whistle blowers

It looks like the march of billion dollar legal settlements by health care organizations is on its way again. 

The Proposed Abbott Laboratories Settlement

Last month Bloomberg reported:

Three issues that come up frequently on Health Care Renewal are problems with man-machine interfaces in health care information technology (IT), as in this post by Dr Scot Silverstein; ill-informed and mission-ignorant or hostile leaders, sometimes in a position to overrule health care professionals, as in

Here is the latest in the parade of legal settlements of cases of alleged wrong-doing by health care organizations.  As reported by Duff Wilson in the New York Times,

The pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca said Thursday that it had reached a $520 million agreement to settle two federal investigations and two whistle-blower lawsuits over the sale and marketing of its blockbuster psychiatric drug Seroquel.

'Tis the season for settlements, it appears. The Birmingham (Alabama, USA) News reported,

SouthernCare is paying the federal government $24.7 million to settle claims that the Birmingham-based hospice company fraudulently enrolled elderly people in hospice and charged Medicare for services when the patients were not dying, according to the U.S.

Department of Justice.