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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...

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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 > November, 2008 Vol. IX, No. 11
Legal Update
Safety Outside of the Safe Harbor
Jerry Sokol; and Joshua Kaye, JD.

Is the Office of Inspector General interested in promoting, rather than restricting, the development of physician-hospital ambulatory surgery centers? OIG Advisory Opinion 08-08 certainly suggests so — as long as physicians adopt appropriate protections against fraud and abuse.

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