July 11, 2010
Pain Clinics Close After CEO Accused of #QualityFraud
July 10, 2018
Delray Beach Joins Suit Against Big Pharma Over Opioid Crisis
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 […]
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 15, 2018
#QualityFraud: Theranos Founder and CEO Charged With Massive Fraud
June 1, 2018
Unintended Consequences of Pharma-Created Opioid Crisis: He hugged her for a long moment, outside the bathroom with the missing door, head full of anxiety. He knew what awaited him on the other side of the drive. Another impossibly difficult conversation with his provider, who, scared by the rising number of opioid prescribers facing criminal prosecution, […]
May 23, 2018
BMJ: United States’ FDA providing insufficient information on post-approval drug effectiveness.
May 8, 2018
When Insurance Interferes In Your Good Care “Last September, Kathy Halamka received a letter from her health insurance company stating that it was discontinuing coverage for her ongoing cancer care because the payer had come across research published 27 years ago suggesting that a different, less expensive treatment was better. The insurer took this action […]
May 3, 2018
#QualityFraud WaPo: Rare Disease Jackpot for Healthcare Industry and Pharma
May 2, 2018
WaPo: A Genuine Solution To Our Healthcare Problem