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Reporting Recipe
By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, ProPublica – March 3, 2010 5:38 pm EDT
Nursing boards – and other agencies that oversee such professionals as pharmacists, dentists and mortgage brokers – do not get nearly enough scrutiny. These boards are charged with protecting consumers from unscrupulous or incompetent professionals, but some provide almost no public information about what they do or how they’re run. They are sometimes led by ill-qualified political appointees and lack sufficient personnel. But should these boring bureaucracies fail, the implications for your health, finances, and home can be dire.
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Filed under: Ethics, Health Law & Policy, Quality Initiatives, Risk Management | Tagged: Charles Ornstein, dentists, nurse, Nursing boards, pharmacists, ProPublica, RN, Tracy Weber |
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Not just Nurses … Doctors too!
Failure to enforce a robust physician credentialing program could have significant financial consequences for one Georgia hospital.
http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2010-04-05/story/justice-department-intervenes-whistleblower-suit-against-satilla
The federal government has joined a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging that Satilla Health Services Inc. in Waycross, doing business as Satilla Regional Medical Center, and Dr. Najam Azmat submitted Medicare and Medicaid claims for medically substandard and unnecessary services, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/press-releases/u-s-joins-lawsuit-against-waycross-georgia-medical-center-physician-alleged-false-cla
Clare
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Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber of ProPublica, and authors of the above essay on lax oversight of nursing in California, were finalists for a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the Pulitzer’s highest honor.
A hearty well-done and ME-P Mazel Tov’ to them both.
Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA
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Medicare paid $5.1B for poor nursing home care
According to Garance Burke, a report by the Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general found that Medicare paid for patients to stay in nursing facilities that lacked basic care requirements in 2009.
http://news.msn.com/us/medicare-paid-dollar51b-for-poor-nursing-home-care
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Gweneth
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