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August 14, 2018

Bill Thompson Aug 14, 2018 Access, Daily, Ethics, Evidence, Government, Government Health Care, Health, Hospitals, Insurance, Investigation, Law, Medical Error, Patient Bill of Rights, Quality Fraud, Science, Statistics Comments Off

CMS Continues To Abandon Its Mission; Drops Public Reporting of Hospital Infections. #QualityFraud

August 10, 2018

Bill Thompson Aug 10, 2018 Access, Daily, Government, Health, Hospitals, Insurance, Medical Error, Quality Fraud, Statistics Comments Off

Following our weekly blog post, NEJM publishes a story on the political attacks on our healthcare system.

The New Institute of Medicine Guidelines

Bill Thompson Aug 9, 2018 Access, Daily, Health, Hospitals, Medical Error, Medical Literature, Medical Malpractice, Negligence, News, Peer Review, Statistics Comments Off

JAMA: Clinical Guidelines from JAMA

July 25, 2018

Bill Thompson Jul 25, 2018 Class Action, Daily, Data Breach, Hospitals, Insurance Companies, Law, Medical Error, Medical Records, Patient Bill of Rights, Quality Fraud, Statistics Comments Off

3 Major HIPPA Fines In 2018 So Far

Our Healthcare System Is Getting Worse, Not Better

Bill Thompson Jul 16, 2018 Florida, Government, Health, Hospitals, Insurance Companies, Law, Quality Fraud, Statistics, Weekly Comments Off

My blogs about Quality Fraud pick up items like the $54,000 Air Ambulance Ride and the $6,000 ER Visit Without Treatment. For thirty years, our healthcare delivery systems have been changing dramatically and repeatedly. These changes were caused by two primary factors: the market and the law. In some instances, market changes caused a reaction by the Legislature. […]

Stark and Quality Fraud

Bill Thompson Jun 25, 2018 Access, Ethics, Government, Health, Hospitals, Insurance, Insurance Companies, Medical Error, Medical Literature, Medical Malpractice, Medical Records, Nursing Home, Peer Review, Pharma, Quality Fraud, Statistics, Weekly Comments Off

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 […]

May 23, 2018

Bill Thompson May 29, 2018 Class Action, Daily, Government, Health, Pharma, Products, Quality Fraud, Science, Statistics Comments Off

BMJ: United States’ FDA providing insufficient information on post-approval drug effectiveness.

April 20, 2018

Bill Thompson Apr 24, 2018 Access, Courts, Daily, Ethics, Health, Hospitals, Insurance, Insurance Companies, Law, Medical Error, Medical Malpractice, Negligence, Nursing Home, Personal Injury Trial Lawyer, Pharma, Quality Fraud, Statistics Comments Off

Florida Medical Rights Association: a new resource to find out about legal and medical rights for those concerned about our healthcare delivery system.