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21 Jul 2014, 4:32 am
And as an employer who actually witnessed the injury, was I wrong in failing to provide a Claim Form for benefits or failing to get the employee to a physician? [read post]
21 Jul 2014, 2:05 am
Chitanya Kadakia, her primary care physician, took one look at the sample and said “there’s blood in that stool. [read post]
20 Jul 2014, 5:50 pm
Paul Joseph Papanek, declared that the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health permits employees to continue working as long as their blood-lead levels are below 50 unless they are removed from exposure by a treating physician for specific reasons. [read post]
19 Jul 2014, 5:31 am
” The indictment relates to internet “pharmacies,” that ship drugs to people who may have no prescription and without having been treated by a physician. [read post]
18 Jul 2014, 4:48 am
"As you might imagine, SDM requires greater interaction between patient and physician. [read post]
18 Jul 2014, 4:22 am
There’s physician/psychotherapist-patient privilege. [read post]
16 Jul 2014, 9:25 pm
Terminating a qualified employee because of a disability violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and California FEHA. [read post]
16 Jul 2014, 1:25 pm
Terminating a qualified employee because of a disability violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and California FEHA. [read post]
15 Jul 2014, 9:17 am
ProPublica has issued an interesting report identifying numerous suspicious patterns of billing for group psychotherapy services under Medicare, including: Four Illinois doctors (three obstetricians, one former thoracic surgeon) accounted for more claims than all providers in California, combined; One Queens, N.Y., primary care physician had the highest rate of billings, comprising one of every six such claims in the state of New York; A Detroit social worker billed 5000 claims for… [read post]
14 Jul 2014, 5:37 am
Then the courts get a hold of the law and the regulations, and attempt to discern what the original concept was from the actual written language, and apply that concept to particular facts.Then things get interesting.For instance, the California Supreme Court last week accepted amicus briefs - one where a worker died from a drug overdose allegedly tied to his industrial injury, and another where the maximum statutory rate for a police officer's claim for temporary disability indemnity… [read post]
11 Jul 2014, 4:14 am
., based in Baltimore, MD.The jury ordered Millennium to pay $2,755,000 in compensatory damages and an additional $12 million in punitive damages to Ameritox for violating federal anti-kickback statutes with a program that provided physicians with free point-of-care specimen cups in exchange for referrals.The 2011 complaint by Ameritox alleged that Millennium marketed a “revenue-based billing model” promoting drug testing as a way to increase income for physician… [read post]
10 Jul 2014, 5:10 pm
While only 13 percent of all clinical laboratories in the nation are located in California and Florida, 43 percent of the labs that surpassed the threshold for having five or more measures of questionable billing were in either the Golden State or the Sunshine State. [read post]
10 Jul 2014, 5:00 am
The Northern District of California has just given us a great example of the use of Daubertin connection with summary judgment to get rid of cases that never should have been filed. [read post]
10 Jul 2014, 4:40 am
Drobot and Pacific Hospital of Long Beach have long tentacles and are starting to populate California courts with allegations against other physicians, medical facilities and companies along the manufacturing and supply chain.A complaint filed in June alleges that Parkview Community Hospital in Riverside, CA knew or should have known that surgeons were using counterfeit devices, but “turned a blind eye” because it profited from the procedures that were performed at its… [read post]
8 Jul 2014, 9:05 pm
” [NYT via Instapundit] “VA Hospitals aren’t included on the federal government’s Hospital Compare web site” [White Coat] Canadian judge quashes as vexatious suit over non-admission to medical school [Winnipeg Free Press] Brain-damaged child cases: “14.5 Million Reasons Physicians Practice Defensive Medicine” [White Coat, Cleveland] “North Carolina Jury Deadlocks in John Edwards’ Malpractice Trial Against Doctor” [Insurance… [read post]
8 Jul 2014, 9:00 am
District Court in northern California alleging that physicians affiliated with the pro sports league “illegally dispensed powerful narcotics and other drugs to keep players on the field without regard for their long-term health. [read post]
8 Jul 2014, 5:04 am
Physicians get paid. [read post]
8 Jul 2014, 1:44 am
Coming under the umbrella of a medical institution, the physician-based hospital group practices maximize their ability to set prices as a large buying and selling group.While consolidation is fashionably trending in many industries: airlines, petroleum and banking, the consequence has continued to be higher retail pricing. [read post]
3 Jul 2014, 12:08 pm
In so ruling, the trial court relied on California’s marquee case on this point, Rivera v. [read post]
3 Jul 2014, 9:58 am
“The online social network helps to quadruple the effect of the message,” says [James] Fowler, [political scientist, University of California, San Diego]. [read post]
