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Article: Prosecution threat wins hospitals over.(Business Report)
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- The Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- January 15, 2008
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BYLINE: Mzwandile Jacks|Johannesburg
The threat of prosecution at a high-powered meeting with health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang forced private hospital groups to commit to reconsidering their annual tariff increases last Friday.
The health department warned hospital groups to comply with the law when charging for anaesthetic gases, or face prosecution.
The warning was made at a meeting also attended by the country's health MECs, policy makers and 22 chief executives from private hospital groups, to discuss private hospitals' tariff increases for this year.
Before the meeting, the hospital groups had been adamant that contractual ...