May 16, 2017
Systemic Quality Fraud: Medicare Advantage Bilked by Carriers Gaming Billing Process. NYT Article on United Health Whistleblower
May 12, 2017
Fully one third of drugs approved by FDA pose serious and undisclosed risks. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/05/09/new-safety-risks-detected-in-one-third-of-fda-approved-drugs/?utm_term=.11879f59dfd4
Mortality
In one-quarter of the country, girls born today may live shorter lives than their mothers, and the country as a whole is falling behind other industrialized nations in the march toward longer life, according to a study just released by the Institute for Health Metrics. Life expectancy by county in the U.S. varies as much as […]
Law Day: The Fourteenth Amendment
President Eisenhower created Law Day in the United States for the first day of May. This year, the American Bar Association has chosen the theme of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution – the most cited and litigated provision in our Constitution. Passed in 1868 after the Civil War, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and the freeing […]
Law Day 2017 (May 1, 2017)
The 14th Amendment: Transforming American Democracy
April 28, 2017
Healthnet and Indiana University Settle $18M Quality Fraud Case
April 26, 2017
Treatment for severe bleeding following delivery. NIH Study
April 25, 2017
Today in Quality Fraud: Anthem, Express Scripts Split Over $3B Quality Fraud
April 24, 2017
More real wisdom from David Healy, M.D. Tweeting while Medicine Burns
April 21, 2017
Today in Quality Fraud: $40 Million California Medical Kickback Scheme. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-medical-kickbacks-charges-20170420-story.html