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Specialists bear special burdens when health systems administer risk contracts: information risk, market share risk and financial risk. How specialists need to position themselves in anticipation of these burdens.

Federal Fraud and Abuse Control Program, revisions to current sanctions and to criminal law, civil monetary penalties and amendment to the anti-kickback statute.

Key features of Office of Inspector General audits, including OIG’s new voluntary audits. Offers interpretations of: physical presence of teaching physician, documentation, undercoding and penalties.

Physician unions will erode physicians' greatest asset: the relationship they have with their patients, argues James Unland, acting executive director of Millennium Physician Organization.

Watershed progress in curbing tobacco sales to minors in Philadelphia.

Personal liability risks that physicians in nonprofit health care organizations have to avoid or face penalties for "excess benefit transactions" under the recently passed Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights II.

A strategic look at office layout: what your office should have—and what it should avoid.

A critical look at medical liability reform "progress" from a litigator’s perspective reveals a potential raw deal.

A handy summary of what has happened, what is affected and how other state agencies have said they will respond.

Coordinating cancer treatment protocols across a hospital network is a demanding task. See how it can be made more manageable using the World Wide Web.