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Archive > August, 2008 Vol. IX, No. 8

Business Advisor

Is There a Thief on Your Payroll?

Annamarie Carey-York, MBA

We learned the hard way that surgery centers often don't have the same financial controls that larger companies do. In three successive months last year, we had brushes with fiscal impropriety at three of the centers I help manage.

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