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Can Hospitals Share Cost Savings With Their Oncologists?

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) has recently issued a remarkable series of six inter-related advisory opinions that give more favorable treatment to gainsharing arrangements between physicians and hospitals. In health care, gainsharing is an arrangement by which a hospital gives physicians a share of any reduction in the hospital's costs for patient care attributable in part to the physician's efforts. A gainsharing program typically involves a sharing of the cost savings achieved by the hospital through some combination of a percentage payment, an hourly fee, or a fixed fee to the physician, . . . [Click for More]

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