Sometimes there is justice: A Florida healthcare executive was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for orchestrating what prosecutors described as a massive $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme. U.S. District Judge Robert Scola imposed the sentence on Philip Esformes, 50, in one of the biggest such cases in U.S. history. Trial testimony showed the wealthy…
Little secret. All three are the same, ugly glasses that old people wear for macular degeneration. That was the joke. I always like this one. Tweet
Ok, I made that quote up. Some may get the reference. Anyway, there has been a major brouhaha about the UVa Health System suing patients to get paid. I will give my opinion in a minute but here is the quote from this article: UVA Health System, which sues thousands of patients each year, seizing…
“The worst thing about prison was the… was the Dementors. They were flying all over the place and they were scary and then they’d come down and they’d suck the soul out of your body and it hurt!” Prison Mike Tweet
Am I going crazy? I saw this article “shortening trainee doctor hours hasn’t harmed patients” and was confused. I am seeing a young lady and they are seeing the old lady. The brilliant “educators” are saying this: “Some still long for the old days of 100-hour work weeks, but most of the world has moved…
Yes, we have all seen the above mug. We’ve all had a chuckle. But what if Google really was trying to be your patient’s doctor? Every medical search performed by a patient is saved and analyzed by them. They use listening devices in unexpected places. These are just the covert methods. But how about blatantly…
From the early 1900’s. Watch. Tweet
I am moving these to Wednesday afternoon to give our writers a chance to compete to see which has the highest views each week. The Wednesday PM post usually gets screwed so it has been moved to Thursday. You probably don’t care but I thought I would explain. Tweet
I am torn. When I first read this this article in the WSJ I was on-board. But then it felt creepy. The title is Investigators Use New Strategy to Combat Opioid Crisis: Data Analytics Justice Department tracks prescription and billing records to find patterns of abuse in opioid epidemic The article starts out like this…
I found this amusing: Illinois spent $4.6 million covering deceased Medicaid managed care beneficiaries from October 2015 through September 2017, the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services found. The state did not recover payments made to private insurers administering Medicaid benefits in Illinois, according to the report released last…