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   "text": "Corporate Integrity Agreements are a hybrid instrument: they are compliance programs funded by health care companies but administratively enforced by the government, that is, contracts between health care companies and the federal government carrying costly mandatory compliance measures and penalties.",
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   "text": "Existing corporate criminal liability combined with the absence of clear Department of Justice standards for charging businesses can push organizations to adopt unproven compliance programs and generate other inefficiencies.",
   "abstract": "The existing corporate criminal liability in combination with a lack of clear DOJ standards for charging businesses may also lead organizations to adopt unproven compliance programs and create other inefficiencies.",
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   "text": "Waiver of rights provisions are the most prevalent governance term in the sample, appearing in 96 percent of agreements, followed by cooperation with the government at 91 percent and improved compliance programs at 75 percent.",
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   "text": "Although 45 percent of sampled agreements required improved communication and training, only 11 percent required the entity to create the position of chief compliance officer, so the most structural compliance remedy is the rarest.",
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   "text": "Generic industry advice on building an effective compliance program cannot work in practice because it is written to apply to many firms at once while no two companies are sufficiently alike for general guidance to be effective.",
   "abstract": "is necessarily mostly general because the advice is meant to apply to a multitude of companies. However, in practice, no two companies are sufficiently alike to effectively provide general guidance on compliance programs.",
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