Hiển thị các bài đăng có nhãn mergers. Hiển thị tất cả bài đăng
Hiển thị các bài đăng có nhãn mergers. Hiển thị tất cả bài đăng
Thứ Năm, 19 tháng 9, 2013

The Adventures of the Purloined Bequest, the Resident Heiress, and the Hidden Hospital System

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The game is afoot again.  A series of recent articles in the media described a series of cases whose mysterious interrelationships Sherlock ...
Thứ Tư, 3 tháng 7, 2013

55 of Medtronic's Best Hospital Friends, Including HCA, Settle for $34 Million

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The case of the over-marketing of Kyphon's kyphoplasty device (look here ) just got more complicated, and now appears to have involved a...
Thứ Ba, 29 tháng 1, 2013

Broken Promises: Latest HCA Settlement Suggests Skepticism about the Next Big Thing in Health Care

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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...
Thứ Hai, 25 tháng 6, 2012

Huge Insurance Company WellPoint Settles Once Again, Providing a Window On the Ethical Questions Its Birth Presented

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Another month, another question about the ethical conduct of for-profit insurance giant WellPoint.  WellPoint Settles Allegations its Predec...
Thứ Tư, 16 tháng 11, 2011

A New Low - A Hospital CEO Got a "Golden Parachute" for A Merger that Never Occurred

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We recently posted about how top hospital managers are often the first to benefit from mergers and acquisitions, which once again have beco...
Thứ Ba, 8 tháng 11, 2011

CEOs First to Benefit from For-Profit Takeovers of Non-Profit Hospitals

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Last year, we noted concerns about the againy fashionable practice of for-profit corporations taking over previously not-for-profit hospita...
Thứ Sáu, 1 tháng 7, 2011

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

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Starting in the 1990s, as US health care became more commercialized, a wave of mergers lead to super-sized hospital systems, insurance compa...
Chủ Nhật, 19 tháng 9, 2010

Should the President of the University of Michigan be Held Accountable for Johnson and Johnson's Adulterated Drugs and Defective Devices?

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We first started to discuss the intense conflicts of interest generated when leaders of academic medicine are also members of boards of dire...