June 27, 2017
CBO Report on Senate Bill: 22M Lose Insurance
June 21, 2017
Treatment of chronic pain following an acute trauma in JAMA.
The Other Escobar
On this blog, I focus on what most of my clients have in common – the need for serious medical care and the attendant expenses. I often blog about Quality Fraud and share news items about how the cost of healthcare is driven by misrepresentations made in the course of providing care. Unlike other markets, […]
June 19, 2017
NEJM: Controlling the Cost of Medicaid
June 9, 2017
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
June 8, 2017
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
June 7, 2017
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
June 6, 2017
The real, actual Death Panels operating currently. When Insurers Require Patients to Stop Treatment – CNN
Overdose (No. 3)
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 […]
Overdose (No. 2)
In my last Weekly Blog, I reviewed an Accreditation Decision Report I secured from internal Hospital and JCAHO investigations of a fatal overdose. These reports are usually confidential and contain information not available in other sources. That kind of sensitive information is rarely available but can be critical to a successful outcome in medical malpractice […]