After more than a decade of warning members about the litigation risks of treating
Americans, the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) will no longer cover …

Dr. Michael W. Fitzgibbons, an infectious diseases specialist and former chief of staff at
Western Medical Center in Santa Ana, California, is not a man who simply walks away and …

More than half a million people have died in a recent three year period as a result of medical
error and complications in the United States (Health Grades, Inc., 2004, p. 1). According to …

My efforts to expose and stop the malfeasance that I discovered while working for the
Medicare carrier failed miserably, as I outlined in Part 1 of this series, despite pursuit of …

Abstract Recoveries under the False Claims Act (FCA) have increased the US Treasury's
coffers by over $15 billion since the 1986 amendments. The act allows private individuals to …

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On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act (" PPACA"),'which significantly expands fraud and abuse exposure for healthcare …

District of Wisconsin held that a non-employee physician who has been extended privileges
at a hospital is an employee of that hospital for purposes of the Emergency Medical …

But that's begun to change in some countries and states, like California, in which hospitals
can be fined for reprisals. Some argue such protections should be systematic throughout …

WHISTLEBLOWING IS NOT AN APPEALING ACTIVITY. THE target of the accusation may
suffer, but so can the accuser, even if the accusations are substantiated. At the …