Big Pharma, Insurance and Healthcare
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“How these companies are setting these rates is vital for the public to know, and should not be treated like a state secret,” Benjamin M.
Health Insurers Ask to Keep Rate-Increase Data Secret - NYTimes.com
Health Insurers Ask to Keep Rate-Increase Data Secret - NYTimes.com
“How these companies are setting these rates is vital for the public to know, and should not be treated like a state secret,” Benjamin M.
Pfizer and Xanax another Big Pharma #fail | Jason Gooljar: The Working Families Party Man | Fighting in the Class War
Xanax isn’t the most dangerous prescription pill on the market, but the anti-anxiety drug is so addictively powerful that doctors are starting to treat the benzodiazepine medicine as if it were an epidemic in itself.Doctors Avoid Penalties in Suits Against Medical Firms - ProPublica
Drugmaker Eli Lilly pleaded guilty to illegally marketing its antipsychotic Zyprexa for elderly patients and paid $1.4 billion in criminal penalties and settlements.
IBM's Watson to offer medical advice to doctors | Cutting Edge - CNET News
IBM has inked a deal with health insurer WellPoint that will let the latter use the technology behind "Jeopardy"-playing computer Watson to suggest patient diagnoses and treatments.
Today: The practice of nursing homes altering patients' medical records masks serious conditions and covers up care not given. A Bee review of nearly 150 cases of alleged chart falsification in California reveals how the practice puts patients at risk and sometimes leads to death. Monday: Don Esco sought skilled nursing care at a Placerville facility for Johnnie, his wife of nearly 61 years, when she was recuperating from a bout with pneumonia.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at a press conference regarding the health care reform law. (File photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) It’s estimated that hundreds of thousands of patients die annually from preventable harm suffered while undergoing medical care.
Health-Care Reform Rules Would Restrict Public Reporting - ProPublica
“How these companies are setting these rates is vital for the public to know, and should not be treated like a state secret,” Benjamin M.
Health Insurers Ask to Keep Rate-Increase Data Secret - NYTimes.com
Maxim Healthcare Services agreed to a wide-ranging Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with federal and state authorities on charges that the company participated in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud, the Department of Justice announced this week. The criminal complaint against Maxim details how the company allegedly defrauded Medicaid and Veterans Affairs programs through false billings from 2003 to 2009. As a private health care service provider, Maxim primarily provides home health care services and medical staffing to hospitals and assisted living facilities.
Private Health Care Provider Settles Over Massive Fraud Scheme | TPMMuckraker
In advance of my appearance with Michael Moore on Countdown with Keith Olbermann tonight on MSNBC (8 and 11 p.m. ET), I would like to offer an apology to both Moore and his archenemy, the health insurance industry, which spent a lot of policyholder premiums in 2007 to attack his movie, Sicko . I need to apologize to Moore for the role I played in the insurance industry's public relations attack campaign against him and Sicko , which was about the increasingly unfair and dysfunctional U.S. health care system.
Wendell Potter: My Apologies to Michael Moore and the Health Insurance Industry
Wendell Potter on the Anti-SiCKO Smear Campaign on Countdown with Keith Olbermann -- 11/17/10 | MichaelMoore.com
OLBERMANN: Last night, we told you about the anti-government health care congressman-elect who demanded his government health care the very day he starts his new job.Health costs rise while insurance coverage declines - chicagotribune.com
Topic galleries provide easy access to stories and photos about people, places, organizations, events and subjects of interest to you. They bring together rich multimedia content from across our network of newspaper and TV Web sites. You'll find thousands of topics, from hot issues to celebrities and from local festivals to global phenomena.Physician and epidemiologist Ben Goldacre gives a great TED Talk on battling bogus health science, in the media and in science itself: Goldacre starts out with fairly standard debunking of bad science journalism. Too often, he says, a news story about how "red wine prevents cancer" turns out to be based on a paper about how dripping red grape extract onto cancer cells in a petri dish affects the behavior of a particular enzyme.