Posted by Admin | 9:26 AM

Reports of legal settlements by big health care organizations tend to dribble out towards the end of the year, maybe in a rush to finalize t...

Labels: bribery, crime, deception, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, kickbacks, marketing, obstruction of justice, Orthofix, Sanofi-Aventis

Posted by Admin | 2:28 PM

On this US election day, we seem to be in a mini-squall of cases involving unethical, deceptive, and now very colorful marketing practices u...

Labels: bribery, conflicts of interest, corporate integrity agreements, crime, fraud, kickbacks, legal settlements, whistle-blowers

Posted by Admin | 11:16 AM

In 2009, I first posted about the amazingly colorful leadership and governance problems at a small hospital system in Massachusetts.  Backg...

Labels: bribery, crime, executive compensation, golden parachutes, Northeast Health System, perverse incentives

Posted by Admin | 10:32 AM

Quelle surprise.  Giant international pharmaceutical company Pfizer managed to go for nearly 10 months without announcing a major legal sett...

Labels: bribery, crime, deferred prosecution agreement, health care corruption, kickbacks, legal settlements, Pfizer

Posted by Admin | 12:00 PM

More justifications of physicians' and other health care professionals' financial arrangements with industry have been appearing in ...

Labels: Biomet, bribery, conflicts of interest, deferred prosecution agreement, health care corruption, Johnson and Johnson, legal settlements, Smith and Nephew

Posted by Admin | 9:18 AM

It remains fashionable in academic medicine to tolerate, if not celebrate conflicts of interest as necessary to support the "collaborat...

Labels: academic medical centers, boards of trustees, bribery, conflicts of interest, golden parachutes, imperial CEO, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, You heard it here first