Daniel Vande Lune MD on How HCQIA provided immunity is misused by hospitals for sham peer-review

Posted on July 31, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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 The Ability for Hospitals to Hide behind the Immunity of HCQIA and the Abuse and Coercion by the PHP: my story and caveats.

I have been asked to write a guest blog and whole heartedly agreed. I am not afraid to tell my story ……

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Guest Post: Dr. Daniel Vande Lune, MD discusses how HCQIA provided immunity is misused by hospitals for sham peer-review — Disrupted Physician

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“Weasel Phrases,” “Framing” and “Data-Dredging” is Not Science

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

Making the Data Fit the Hypothesis in the Rehab Racket — Disrupted Physician

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“Weasel Phrases,” “Framing” and “Data-Dredging” is Not Science: Making the Data Fit the Hypothesis in the Rehab Racket — Disrupted Physician

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The Importance of Sensitivity, Specificity and Diagnostic Test Accuracy — Disrupted Physician

Posted on November 27, 2016 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Sensitivity, Specificity and Diagnostic Test Accuracy

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The reliability, validity and accuracy of drug test results needs to be known prior to using a test. Specificity and sensitivity must be known prior to using a test on any population.

This should go without saying as to do anything else would be irresponsible and careless. Source: Diagnostic Testing 101.1: The Importance of Sensitivity, […]

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Diagnostic Testing 101.1: The Importance of Sensitivity, Specificity and Diagnostic Test Accuracy — Disrupted Physician

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Moving the Goalpost [Criminal Violations of HIPAA by PHS, Quest and USDTL]

Posted on May 9, 2015 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Information obtained under HIPAA Privacy Rule

1.August 6, 2014 to Langan with health materials   2. Quest-Clinical

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The elements of a criminal offense under HIPAA are fairly straightforward.  To commit a “criminal offense” under HIPAA, a person must knowingly and in violation of the HIPAA rules do one (or more) of the following three things.:  use or cause to be used a unique health identifier, obtain individually identifiable health information relating to an individual or disclose individually identifiable health information to another  person.   Criminal penalties under HIPAA, tiered in accordance with the seriousness of the offense, range from a fine of up to $50,000 and/or imprisonment up to a year for a simple violation to a fine up to $100,000 and/or imprisonment up to five years for an offense committed under a false pretense and a fine up to $250000 and/or imprisonment up to ten years for an…

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The Medical Profession, Moral Entrepreneurship, Moral Panics, and Social Control

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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IMG_9005The Medical Profession, Moral Entrepreneurship, and Social Control

Sociologist Stanley Cohen  used the term “”moral panic” to characterize the amplification of deviance by the media, the public, and agents of social control.1  Labeled as being outside the central core values of consensual society, the deviants in the designated group are perceived as posing a threat to both the values of society and society itself.   Belief in the seriousness of the situation justifies intolerance and unfair treatment of the accused.   The evidentiary standard is lowered.

Howard Becker describes the role of “moral entrepreneurs,” who crusade for making and enforcing rules that benefit their own interests by bringing them to the attention of the public and those in positions of power and authority under the guise of righting a society evil. 2

And according to cultural theorist Stuart Hall, the media obtain their information from the primary definers of social…

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