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Healthcare business managers and financial leaders are champing at the gainsharing bit now that the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) released several favorable gainsharing advisory opinions. Still, experts advise hospitals to proceed with caution. Gainsharing agreements are ripe for anti-kickback statute violations if done incorrectly.