When you first enter the workforce as a young adult, retirement planning is usually not top of mind. After all, it's decades away. But after spending the majority of your life working at one job or another, impending retirement can feel like an ... Read More...
As posted on outpatientsurgery.net: An Oregon neurosurgeon has a "troubling" pattern of performing repeat spinal surgeries on Medicare patients, reports the Wall Street Journal in a detailed analysis of Medicare database records. But is Vishal ... Read More...
An intricate $7 million Medicare and Medicaid fraud case run by a Jackson family physician over two years has awarded her 125 year sentence by U.S. District Judge Dan Jordan. Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Scott Gilbert said in court that Dr. Cassandra ... Read More...
Dr. Boris Sachakov, of Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, made himself suspicious of fraud when Medicare noticed 85 hemorrhoidectomies claims for one person over twenty months. Suspicions turned to arrest finally when it was revealed that he swindled a ... Read More...
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Dr. Glen Justice, an Orange County oncologist, is facing his own justice. He is pleading guilty to five counts of health care fraud charges for deceiving Medicare and other insurers of up to $1 million for injectable cancer medications. "Each ... Read More...
The debate about how the new health care reform will affect patients and doctors has many reacting differently. The Medicus Firm conducted a survey of 1,000 doctors of various specialties and found that 2/3 agree on the fact that the new health ... Read More...
By Dr. Manoj Jain I don't want to discuss the polarizing politics of the health care reform bill, which is now a law. Rather, I want to answer one fundamental question that my patients and my peers have asked me. "What's in it?" First -- think ... Read More...
Traditionally, American medicine has been largely a cottage industry. Most doctors cared for patients in small, privately owned clinics — sometimes in rooms adjoining their homes. But an increasing share of young physicians, burdened by medical ... Read More...
After a summer of vocal opposition to his health plan, President Obama displayed his strength as a political leader in a 47 minute speech presenting a case for overhauling the healthcare system. It was live political theater at its best, including ... Read More...
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