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 […]
June 1, 2017
Today in Quality Fraud: eClinicalWorks $155 Million Fraud Settlement with Feds
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 […]
May 30, 2017
Medical Loss Ratios (MLR’s) are designed to lower healthcare costs. Here is how they work. In a recent Federal Court ruling, a Court found that physician settlement payments may be included in the MLR for the carrier. CMS Page on Medical Loss Rule (MLR)
May 26, 2017
CBO Estimate on House Healthcare Bill Report on Numbers in CBO Report on AHCA
May 25, 2017
$33M J&J Settlement with State Attorneys Over Drug Fraud
Overdose
On April 4, 1997, Charles Blair wrote a letter for the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Hospitals Organization (JCAHO) to a Hospital Administrator. The JCAHO letter describes a “sentinel event” that occurred in March, during which a patient died in the Hospital Recovery Room from an overdose of concentrated medicine given by her healthcare providers […]
The Cost of Care
Dartmouth study on reigning in healthcare costs This chart on the left (in the article linked above) was originally created by the Kaiser Foundation and is now outdated (as shown in the chart on the right) – largely because the cost of drugs, medical devices and hospitalizations has skyrocketed. As a percentage, the amount we spend on primary […]
May 18, 2017
It’s Not Just Profit Wrecking America’s Healthcare System Dartmouth University Researchers recommend following the money to capture efficiencies.