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People who are connected to a requester or a provider are defined in the legislation and include, for example, family members, business associates and related corporate entities. The legislation also requires requesters and providers to report cases where any person (regardless of whether they are a requester, a provider or a person connected to one of these) asks for, accepts, offers or provides a non-permitted benefit, or makes threats, if there is an intention that in doing so the requester will request (or be induced to request) services from a particular provider. This would capture the situation where, for example, a friend of a provider makes a payment to a requester intending that the payment would induce the requester to request services from a provider; Are there any circumstances in which a transaction at market value would not be a permitted benefit? A transaction will not be a permitted benefit if it is related to the number, kind or value of pathology or diagnostic imagin
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