June 14, 2017
From all day mediation in Sanibel to LAX. We’re busy.
From all day mediation in Sanibel to LAX. We’re busy.
Recent hospital ratings and comparative measurements from JAMA. Associations Between Hospital Characteristics, Measure Reporting, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings
On a topic we have been covering with reference to our data breach class action cases, The Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force finds lax compliance. REPORT ON IMPROVING CYBERSECURITY IN THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY
Today in Quality Fraud: Endoscope Maker, Olympus, settles for harms caused by gynecologic surgical tool that spreads cancer cells – following a 2016 $646M criminal/civil settlement with the Feds over a bribery and kickback scheme. 2016 Federal Criminal Bribery and Kickback Settlement by Olympus
The real, actual Death Panels operating currently. When Insurers Require Patients to Stop Treatment – CNN
This is the third in our blog series on obtaining and using confidential peer review records in litigation. In Overdose (No. 1), I reviewed JCAHO Hospital Root Cause Analysis and Sentinel Event Reporting. In Overdose (No. 2), I reviewed Hospital adverse medical incident reports, including Code 15 reports on nursing negligence submitted in Florida to the […]
Meetings.
Depositions
Today in Quality Fraud: eClinicalWorks $155 Million Fraud Settlement with Feds