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Archive > December, 2008 Vol. IX, No. 12

Legal Update

The Straight Scoop on Economic Credentialing

Kathy Poppitt, JD

Economic credentialing may put the physicians who do cases at your facility — as well as those whose cases you seek to attract to your ORs — in an uncomfortable or even an untenable position. Here's what you and they may be up against.

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