MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'extortion'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:25:32 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4294580&cid=t_210893_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F12%2Fhackensack-university-medical-center.html Last year was an embarassing one for Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC), a large academic medical center affiliated with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.  In April, former state senator Joseph Coniglio was convicted of fraud (against the public) and extortion for a scheme that involved him being paid $5000 a month for undefined consulting work for HUMC while he promoted the hospital's interests in the state legislature (see post here).  A subsequent investigative report revealed widespread self-dealing on the part of the HUMC board (see post here).  Soon after, the HUMC CEO, John Ferguson, announced his retirement, per the Newark Star-Ledger.Scandal Leads to Apparent ReformsSo when I read an article from last week on NorthJersey.com entit... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4294580 Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:47:00 +0100 4294580 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4082161&cid=t_210893_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2010%2F10%2F15%2Femr-vendor-extortion-for-renewal-fees%2F A reader of EMR and HIPAA recently emailed me about the title of this post. The way they saw it, the software renewals fees for an existing EMR user amounted to EMR vendor extortion. This person felt like providers had little options when it came to the renewal fees that EMR vendors would charge them. The fact of the matter is that it’s not actually extortion (from what I’ve seen), but it certainly can feel that way if you’re a provider that’s getting charge a train load of money to renew or update your license with your EMR vendor. Unfortunately, once you’re in that position you really don’t have many options. Plus, your options are always very specific to the contract you signed with the EMR vendor. Instead of focusing on those who are stuck with littl... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4082161 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:52:45 +0100 4082161 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3115062&cid=t_210893_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F2gqAm8mv3Lc%2F By Daniel J. MitchellSince Senators engaged in open extortion and bribery to enact Reid’s government-run health care plan, it is hardly newsworthy that Washington is riddled with corruption. But the magnitude of sleaze is probably far greater than most people realize. There is a new study from a couple of academics at the University of Michigan, who found significant relationships between lobbying and bailout money, as well as a greater chance of getting bailouts depending on a bank’s ties with either the Federal Reserve or key members of Congress. Hopefully, people across America will draw the obvious conclusion and realize that big government is inherently corrupting, as discussed in this video. Reuters has the details on this latest example of big government and malfeasance:... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3115062 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:53:25 +0100 3115062 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2734017&cid=t_210893_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FPuM1JVDzA4c%2F Last month I blogged about attempts by various state governments to regulate yoga instructors by forcing them to obtain a costly government license.  Today the Washington Post has a story on Virginia’s efforts to place the government boot on the necks of its yogis: The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia recently declared that studios offering yoga teacher instruction must be certified. That involves a $2,500 fee, audits, annual charges of at least $500 and a pile of paperwork. Let’s call this what it is: extortion.  And if you still harbor the illusion that bureaucrats don’t sit around thinking up ways to pilfer more money from productive members of society, think again: In Virginia, yoga teacher training first hit the state’s radar late last year afte... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2734017 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:54:53 +0100 2734017 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2389916&cid=t_210893_109_f&fid=34795&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoloshrink.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fanother-electronic-medical-record.html I have harped on the topics of the potentially disastrous consequences of data loss or theft from medical health database repositories for some time now. I have personally been the victim of such a data loss by the Veteran's Health Administration, which lost all my provider information, financial account and license numbers, social security and business banking numbers, addresses, and all the other personal information to make identity theft a breeze. Nothing awful happened as a result of this loss. I was given a year's free three bureau credit monitoring subscription by the VHA. It is my personal belief that one of their less experienced employees or interns had simply carried the information for a service provider demographic study offsite on a thumb drive to work on it at home and lost... Solo Shrink blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2389916 Thu, 07 May 2009 05:37:00 +0100 2389916 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2144583&cid=t_210893_93_f&fid=34899&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mexicomedstudent.com%2F2009%2F01%2F901 You will be added to the collective. Through the power of collective blogging (and Twittering), yet another storm is brewing about Wellsphere in the face of their being bought out by HealthCentral for an undisclosed millions of dollars. HealthCentral currently has over $50 million in VC funding, so this isn’t chump change. Wellsphere claims thousands of medical “experts” in its network and boasts unique page views in the millions per month through its presence among its network “partners” (ie, unwitting bloggers). Well, it’s more “penetration” than “presence” in the end, because the kicker here is that Wellsphere not only doesn’t pay their partners a damn thing, but worse, outright steals content from bloggers’ own sit... Mexico Medical Student blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2144583 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:14:42 +0100 2144583 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2116550&cid=t_210893_133_f&fid=37107&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Faspieweb%2F%7E3%2FOkRc9OoX684%2F I ran into an new piece on a man who is disabled to a wheelchair who goes around to businesses and and documents violations of the American’s With Disabilities Act (ADA) and then sues them - making over $100,000 USD a year! Embedded video from CNN Video According to CNN.com Tom Mundy has been doing this as [...] This is an excerpt from an article on AspieWeb.net, A blog writen by an Autistic Blogger. (Source: AspieWeb.net) AspieWeb.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2116550 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:57:11 +0100 2116550