Any changes that Wal-Mart makes to its hiring and buying practices garner lots of attention because of the company's massive size.
It's illegal under federal law to pay doctors directly for referrals or to refer to a clinic in which a doctor has a financial stake, so Dosoretz has been busy buying practices outright, which is fine by regulators as long as he does not overpay.
Many prudent small business employers manage this risk by buying Employment Practices Liability (EPL) Insurance, which can cover legal fees and liability for employment claims.
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Since buying up practices has historically led to increased prices, payers (private and public) have a strong desire to not have all practices get gobbled up by large enterprises.
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For example, John Lynn, a leading healthcare journalist, speculated on how the recent ruling could give health systems an alternative to the expensive practice of buying medical practices to buy loyalty.
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Yet hospitals aren't buying doctors' practices because they want to reform the delivery of medical care.
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Hospitals including UPMC Presbyterian have tried to provide basic care by buying up physician practices and opening neighborhood clinics.
Therefore, fuel buyers that rely on manual processes, spreadsheets, and sub-standard industry practices risk buying a load of fuel on the high end of a price swing every other day.
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Practices such as buying shares in each other will also be checked for regulatory breaches.
So I call on the Congress to pass legislation that bans unethical practices such as the buying, selling, patenting, or cloning of human life.
His allies include several old-fashioned caudillos, and his opponents say (though he denies) that he has engaged in old-fashioned practices, such as buying favourable television coverage (see article).
Doctors were told that in addition to buying regular disability insurance, their practices could pump--pretax--up to 100% of their excess earnings into a supplemental disability plan offered by the Doctors Benefit Insurance Co.
But critics weren't buying, contending that the retailer could potentially use predatory lending practices, particularly with low-income customers.
Bruce Feinberg runs Georgia Cancer Specialists in Atlanta, Georgia, one of the five largest cancer practices in the U.S. He stopped buying Aranesp from Amgen a year ago in response to the company's decision to tie Neulasta rebates to Aranesp purchases.
The other will reflect the practices of art-market professionals, amassing a war chest for opportunistic buying.
Suitable bureaucratic regulations could put an end to pernicious practices such as players selling their skills to the highest bidder, or managers buying the best players in order to make their businesses more successful.
This has led to the biggest change in marketing practices in the last 40 years: a shift toward rational, computational, and algorithmic media buying.
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