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DOJ Catch Of The Week -- King's Daughters Medical Center

Posted 05/30/14

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Source: King's Daughter Medical Center[/caption] By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's Department of Justice "catch of the week" goes to King's Daughters Medical Center. On Wednesday, this large hospital in northeast Kentucky agreed to pay $41 million to resolve government charges that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims...

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, Catch of the Week, Healthcare Fraud,

Another Record-Breaking Year in the Government’s Campaign Against Health Care Fraud

Posted 02/27/14

By Jason Enzler The Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services released their annual Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program report yesterday to much fanfare. And justifiably so. The report documented the breaking of several records in the government’s ongoing fight against health care fraud. According to the report, for every $1 the government spent on combating health care fraud over the...

Tagged in: Healthcare Fraud,

Top-10 Public Health Issues of 2013

Posted 12/31/13

By Gordon Schnell As we usher in the New Year with hopeful anticipation of all the positive public health developments that await us in 2014, here is a look-back at 2013 and our Top-10 listing of public health issues in the spotlight. 10. Herbal Supplements. The herbal supplement trade has grown into a multi-billion dollar business because these alternative remedies offer the promise of treating the old...

Tagged in: Environmental Fraud, Healthcare Fraud,

What’s in Your Herbal Supplement?

Posted 12/12/13

By Gordon Schnell The herbal supplement trade has grown into a multi-billion dollar business because these alternative remedies offer the promise of treating the old fashioned way some of our most nagging conditions. No prescriptions. No drugs. No chemicals. No synthetic compounds. Just a simple dose of some unadulterated organic goodness. What better way of tending to that nasty cold or flu, or dealing...

Tagged in: Healthcare Fraud,

Attack of the Superbugs -- Time for the Government to Stand Up Against the Antibiotics Feeding Frenzy

Posted 11/26/13

By Gordon Schnell

The warnings keep coming. The studies keep warning. We are overdoing it on antibiotics. They are over-prescribed by our doctors. They are over-supplied to our farm animals. And we seem to be heading in exactly the wrong direction. It was only two months ago that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the government watchdog of our long-term health and safety, came out...

Tagged in: Healthcare Fraud,

Too Much Junk Science

Posted 10/31/13

By Gordon Schnell We read about them all the time. The latest major breakthrough in taming one disease or another. If not an ultimate cure-all, then at least a novel treatment to ease the condition or its associated symptoms. In some cases, these reported advances really do result in groundbreaking remedies that improve the lives of many. But in just as many cases it seems, after the initial hype has...

Tagged in: Healthcare Fraud,

Fat, Stressed and not Very Healthy -- How We Rank in the Human Capital Index

Posted 10/17/13

By Gordon Schnell Just when it seemed like America's global standing could not get any worse, here is a new finding that sinks us even lower. We are a country of overweight, highly stressed and generally unhealthy people. That is the ultimate pronouncement from the Human Capital Report just released by the World Economic Forum. It ranks the 122 major countries of the world according to how healthy,...

Tagged in: Healthcare Fraud,

Death by Hospital Errors

Posted 09/26/13

By Gordon Schnell As if we did not have enough to worry about with healthcare these days. Here is a new concern to add to the list -- getting seriously or fatally injured in the hospital from a medical mistake or accident. Hard to believe with all our advances in science and medicine, but hospital errors now constitute the third leading cause of death in this country (behind heart disease and cancer). And it...

Tagged in: Healthcare Fraud,

How to Sell a Disease – The Low-Testosterone Marketing Blitz

Posted 08/22/13

By Gordon Schnell Decreased energy. Depressed mood. Diminished muscle mass. Dampened sex drive. These are the daily woes facing millions of middle-aged American men. It is all caused by a deficiency of the mighty male hormone testosterone, a condition better known these days as Low-T. The problem is that the principal promoter of this diagnosis is not from within the medical establishment. It is the...

Tagged in: Healthcare Fraud,

Another Preemption Decision Sheltering Drug Makers from Liability

Posted 07/24/13

By Marlene Koury Pharmaceutical companies are on a roll. They continue to prevail in court by relying on the preemption doctrine to block injured consumers from suing over defective drugs. First, in the recent Mutual Pharmaceutical v. Bartlett and PLIVA v. Mensing decisions, the Supreme Court held that federal law bars suits against generic drug companies for defects in the design or labeling of their...

Tagged in: Court Decision, Healthcare Fraud, Pharma Fraud,

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DOJ Catch Of The Week -- King's Daughters Medical Center

Another Record-Breaking Year in the Government’s Campaign Against Health Care Fraud

Top-10 Public Health Issues of 2013

What’s in Your Herbal Supplement?

Attack of the Superbugs -- Time for the Government to Stand Up Against the Antibiotics Feeding Frenzy

Too Much Junk Science

Fat, Stressed and not Very Healthy -- How We Rank in the Human Capital Index

Death by Hospital Errors

How to Sell a Disease – The Low-Testosterone Marketing Blitz

Another Preemption Decision Sheltering Drug Makers from Liability

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