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 Va...

Now Politico Tries RUC Raking

It has been a year since we wrote about the RUC , the American Medical Association's Relative Value System Update Committee.  There is o...

Move Along, No Health Care Corruption to See Here

Health care corruption , remains a largely taboo topic, especially when it occurs in developed countries like the US.  Searching PubMed or m...

Yet another health IT "glitch", that warm, fuzzy euphemism for life-threatening malfunctions: Internet outage left doctors without records for hours

Up to 112,000, in fact. Nobody seemed to be listening when I and other "Health IT iconoclasts" warned years ago of issues like thi...

Merging Finance and Health Care Leadership - Robert Rubin Proteges Running DHHS, Spouse of Hedge Fund Magnate Running the FDA

Hidden between the lines of some not very prominent news stories were reminders of how close health care and financial leadership have becom...

Don't worry, your information's safe. Community Health Systems says data stolen in cyber attack: just a mere 4.5 million people affected this time.

I have often written about my observations of the generally unimpressive qualifications and capabilities of IT personnel, up to and includin...

Desperate, Vulnerable Research Subjects, Cost-Cutting Contract Research Organizations and Threats to the Integrity of Clinical Research

Introduction - Clinical Research Done by Contract Research Organizations Dr Carl Elliott seems to be one of the few people willing to invest...