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Another Attempt to Show the RUC Behind the Curtain
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1:17 PM
In 2007, readers of the Annals of Internal Medicine could read part of the solution to a great medical mystery.(1) For years, health care c...
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anechoic effect
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Medicare
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perverse incentives
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regulatory capture
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reimbursement
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RUC
The "King of Pain" Recants - Pharmaceutical Paid Key Opinion Leader Admits It Was All "Misinformation"
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9:11 AM
This may be a first. A Wall Street Journal story announced that the "key opinion leader" who played a pivotal role in the promot...
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conflicts of interest
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Endo Health Solutions
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evidence-based medicine
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guidelines
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JCAHO
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key opinion leaders
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narcotics
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Purdue Pharma
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regulatory capture
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stealth marketing
Is the Meaningful Use Stage 2 Final Rule invalid?
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9:58 AM
Here are a few reasonable questions I decided to elevate as a post of its own. In the face of the discovery of industry influence over comme...
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ghost writing
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ghostwriting
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meaningful use final rule
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meaningful use stage 2
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ONC
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regulatory capture
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stealth lobbying
Old Mystery Solved? Former FDA Reviewer Speaks Out About Intimidation, Retaliation and Marginalizing of Safety
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4:16 PM
At my Dec. 2005 post " Report: Life Science Manufacturers Adapt to Industry Transition " I wrote: ... The recognition of a gap in ...
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CDER
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FDA
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regulatory capture
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retalation
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whistle-blowers
The Revolving Door's Bearings Overheat - Two Examples of the Health Care Insiders Who Keep it Spinning
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1:18 PM
Two recent stories illustrate a kind of conflict of interest affecting government health care policy. Note that neither story appeared in an...
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Amerigroup
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Health Care Reform
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regulatory capture
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revolving doors
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UnitedHealth
Head of Lobbying Firm with Health Care Clients Walks Through Revolving Door into Executive Branch
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12:08 PM
A Washington Post op-ed described the latest case of a revolving door frequent flier, or perhaps frequent revolver, with health care connec...
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corporatism
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regulatory capture
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revolving doors
Unequal Justice Under Law - Comparing Cases of Alleged Misbehavior by Large Health Care Organizations and Individuals
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12:05 PM
How the wealthy and powerful have become able to play by a different set of rules than those affecting ordinary people may be the defining i...
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corporatism
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crime
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CVS
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General Electric
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imperial CEO
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impunity
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legal settlements
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oligarchy
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regulatory capture
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Stryker
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superclass
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Quiet Coziness with Wall Street
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9:21 AM
An article from the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) reveals a new aspect of the growing coziness between the US government and big c...
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CMS
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corporatism
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Medicare
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mission-hostile management
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regulatory capture
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revolving doors
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whistle-blowers
Will the Citigroup Ruling Challenge Health Care Leaders' Impunity?
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12:40 PM
A federal judge's refusal to approve yet another cozy settlement that was supposed to resolve allegations of wrong-doing by a giant corp...
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accountability
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Citigroup
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corporate integrity agreement
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crime
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health care corruption
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legal settlements
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regulatory capture
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You heard it here first
Health Care Also Needs to Challenge "Crony Capitalism," the "New Gilded Age, and "the Idolatry of the Market"
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12:31 PM
The increasing size and scope of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, and continuing instability in the finance system, most recentl...
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corporatism
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executive compensation
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imperial CEO
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impunity
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oligarchy
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perverse incentives
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regulatory capture
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superclass
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You heard it here first
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Not only may you not get to keep your plan under Obamacare, you might not be able to keep your doctor; there are reasons
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
Trying to Make Sense of the Covered California Numbers
I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
"If You Like Your Doctor You Will Be Able to Keep Your Doctor. Period"
I think you can guess who said that. Actually, here is what the President said at the American Medical Association Meeting in July, 2009––an...
Small Group Health Insurance "Cancellations"––The Next Shoe to Drop But a More Complicated One
Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
Dried mussels: A little plate with 160 g of protein (plus some comments on high-protein low-carbohydrate dieting)
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ...
Humana allows policyholders to keep old plans without paying more; Anthem is still deciding
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
Beshear and two other Democratic governors say Obamacare is working in their states, and cite examples
Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...
Almost 1/4 of Ky. inmates have mental-health issue; lockups are becoming the 'new asylums,' Wall Street Journal says
Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
Beshear to study nursing-home staffing minimums, suggests homes' high liability costs are related to poorly ranked care
Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
Can a Statin Neutralize the Cardiovascular Risk of Unhealthy Dietary Choices?
The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...