CLAWBACK, AMERICAN STYLE

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Volume 59, No. 3 March 2003

CLAWBACK, AMERICAN STYLE

In grade school, we called it "Indian giving."

In Europe, the U.K., and outposts of the erstwhile British Empire, it is called a "clawback." When government promises more than it can deliver, or makes an error in calculation, it simply takes the largesse back from the beneficiaries, be they retirees, provincial taxpayers, recipients of the Australian Baby Bonus, or Atlantic fishermen. If there is excessive demand for their services, Canadian physicians are expected to work without pay. Ontario physicians can have thousands of dollars in fees clawed back for "not doing enough paperwork to justify billing"; if they appeal and lose, they must pay the cost of the audit and the appeal (Saturday Sun 11/16/02).

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