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FDA Now Requires Black Box Warnings For Combined Use Of Opioids And Benzodiazepines

September 6, 2016

On August 31, 2016, the FDA announced new warning requirements regarding the combined use (same time use) of opioids and benzodiazepines, including black box warnings (the highest level of warning) for the serious risks that include extreme sleepiness, respiratory depression, coma, and death. The [...]

Total Medical Malpractice Payouts In U.S. Increased In 2015 For Third Consecutive Year

August 4, 2016

It has been reported that the total medical malpractice payouts in the United States reached $3.95 billion in 2015, which was an increase of 1.68% from 2014. The Northeast region of the United States accounted for 45.93% of all medical malpractice payouts in the United States in 2015, which was an i[...]

$17.6M Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Opioid Abuse

July 22, 2016

After a one-week medical malpractice jury trial in St. Louis, Missouri that ended in a verdict for the plaintiffs on June 28, 2016, the jury awarded the plaintiff husband $1.4 million and the plaintiff wife $1.2 million against a physician and his employer, finding that they were negligent in prescr[...]

Largest U.S. Health Care Fraud Takedown Announced

July 2, 2016

On June 22, 2016, the U.S. Attorney and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced the largest nationwide health care fraud sweep to date, in terms of the number of defendants charged and the loss amount, led by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in 36 federal distri[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Against Radiologist Who Missed Brain Tumor

June 28, 2016

A Huntington, West Virginia couple have filed a West Virginia medical malpractice lawsuit against a radiologist and the radiology practice that employed him, alleging that the radiologist missed a brain tumor on a brain scan that he read that led to the untreated brain cancer growing until it could [...]

CMS Statistical Report On Nursing Home Enforcement Reports

June 25, 2016

On June 3, 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued its report entitled Nursing Home Enforcement Reports Through December 31, 2014 (“Report”). The Nursing Home Enforcement Reports analyzed in the Report covered the years 2006 through 2014 and prov[...]

1 In 5 Nursing Home Residents Experience Resident On Resident Abuse

June 19, 2016

A study published online in The Annals of Internal Medicine on June 14, 2016 found that the prevalence of resident on resident abuse in nursing homes is in excess of one in five, as determined by a one-month observational prevalence period. Such nursing home abuse includes psychological abuse, ph[...]

Prevention Of UTI In Nursing Homes

June 18, 2016

A new study recently presented at the 43rd Annual Conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (“APIC”) that was held in Charlotte, North Carolina from June 11 to June 13, 2016, found little consistency among nursing homes in the United States reg[...]

Study Finds Medical Error Third Leading Cause Of Death In The United States

May 5, 2016

A study published on May 3, 2016 in the well-respected medical journal BMJ that was authored by researchers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland determined that medical error was the third leading cause of death in the United States. The contribution of medica[...]

Are Your Electronic Medical Records Secure?

April 25, 2016

Many people are rightfully questioning whether their records are safe and secure from unauthorized disclosure of electronic medical records and from hacking after the electronic records of a large Maryland hospital corporation fell victim to hackers who unlawfully broke into its computer system and [...]

14-Month-Old Died After Dental Treatment In Texas

April 10, 2016

A 14-month-old girl from Texas died on March 29, 2016, two hours after she underwent a Texas anesthesia dental procedure. A relative of the little girl alleges that the child was brought to the dentist office to have a cavity filled and was placed under anesthesia in the dental office, at the reco[...]

Best (And Worst) U.S. States For Physicians In 2016

April 6, 2016

A recent analysis ranks the 50 U. S. states and the District of Columbia with regard to their working environments for physicians. Although the analysis was not undertaken by a well-known research group and is not peer reviewed, it does shed light on which U.S. states are the best, and which are th[...]

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