- Diego Avila | August 09, 2011 4:28 PM | Lansing, MI
Category:
Miscellaneous
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is facing heat from the U.S. Justice Department of the Michigan Attorney General for alleged abuses involving attempts to artificially inflate the cost of health...
- David Mittleman | July 28, 2011 10:00 AM | Lansing, MI
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Social insurance programs for seniors, such as Medicare , have been one of the primary sticking points between Republicans and Democrats in efforts to come to an agreement on raising the debt...
- David Mittleman | January 16, 2011 11:16 AM | Lansing, MI
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Medical Devices & Implants
Usually, when I hear someone has had spinal fusion surgery, I think of it as a last resort surgeons use before permanently altering their patient's body. I know first-hand that people will do just...
- David Mittleman | January 11, 2011 11:17 AM | Lansing, MI
Category:
Medical Malpractice
The Detroit Medical Center has agreed to pay federal authorities $30 million to settle claims that it engaged in improper financial relationships with referring physicians. According to Justice...
- David Mittleman | December 04, 2009 10:00 AM | Lansing, MI
Category:
Medical Malpractice
The American Association for Justice is getting an important message across by advertising in Union Station throughout December. Blanketing the metro station’s walls, the message reads...
- David Mittleman | August 22, 2009 9:37 AM | Lansing, MI
Category:
Miscellaneous
So far critics have mostly focused on tearing apart health care reform by portraying it as “socialist” or as a “Nazi” agenda with a federal government “death...