its assets. Insofar as the Executive is concerned, this contract, being personal, cannot be assigned.

 

14. NOTICES

 

All notices and other communications which are required or may be given under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given when delivered to the person to whom such notice is to be given at his/her or its address set forth below, or such other address for the party as shall be specified by notice given pursuant hereto:

 

 

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(a) If to the Executive, to the address set forth in Exhibit A.

 

And

 

(b) If to the Company, to it at:

 

Patient Access Solutions, Inc.

245 Marcus Blvd.

Hauppauge, NY 11788

Attention: CEO/President

 

15. MISCELLANEOUS

 

(a) This Agreement contains the entire agreement between the parties hereto and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof. This Agreement may not be changed, modified, extended or terminated except upon written amendment approved by the Board and executed by a duly authorized officer of the Company.

 

(b) The Executive acknowledges that from time to time, the Company may establish, maintain and distribute employee manuals of handbooks or personnel policy manuals, and officers or other representatives of the Company may make written or oral statements relating to personnel policies and procedures. Such manuals, handbooks and statements are intended only for general guidance. No policies, procedures or statements of any nature by or on behalf of the Company (whether written or oral, and whether or not contained in any employee manual or handbook or personnel policy manual), and no acts or practices of any nature, shall be construed to modify this Agreement or to create express or implied obligations of any nature to the Executive.

 

(c) This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

 

(d) All questions pertaining to the validity, construction, execution and performance of this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict of law principles.

 

(e) Any controversy or claim arising from, out of or relating to this Agreement, or the breach hereof (other than controversies or claims arising from, out of or relating to the provisions in Sections 8, 9 and 10), shall be determined by final and binding arbitration in Suffolk County, New York, in accordance with the Employment Dispute Resolution Rules of the American Arbitration Association, by a panel of not less than three (3) arbitrators appointed by the American Arbitration Association. The decision of the arbitrators may be entered and enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction

by either the Company or the Executive.

 

The parties indicate his/her acceptance of the foregoing arbitration

requirement by initialing below:

 

 

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For the Company                          Executive

 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the day and year first above written.

 

            Patient Access Solutions Inc.                         EXECUTIVE

By:      /s/ Robert Linzalone                                       By:

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Name: Robert Linzalone                                             Name: Bruce Weitzberg

Title:    Executive Vice President

 

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EXHIBIT A TO THE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT,

DATED AS OFMAY 1, 2014, BETWEEN

THE COMPANY AND BRUCE WEITZBERG (Executive)

 

A. For Section 1:

 

The Expiration date referred to in Section 1 shall be MAY 1, 2019 (5 years).

 

B. For Section 2:

 

The position of the Executive referred to in Section 2 shall be CEO/PRESIDENT

 

C. For Section 3(a):

 

The annual rate referred to in Section 3(a) shall be TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($ 220,000.00)

 

D. For Section 3(b):

In addition to the compensation referred to in Section 3(a), the Company shall also pay to the executive, in respect of the 2008 fiscal year of the Company and by February 15, 2009, a cash bonus in an amount to be determined by the Board of up to 25% of his/her annual base salary based on the Executive meeting and exceeding mutually agreed upon performance goals for the Company or a division of the Company. The Executive shall be reimbursed $923.08a month for the business use of his/her personal car and up to $461.30 a month for the business use of his/her personal cell phone.

 

E. For Section 5:

 

The length of vacation referred to in Section 5 shall be three (3) weeks.

 

F. For Section 14:

 

The address of the Executive referred to in Section 14 shall be: 42 GARY ROAD, SYOSSET, NY 11791

 

 

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Exhibit 6.4