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Personal responsibility. HHS' OIG ready to punish execs, if necessary.

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Author/s: Blesch, Gregg (G);

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Publication Type: News

Journal: Modern healthcare (Mod Healthc), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2007-Sep; vol 37 (issue 35) : pp 22

Dates: Created 2007/10/25; Completed 2007/11/29;

PMID: 17957894, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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Fraud - legislation & jurisprudence Health Facility Administrators - economics; legislation & jurisprudence Law Enforcement - methods Liability, Legal - economics

Medicaid - organization & administration Medicare - organization & administration United States United States Dept. of Health and Human Services

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