Showing posts with label US DHHS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US DHHS. Show all posts
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Organ Donation After Cardiac Death

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There was a time when organ donation after cardiac (or circulatory) death ("DCD") was controversial. Then it wasn't (at least ...
Monday, February 03, 2025

I Really Didn't Plan to Post Anything Until My Next Sabbatical, But It's Time to Get Real (Part II)

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The new administration is systematically undoing years and decades of support for the sorts of health- and medicine-related web posts and pu...
Sunday, February 02, 2025

I Really Didn't Plan to Post Anything Until My Next Sabbatical, But It's Time to Get Real (Part I)

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A niece of a retired law-school colleague is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at UCLA Medical School. She reposted a message from ...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

77 Nobel Laureates Oppose RFKJr's Nomination to Head DHHS

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For the reportedly first time ever, 77 Nobel Prize Laureates have written a letter  (also: here ) to the members of the U.S. Senate in whic...
Saturday, December 07, 2024

HHS OIG and DOJ Publish 2023 Report on Fraud and Abuse Enforcement

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Unlike the proposed, scammy Department of Government Efficiency, whose billionaire leaders seem focused on slashing budgets and trimming enf...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Health Care Fraud: Texas Style

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On Oct. 15 a federal jury in Houston convicted  the owner of a firm that operated 14 pharmacies, on fifteen counts including conspiracy to c...
Sunday, March 10, 2024

Cyber Attack on United Healthcare Division Was Unprecedented in Scope

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If you've tried to fill a prescription or get preauthorization for a drug or procedure or -- if you're a health care provider -- tri...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

Chicken Soup for COVID-19?

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Earlier this week, NBC reported that the CDC is considering a substantial change to its isolation guidelines for individuals who are COVID+...