July 16, 2018
Hospital Sues Patients Over Bad Reviews
The Cost Of Quality Fraud
I am starting a series of posts and daily news finds on Data Breach, Quality Fraud and the reasons behind our tremendously expensive health care. Before starting that, I wanted to re-post an article I published a couple of years ago. The Radiology Regional data breach mentioned below was successfully resolved recently. The 21CO data […]
July 9, 2018
NEJM: The Opioid Crisis Worsens But Treatments Continue
June 28, 2018
You need to know about the growing use of artificial intelligence in medicine. USC Grading Surgeons Using AI “Precision Medicine” and AI NEJM: AI In Medical Decision Making
June 26, 2018
Dr. David Healy on the role and benefits of hard dissent. It applies to the law as well as medicine.
Stark and Quality Fraud
On my blog, I write a lot about #QualityFraud. What this concept means to me is the inflated cost of medicine and other health care costs passed on to consumers through concealment and deception of the quality of the services we are being provided. Unlike any other industrialized country, our health care sector is opaque […]
June 25, 2018
A trio of articles on lawyers organizing to battle family separation and “tender age detention centers” in America: Lawyer Moms of America LGG: Lawyers for Good Government ABA Asylum Project
Engle Fallout
In 2006, the Florida Supreme Court decertified the class action of smokers against the tobacco industry, ruling that cases could be tried individually but laying down certain rules by which those cases would be tried. Engle v. Liggett Group, Inc., 945 S0. 2d 1246 (Fla. 2006). Decertification can happen when the Court determines that the […]
June 7, 2018
Two in three Americans stressed over cost of health care. The poll includes responses from more than 3,400 respondents over age 18. “Given the uncertain fate of our nation’s healthcare system, it is not surprising that the majority of those adults surveyed expressed concerns about access to healthcare and costs,” APA CEO Arthur Evans Jr., […]
June 6, 2018
Lee Health profits “down”. Interesting question: How does a non-profit suffer a 25% drop in profit and still earn a 3% profit (according to its own numbers) “Ben Spence, the organization’s chief financial officer, said Lee Health will likely see an operating margin (or profit) of 2.9 percent by the end of the budget year on Sept. 30, […]