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You have to wonder about this case as yes it is unfortunate the woman died and the article states he had not performed surgery in over 5 years, so one has to ask, why now? Was this driven by economic times as an MD who needed the money? Is 85 too old to be performing surgeries? Retired...
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Wed, Feb 16 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Lawsuit, Plastic Surgery, Patient, California, Heatlhcare, Orange County, Medical License, Economics, Money, surgeon
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In case you have not seen this in the news, a huge amount of patient data records were stolen from a transport vehicle when left unlocked and unattended. The actual theft goes back to December 23rd of 2010. All victims, to include staff and workers have been notified and will be given the...
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Tue, Feb 15 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Hospital, Medical Records, Lawsuit, Security, Data Breach, New York, theft, medical records DOD, credit services
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The doctor and his wife are both researchers and have written and published 8 scientific articles about PROPOXYPHENE since 1993. He feels that the drug has killed more people than any other drug in history. The drug was invented by Eli Lilly in 1953. Darvon is an opiate and in...
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Mon, Feb 7 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, Lawsuit, FDA, Blood Tests, narcotics, Darvocet, Darvon, propoxyphene, Xanodyne Pharma, Europe CE, autopsy, Jonasson, Sweden
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The lawsuit has to do with the provisions of ERISA which is the grounds for the insurance carrier demanding the providers repay what they were given. Here’s a good example of “audit algorithms” and how they are used to get money. The law suit states they are in violation of ERISA and that...
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Fri, Feb 4 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, Lawsuit, ERISA, Doctors, Algorithms, audit, healthcare reform, HealthNet, payments, revenue, United HealthGroup
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We have now moved beyond “meaningful use” and in this case are looking at “meaningful money” of sorts. This is a type of decision that many healthcare companies look at today,do we keep adding on or do we rip out and start from scratch, and money is the top influencer in this case for sure. ...
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Fri, Jan 28 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Computers, healthcare, Medical Records, Lawsuit, Health IT, Security, Epic, Data, Algorithms, virus, consultants, Methodist Hospitals, Meditch
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This is the biggest filing to create nothing more than a huge distraction and source of disruption that I have seen this year. Again, like so many other items we see in the news today, with the general consumer having no idea how data and mathematics works, this is yet just one more exploit. ...
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Tue, Jan 25 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, medicare, Lawsuit, HHS, AMA, Doctors, Algorithms, Media, American Medical Association, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones
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Among the issued cited by the federal government were the accusations that the city ignored rules requiring recommendations from doctors, nurses and social workers before patients could be enrolled in the home care programs. On other occasions the doctor recommendations were ignored. When you look...
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Well I guess California is not the only state to enjoy this wonderful area of question here and its worth a look by all means as contracts and custom and standard rates do vary. Sometimes the policy is not always clear on what is covered and what is not, plus additional items could be added in...
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Tue, Jan 11 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, health insurance, Lawsuit, Medical Claims, Balance Billing, Patients, healthcare reform, Ingenx
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According to the article over a million dollars a year is spent going after other smaller charities that use the words “for the cure” in their name. I think this is pretty pointless to when a trademark becomes a focus point for charitable organization. I have a link on the Medical Quack to...
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Wed, Jan 5 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Lawsuit, Cancer, Breast Cancer, Lawsuits, Philanthropy, Lung Cancer, fundraising, Susan G. Komen, Cancer Prevention, Huffington Post Komen, Komen, Breast Cancer Charities, Breast Cancer Research
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Here’s a report on a patient that is looking at her 4th hip implant and a bit of history on the investigation as far as to how the implant was approved and if the failures should have been brought to light sooner. As timing would have it, Kaiser Permanente put out a press release today about their “registry...
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Wed, Dec 1 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Surgery, infection, Medical Devices, Lawsuit, FDA, Johnson and Johnson, Recalls, Pain, orthopedic surgeon, Depuy, hip, replacement surgery, Journal of Athroplasty, ceramic, hip implant, metal to metal
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Amphastar Pharmaceuticals filed a lawsuit against the FDA in this area that goes back to the block on imports of heparin, and thus was not able to bring a generic equivalent to market. Momenta Pharmaceuticals donated time and effort to help the FDA and thus won first approval. We all remember...
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Sun, Nov 14 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, heparin, Lawsuit, FDA, China, Congress Pharma, phamaceutical plant inspections, FDA funding, General Accounting Office, Momenta
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We have been reading about acquisitions and now it appears Ingenix (a wholly owned subsidiary of United Healthcare) is selling one arm of their software/analysis resources to a company that has business in the same area. This business would be related to settling medical claims as a result of auto...
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Mon, Oct 25 2010
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Filed under: Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Lawsuit, data bases, Mergers and Acquisitions, Ingenix, Chiropractor, breach of contract, corrupt data base, class action, Mitchell
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If you need an update you the link below is from a prior post and below is the press release from the City of Hope. As mentioned before, many were watching this case as it stands to potentially create a precedence in California with physicians groups and their relations with hospitals. In...
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Sun, Oct 24 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Lawsuit, Cancer, CMA, Hospitals, Doctors, Employment, reserach and development, for profit foundation, City of Hope, California Medical Assocation, for profit. hospital
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This is interesting when you see who the majority owners are here with the investors listed, Goldman and Blackstone and the lawsuit contends they knew upfront of the scheme . The company has fined Healthmarkets but it makes you wonder where fines and regulation come together? Do we just keep...
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Thu, Oct 21 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Lawsuit, Heatlh Insurance, healthcare reform, Goldman Sachs, HealthMarkets, junk insurance, Blackstone
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If you missed the original recall notice you can use the link below for more information. I can understand a partial release of information, in other words to verify that the named patient did receive an implant. I don’t however see the reason for paying the doctors for this information as...
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Sun, Oct 17 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Surgery, infection, Medical Devices, Lawsuit, FDA, Johnson and Johnson, Recalls, Pain, orthopedic surgeon, Depuy, hip, replacement surgery, Journal of Athroplasty, ceramic, hip implant, metal to metal