Well, you’ll do it your way and I’ll do it my way, And we’ll see who’s the one to survive. You’ll find that with no foundation Or qualifications There’s no way that you can get by, No, there’s no way you can get by. The Kinks, The Hard Way I can remember the first time […]
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. […]
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 […]
Well Papa go to bed now, it’s getting late Nothing we can say can change anything now Because there’s just different people coming down here now and they see things in different ways And soon everything we’ve known will just be swept away Bruce Springsteen, Independence Day Facebook flagged the Declaration of Independence as Hate […]
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 […]
“It was like fractured pieces trying to converge — their experience today, my history — being in this place where I had been as a child,” Ina said. I had the good fortune of growing up in South Florida in the seventies, a prehistoric era of AOR radio before the internet – when video games […]
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 […]
Privileges should be narrowly construed; exceptions to the demand for every man’s evidence are not lightly created nor expansively construed, for they are in derogation of the search for truth. Espy a/k/a In Re Sealed Case, 121 F. 3d 729 (USCA DC 1997) In 1994, allegations of corruption swirled around the Secretary of the US Department of […]
Beautiful senses are gone Canary in a gilded cage Singin Queens of the Stone Age, A Song For The Deaf Last week, a friend sent me an article about a recent Supreme Court case involving what constitutes a “medical malpractice case” and asked what I thought about it. Unfortunately for him, I had a lot […]
There’ll be no more heroes They’ll be reduced to zero When that rough god goes riding Riding on in Van Morrison I got an email the other day that started with the greeting “Motherfucker!”. It wasn’t meant to be a friendly slap on the back – it was more of a threat. And it came […]
