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		<title><![CDATA[OIG Slams Doctors for Using Unqualified Personnel]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/healthcare/1000970/oig-slams-doctors-for-using-unqualified-personnel/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Just when you thought youâ€™d heard everything about the poor quality of care in our absurdly overpriced health system, something else comes along. Today, it arrived in the form of a report from the HHS Office of The Inspector General OIG. This report observes that unqualified non-physicians perform many clinical...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:10:45 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gainsharing is Becoming More Respectable]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/healthcare/1000908/gainsharing-is-becoming-more-respectable/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, I wrote about the latest opinion on gainsharingâ€"the sharing of operational savings by hospitals with physicians--from HHSâ€™ Office of the Inspector General OIG. Although OIG had declared gainsharing illegal in July 1999, it told the hospital that had requested the advisory opinion that it could proceed with its...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:00:20 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Inspector General Won't Take on Hospitals Over On-Call Pay]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The HHS Office of the Inspector General OIG has approved an unnamed hospitalâ€™s petition to reimburse physicians for on-call duties in the emergency department, saying that the hospital payments would not violate the government's anti-kickback rules. But this is unlikely to have much impact on other hospitalsâ€™ payments to physicians...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 16:22:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Healthcare Roundup: Aetna Pink Slips, MCO Recession Forecast, OIG Investigations, and More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aetna pink slips -- Just after predicting that its earnings per share would grow 3 to 5 percent in 2009, Aetna announced it was going to lay off 1,000 of its employees, or about 3 percent of its workforce. Ronald A. Williams, chairman and CEO of Aetna, said the layoffs...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:03:54 -0800</pubDate>
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