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Monday, April 30, 2012

The 2011 Best Paid US CEO's Company's Latest Legal Settlement

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Yet another legal settlement illustrates the contrast between rewards given to the hired managers of large health organizations and their or...
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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Insurers' diversification creating monopoly power and conflict of interest - quoted in the Washington Post

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I am quoted in a Washington Post article today on potential conflicts of interest when medical payers/insurers acquire the firms that hospit...
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Using a computer called “Blue Balls” to track whether ED patients seeking care paid their bills

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I could not make this up if I tried regarding hardball tactics to collect money when patients are at their most vulnerable. From Bloomberg...
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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Don't Worry, Your Records are Safe - Part IV

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At past posts " Don't Worry, Your Electronic Medical Records Are Getting Safer With Every Passing Day ", " Another Episod...
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Friday, April 27, 2012

Another Legal Settlement for Tenet, Another $10 Million Plus for its CEO

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Yet another large health care organization has added to its collection of legal settlements.  Reuters briefly noted Tenet Healthcare'...
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Allscripts shares plunge on weak outlook, board changes, unhappy customers - but mostly unhappy customers, I surmise

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Glen Tullman is CEO of the health IT seller Allscripts-Misys Healthcare.  He was an advisor to the Obama campaign on health information t...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Some of WellPoint's Owners (Stockholders) Allege Their Hired Executives Hid Political Contributions

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We have frequently had reason to question the actions of WellPoint, the second largest for-profit health insurance company/ managed care org...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

The Spoils of a "Scorched-Earth Defense" - Merck CEO Got $13.3 Million in 2011

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Last week, Bloomberg reminded us of the legal baggage that pharmaceutical giant Merck is carrying. The company had announced yet another se...

Perednia: "Starting Over With Healthcare Reform Is, Unfortunately, a Matter of Religion"

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Over at "The Road to Hellth" blog, Douglas Perednia MD has written an excellent piece entitled " Starting Over With Healthcar...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Forbes: Obamacare Billionaire: What One Entrepreneur's Rise Says About The Future Of Medicine

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An article in Forbes appeared today (4/18/12) entitled " Obamacare Billionaire: What One Entrepreneur's Rise Says About The Future ...
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How the Anechoic Effect May Be Generated - The Chairman of a Hospital Board Buys a Newspaper

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We have often noted that stories about problems with the leadership and governance of health care tend to be anechoic . That is, they tend t...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Will the UC-Davis Chancellor be Held Accountable for "Systemic and Repeated Failures?"

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During the brief Occupy Wall Street etc campaign last year, the pepper spraying of unarmed protesters on the University of California - Davi...
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Friday, April 13, 2012

Once More with Feeling - Johnson and Johnson Found Guilty, Fined $1.1 Billion

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The latest legal black eye for giant pharmaceutical and device company Johnson and Johnson appeared in an Arkansas court room.  As documente...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Health Care Dysfunction Explained by the Fallacy of "Maximizing Shareholder Value"

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Over the last two weeks, the Naked Capitalism blog ran a multi-part series (1-4) on what has gone wrong with US public for-profit corporati...