The game is afoot again. A series of recent articles in the media described a series of cases whose mysterious interrelationships Sherlock ...
55 of Medtronic's Best Hospital Friends, Including HCA, Settle for $34 Million
The case of the over-marketing of Kyphon's kyphoplasty device (look here ) just got more complicated, and now appears to have involved a...
Broken Promises: Latest HCA Settlement Suggests Skepticism about the Next Big Thing in Health Care
A long time ago in the US, most people got care from physicians who were self-employed, or part of physician partnerships. If they had to b...
Huge Insurance Company WellPoint Settles Once Again, Providing a Window On the Ethical Questions Its Birth Presented
Another month, another question about the ethical conduct of for-profit insurance giant WellPoint. WellPoint Settles Allegations its Predec...
A New Low - A Hospital CEO Got a "Golden Parachute" for A Merger that Never Occurred
We recently posted about how top hospital managers are often the first to benefit from mergers and acquisitions, which once again have beco...
CEOs First to Benefit from For-Profit Takeovers of Non-Profit Hospitals
Last year, we noted concerns about the againy fashionable practice of for-profit corporations taking over previously not-for-profit hospita...
The Restless Shade of AHERF and the Return of Merger Mania: Highmark Tries to Buy Another Insurance Company, a Hospital System, a Medical School, and Physicians' Practices
Starting in the 1990s, as US health care became more commercialized, a wave of mergers lead to super-sized hospital systems, insurance compa...
Should the President of the University of Michigan be Held Accountable for Johnson and Johnson's Adulterated Drugs and Defective Devices?
We first started to discuss the intense conflicts of interest generated when leaders of academic medicine are also members of boards of dire...