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CA hospital agrees to $1M patient dumping settlement

June 2, 2008 — 6:59am ET
One of several Los Angeles hospitals caught up in a patient-dumping scandal has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges that it dumped a paraplegic man on the city's Skid Row in a hospital gown... Read more...

NV hospital hired clinics accused of lax practices

March 14, 2008 — 7:59am ET
An area medical center is coming under fire to defend a $1 million contract with a group of clinics now under investigation for potentially widespread infection control failures. The contract has... Read more...

SPOTLIGHT: Fallout continues from Vegas clinic's safety issues

March 6, 2008 — 7:59am ET
Patients seen at a Las Vegas clinic found to be reusing syringes and medication vials are scrambling to get tested for a variety of serious diseases, including hepatitis C and HIV. As many as 40,000... Read more...

WellPoint CFO faced lawsuit over house

June 4, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

While it's not clear how, if at all, this might have affected his performance, it's beginning to look like a personal relationship may have lead to WellPoint CFO David Colby's ouster. Only days after a California woman filed suit against him, claiming that he had promised to give her his $4 million mansion, Colby was out the door. Colby is still married to his second wife, though he's engaged in …

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Heads keep rolling in Army medical scandal

March 12, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Another high-ranking military official has lost his job in the wake of the scandal over grossly inadequate care for soldiers, particularly at the Army's Walter Reed Medical Center. This time, it's the Army's surgeon general, Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, who turned in his resignation yesterday. The resignation came on the same day as the Army released a report admitting that they'd known about the problems with overall military medical system. Kiley, who is being blamed for some of the worst …

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SPOTLIGHT: Outsiders should see FDA safety data

March 7, 2007 — 8:01pm ET


Some say that if outside researchers had access to drug safety data, disasters like the Vioxx scandal might have been avoided. At present, however, the FDA doesn't let outsiders see clinical trial data unless forced to do so. This secrecy can only do harm, suggests a new commentary in Health Affairs. Report

VA loses records on 1.8 million vets, doctors

February 13, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

It's déjà vu all over again. The Department of Veterans Affairs, which has already been part of one high-profile data loss scandal within the past 12 months, reported this week that an Alabama hospital has lost data on 1.8 million veterans and doctors. In this case, the data was on a portable hard drive, used to back up the employee's desktop computer, which has been missing from an Alabama VA location for about three weeks. The drive contained Social Security and other …

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Alvarado recovering nicely from scandal

January 7, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

In May of 2006, Tenet Healthcare agreed to a $21 million dollar agreement with federal officials to settle charges that it used kickback payments to doctors to encourage them to refer patients. As part of the agreement, Tenet unloaded the troubled hospital to two physicians, Drs. Pejman and Pedram Salimpour, who paid $36.5 million for the facility. Since the physicians have acquired Alvarado, the San Diego Tribune reports, the hospital workers' morale has lifted as they no longer …

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SPOTLIGHT: Kaiser's other troubles outweigh IT issues

November 9, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

The industry is abuzz with rumors about Kaiser Permanente's IT strategy, triggered by an employee memo detailing his concerns about the company's extremely costly EMR system. Healthcare IT execs are scandalized by the purported failure of the billion-dollar system, run on technology provided by leading EMR vendor Epic Systems. But in reality, Kaiser execs should be more concerned about the …

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UnitedHealth CEO ousted

October 15, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

UnitedHealth CEO William McGuire is on his way out, derailed by controversy generated by a too-conveniently timed stock-option grant. In terms just announced this week, McGuire has agreed to leave his post as chairman of the company immediately and will step down as CEO as of December 1. McGuire, a physician who has been with the company 20 years, is one of a group of board members and executives implicated in the scandal, which touched on accusations that the company timed stock option …

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