Posted by GruntDoc on 23rd December 2007
Twas The Blog Before Christmas « Ten out of Ten
The Night Before Christmas, medblogger-style. I get to be the Patriarch. Heh.
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Posted by GruntDoc on 23rd December 2007
Apologies to Kevin, MD, here’s another in the Doctors Gone Wild series:
Top Ten Insurance Fraud Cases – Fiscal Year 2007
Ira Klein, a former doctor from Houston, developed several schemes to defraud health insurers, including billing for services not rendered, unbundling pharmaceutical drugs and selling them at a substantial profit and up-coding. Klein was convicted in federal court on 44 counts of mail fraud and sentenced to serve 135 months in prison for his part in defrauding health insurers of more than $10 million dollars. Prior to his Texas court appearance, Klien was arrested in Florida for setting fire to a $3.2 million dollar house he purchased for his wife. Then while awaiting trial in a Texas jail, Klein attempted to execute a murder-for-hire plot against the federal prosecutor, FBI agent and wife number six. It was unfortunate for Klein who lost another $250,000 after the government forfeited the money he wired to pay for the murder-for-hire plot. Authorities also seized in excess of $10 million of Klein’s assets; those funds will be used to offset the court ordered restitution of $11 million dollars.
10 million? That’s a lot of procedures, and a lot of bills. I’m not surprised this got investigated.
Via Sleepless in Midland who had a more personal response.
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Posted by GruntDoc on 19th October 2007
From Medscape today:
Erectile Dysfunction Drugs Linked to Risk for Hearing Loss
Yael Waknine
October 19, 2007 — Sudden loss of hearing has been reported in patients taking phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE-5) inhibitors, the US Food and Drug Administration warned healthcare professionals yesterday.
In some cases, the sudden loss or decrease in hearing was accompanied by vestibular symptoms such as tinnitus, vertigo, and dizziness, according to an alert sent from MedWatch, the FDA’s safety information and adverse event reporting program.
The warning was based on 29 postmarketing cases that occurred in a strong temporal relationship to dosing with sildenafil (Viagra, Pfizer, Inc), tadalafil (Cialis, Lilly ICOS, LLC), and vardenafil (Levitra, Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corp), which were taken for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. Other cases were also reported during clinical trials…
Ladies, if your whispered sweet nothings are being ignored, speak up a bit.
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