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Adventist Health System to pay $115 million to settle suit over false claims
The settlement is one of the largest of its kind, representing a continued crackdown by federal authorities.
You don’t know everything you should about ACOs. So here’s an Accountable Care primer
Phoenix doc sentenced to prison for medical schemes including trading prescriptions for prostitutes
Medicare, Fair Pay, And The AMA: The Forgotten History
Disruptive docs: Rudeness in the ICU also hurts medical team’s performance
In training simulation, rude comments drove outcomes disparities
“Cowboy Doctors” and Health Costs
http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/08/cowboy-doctors-and-health-costs
WHO’S DRIVING UP U.S. healthcare costs? A recent study by Harvard professors and colleagues revealed that the culprits may be “cowboy doctors”—physicians who provide intensive, unnecessary, and often ineffective patient care, resulting in wasteful spending costing as much as 2 percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product—hundreds of billions of dollars annually
Behind Higher Physician Fees, a Big Problem Lurks
Price of Addiction: Oregon AG outlines drug-maker’s use of aggressive tactics to win over doctors
Behind the $1.1 million settlement between Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and a drug manufacturer lies a tale of “unconscionable, false and deceptive sales tactics,” including wining and dining, and even flirting with, Oregon doctors.
5 Emerging Technologies Every Hospital Will Have By 2025
Wearable fitness devices and smartphone health apps that generate continuous streams of data will be the biggest catalysts for change at your doctor’s office in the coming decades. Investors seem excited about the potential. Digital health startups attracted investments of $6.5 billion in 2014, a 125 percent increase from the previous year. If the momentum continues, wearables—coupled with social and analytic platforms based in the cloud—are poised to offer a new digitized picture of our health in the next decade.
HENRY KOTULA 