VA Report On Outpatient Health Care Services
February 1, 2015
On January 12, 2015, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Office of Healthcare Inspections) issued a report regarding what it deems to be its review of selected patient care activities to determine whether the Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs[...]
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CDC’s Report On Hospital-Acquired Infections
January 28, 2015
Earlier this month, the CDC issued its report entitled National And State Healthcare Associated Infections Progress Report (“Report”) that analyzes the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (“NHSN”) data from more than 13,000 hospitals and other healthcare faciliti[...]
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Military Hospital Whistleblowers Face Unique Risks
December 29, 2014
In an article published in The New York Times on December 20, 2014, the professional and financial risks that military hospital whistleblowers are exposed to were highlighted and discussed. While whistleblowers at civilian hospitals in the United States face many of the same risks to their careers [...]
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Perpetrators Of $56M Medicare Fraud Scheme Plead Guilty
December 22, 2014
On December 17, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs announced that the mastermind of a $56 million Medicare fraud scheme and his physician-accomplice have pleaded guilty in the federal court in Louisiana to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and conspiracy to falsify r[...]
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$1.6M Utah Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict
November 9, 2014
On October 27, 2014, a Utah medical malpractice jury found Utah’s largest healthcare network provider responsible for the wrongful death of a patient who was found unresponsive by his wife after failing to wake up in the morning on April 3, 2008. The jury awarded $1,676,737 in compensatory da[...]
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$8.45M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Birth Injury
November 8, 2014
On October 21, 2014, a Georgia medical malpractice jury awarded $8.45 million for the birth injuries suffered during a 2008 delivery when the hospital where the baby was delivered failed to provide the newborn with a breathing tube for eight, long minutes, allegedly due to the hospital’s p[...]
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Medical Malpractice Liability Trends In The United States
November 5, 2014
In a “special communication” published on October 30, 2014 in the online edition of The Journal of the American Medical Association, the authors reviewed recent trends in medical liability claims and costs in the United States that showed a “sharp reduction” in the rate of p[...]
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