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Baron and Budd Announces $177 Million Settlement for Seven States Against Avandia Manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline
DALLAS, Jun 13, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The national law firm of Baron and Budd has reached a $177 million settlement with GlaxoSmithKline on behalf of the states of Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia regarding the deceptive advertising of the diabetes drug Avandia. This result represents the largest settlement of a pharmaceutical case ever for several of the involved states, and a much higher settlement for each individual state than what they would otherwise have received in a multistate settlement reached in 2012. Baron and Budd attorneys Russell Budd, Burton LeBlanc, Lau...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 13, 2014 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
The RUC. "an Independent Group of Physicians?" - But It Includes Executives and Board Members of For-Profit Health Care Corporations and Large Hospital Systems
Introduction We just discussed how a major story in Politico has once again drawn attention to the opaque RUC (Resource Based Relative Value System Update Committee) and its important role in determining what physicians are paid for different kinds of services, and hence the incentives that have helped make the US health care system so procedurally oriented. (See the end of our last post for a summary of the complex issues that swirl around the RUC.)The Politico article covered most of the bases, but notably omitted how the RUC may be tied to various large health care organizations, especially for-profit, and how the...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 28, 2014 Category: Health Management Tags: AMA boards of directors conflicts of interest health care prices healthcare executive hospital systems perverse incentives regulatory capture RUC Source Type: blogs
Barriers To Change: The View From Berlin
For the past two years, Health Affairs has published blog posts arising from the Center for Healthcare Management’s forums, held in Berlin. These events are unlike a typical conference — more conversation than presentation, and more participation by various actors in the health care sector than discussion of a single topic. An excellent summary of the entire event can be found here.
Why Is Change So Slow?
The same question bedeviled the attendees as challenges all who are interested in improvement in the health sector: If the distance between the value we obtain from our health care investment and what we receive f...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 2, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Alan Weil and Katharina Janus Tags: Once in a Weil Payment Policy delivery system innovation Politics Source Type: blogs
End-of-Life Healthcare Sessions at ASBH 2017
Conclusion: Patients with LEP had significant differences and disparities in
end-of-life decision-making. Interventions to facilitate informed
decision-making for those with LEP is a crucial component of care for this
group.
THU 1:30 pm: “But She’ll Die if You Don’t!”: Understanding and
Communicating Risks at the End of Life (Janet Malek)
Clinicians sometimes decline to offer interventions even if their refusal will
result in an earlier death for their patients. For example, a nephrologist may
decide against initiating hemodialysis despite a patient’s rising creatinine
levels if dea...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - July 26, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
About 1,100 Puerto Rican Deaths from Maria -- NOT 2,795 or 4,645
The estimated number of above-average “excess deaths” in Puerto Ricoattributedto Hurricane Maria (Sept 20, 2017) is a difficult figure to estimate objectively. Puerto Rico’s official figure of 64 deaths by December 9, 2017 (which the President remembered) counted only those deathsdirectlyattributed to the storm and confirmed by medical examiners. Most of thedirect deaths from Katrina were fromdrowning– which is much easier to attribute to the storm than many other causes of death. Studies of Puerto Rican deaths from Maria aspire to account for a wide range ofindirect effects that are presumed (not proven) to b...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 17, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Reforming the Organ Donation System
David Kemp andPeter Van DorenThe Washington Postrecently reported on the logistic and technological failings of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the private non ‐profit agency with a government ‐enforced monopoly on the United States’ system of procuring organ donations and matching donated organs to the over 100,000 people waiting for them. A report from the White House US Digital Service found that UNOS has been ineffective, lacks transparency, and relies on outdated software, with frequent system failures and cybersecurity concerns. While UNOS has resisted efforts to modernize and refor...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 10, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: David Kemp, Peter Van Doren Source Type: blogs
