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Unlicensed Cosmetic Surgery Hospitalizes 6 in N.J.

New Jersey medical authorities are investigating the incidence of and issuing alerts on unlicensed cosmetic surgery providers after 6 women suffered...

Rotator Cuff Repair Restores Strength, Not Function

Rotator cuff surgery may restore a patient's normal shoulder strength, but mobility issues persist in the repaired joint, according to researchers a...

Do Patients Expect Too Much From Joint Replacement?

Even with a thorough pre-op education program, more than two-thirds of joint replacement patients don't share the expectations that their surgeons d...

Archive > July, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 7
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OIG frowns on common hospital-physician joint venture

Anti-Kickback Statute
OIG Frowns on Common Hospital-Physician Joint Venture
A fairly common ASC transaction may run afoul of the federal Anti-kickback Statute, says the OIG in an advisory opinion published last month. We asked Mark Manigan, a healthcare lawyer with WolfBlock Brach Eichler in Roseland, N.J., to interpret the advisory opinion.

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