Posted by Admin | 12:49 PM

A Washington Post investigation into diversion of money from US not-for-profit organizations provided a striking case study showing the app...

Labels: American Legacy Foundation, fraud, managers' coup d'etat, non-profit organizations

Posted by Admin | 2:01 AM

Scammers are using the new health-insurance system "as an opportunity to try to collect consumers’ personal information or to make fals...

Labels: fraud, health insurance, health reform, insurance exchange, Medicare, Obamacare, state government

Posted by Admin | 12:38 PM

We managed to go four months since our last post about UnitedHealth, but sure enough, the company that keeps on giving... examples of poor m...

Labels: executive compensation, fraud, healthcare IT risks, managed care organizations, Medicaid, out-sourcing, UnitedHealth

Posted by Admin | 12:15 PM

We have often discussed how leaders of health care organizations have become increasingly unaccountable for their actions.  A recent, slight...

Labels: Bausch and Lomb, conspiracy, crime, felony, fraud, impunity, legal settlements, Warburg Pincus

Posted by Admin | 4:11 PM

(NOTE:  this post, being about minor matters like death and financial mayhem, is particularly and unusually [even for me] biting and lacking...

Labels: AMA, ecri institute, fraud, Fred Schulte, healthcare IT risks, Julie Creswell, Reed Abelson, upcoding

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 | 9:35 AM

Legal settlements by pharmaceutical companies for less than $100 million now seem to barely rate as news in the US. The best report, albeit...

Labels: Boehringer Ingelheim, conflicts of interest, deception, fraud, kickbacks, legal settlements, marketing

Posted by Admin | 10:59 AM

Escalating health care costs are everybody's problem and no one entity's fault. Julie Appleby at Kaiser Health News reports that th...

Labels: drugs, fraud, Health Care Costs, health insurance, Hospitals, Medicare, obesity, technology

Posted by Admin | 9:30 AM

A modern day Diogenes searching for an honest organization in health care would have a very hard time.  Close to the "you can't mak...

Labels: American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association, deception, financialization, fraud, InfoCision, non-profit organizations

Posted by Admin | 10:56 AM

In the US, we have been engaged in an experiment involving handing over an ever increasing proportion of direct patient care to for-profit c...

Labels: adverse effects, boards of trustees, conflicts of interest, fraud, Harden Healthcare, hospices