Posts tagged medicaid

• Whistleblowers Expose Untested and Off-Label Prescription Uses By Drug Manufacturers

  David Mittleman | October 03, 2008 1:21 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  “Off-Label” use is a practice of prescribing drugs for uses other than those approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Once a prescription drug has been FDA approved, the FDA...

• Man Diagnosed With Breast Cancer Denied Insurance Coverage

  David Mittleman | August 09, 2011 1:36 PM | 3 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Raymond Johnson was doubly humiliated when he received his diagnosis of breast cancer. Not only was he one of the very few men who develop breast cancer each year (an estimated 1% of all breast...

• Michigan Auto Accident Insurance Companies Pad Profits at Consumers’ Expense

  David Mittleman | September 16, 2011 11:37 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Earlier this week, I wrote about how the Michigan auto insurance industry has been lobbying our elected officials in an attempt to break its decades-old promise of providing lifetime medical...

• Christ Hospital Settles Whistleblower Lawsuit That Alleges Hospital Had An Illegal Kickback Scheme

  David Mittleman | February 05, 2010 10:04 AM | 1 CommentLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Cincinnati Ohio—Christ Hospital will pay millions to settle a federal whistleblower lawsuit that alleges that the hospital’s acclaimed cardiac-care center ran an illegal kickback scheme....

• Michigan Auto Insurance Industry Trying to Break Its Promise of Fair Coverage

  David Mittleman | September 12, 2011 4:25 PM | 4 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Nearly 40 years ago, the people of the State of Michigan, represented by the state legislature, entered into an agreement with the automobile insurance industry. The No-Fault Act, which was passed...

• Major Lansing Area Hospital Has Above-Average Heart Failure Rate

  David Mittleman | August 06, 2011 9:28 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  According to the annual Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Compare report, Ingham Regional Medical Center (IRMC) in Lansing, Michigan has an above-average heart failure mortality...

• FDA Immunity Law Costs the State, As Well As Victims

  David Mittleman | March 21, 2011 9:51 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Yesterday I wrote about how Michigan's one-of-a-kind FDA Immunity Law deprives victims of justice when they have been injured by defective drugs. This total absence of legal recourse has a broader...

• University of Chicago Hospital Pays $7 Million to Settle NICU Overcrowding of Vulnerable Infants

  David Mittleman | June 30, 2010 10:58 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The University of Chicago Medical Center recently settled a lawsuit charging that the hospital was knowingly overcrowding babies into the neonatal unit in violation of state regulations. The...

• Dentist Used Paper Clips In Patients' Mouths During Root Canal Procedures

  David Mittleman | March 18, 2010 2:30 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Massachusetts—a former dentist was accused of placing paper clips in his patients’ mouths instead of the appropriate stainless steel posts used in root canal procedures so that he could...

• NY Governor Patterson Proposes Legislation Restricting Pharmaceutical Company Gift-Giving to Docs

  David Mittleman | February 02, 2010 10:21 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  New York’s Governor Patterson recently proposed tougher laws that would prevent pharmaceutical companies from giving gifts to doctors to entice them to promote the use of specific prescription...