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Ambulance companies and patients entwined in Medicare ...

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Hospitals, ambulance companies share fraud liability burden

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May 26, 2015 - Although there has been a rash of ambulance fraud activity over the last ... LLP, said in an exclusive interview with FierceHealthPayer: AntiFraud.

Ambulance fraud keeps gouging programs ...

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New Jersey ambulance operator charged in $8 million ...

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OIG: Medicare paid $30 million for untraceable ambulance ...

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Sep 29, 2015 - As FierceHealthPayer: Antifraud previously reported, hospitals andambulance companies will share the burden of fraud liability as feds begin ...

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OIG: Medicare paid $30 million for untraceable ambulance rides ... at Haynes and Boon LLP, said in an exclusive interview with FierceHealthPayer: AntiFraud.

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Feds sue Jacksonville ambulance company for $28 million ...

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Ex FDA Chief Says J&J Broke The Law In Promoting Risperdal

Philly.com has;
Ex FDA Chief Says J&J Broke The Law In Promoting Risperdal
By David Sell, Thursday, October 4, 2012

Former U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler, a pediatrician by training, said that Johnson & Johnson and its Janssen subsidiary broke the law in marketing its antipsychotic drug Risperdal for use in children and adolescents.

"In my opinion," Kessler wrote in a report submitted for a trial set to begin Oct. 9 in in Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas, "Janssen promoted Risperdal for non-approved uses in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

"The promotion of non-approved uses by a manufacturer, because it undercuts the system and safeguards of drug regulation, is concerning.

"The promotion of non-approved uses by a manufacturer of powerful drugs is more concerning.

"The promotion of non-approved uses in the most vulnerable children of powerful drugs is most concerning.

"Janssen's promotion of Risperdal, a powerful drug, for non-approved uses in the most vulnerable children is deeply troubling."

Kessler served as FDA Commissioner from 2000 through 2007, under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

It probably won't shock anyone to know that J&J's attorneys in the lawsuit don't want Kessler saying anything on the witness stand in the suit, in which a Missouri mother sued on behalf of her 16-year old son who grew breasts after being prescribed Risperdal.

But the J&J attorneys in their motion to prevent Kessler from testifying focused on the relatively last-minute nature of the plaintiff's attorneys request to add Kessler to the witness list and the submission of Kessler's 92-page report, without letting them depose Kessler ahead of time.

..... .....

Kessler's report was posted to the Court of Common Pleas electronic docket system late Wednesday in four pieces, as part of the J&J motion to preclude him from testifying. The pieces are all PDFs and links are here, here, here and here.

Continue reading Mr Sell's report at Philly.com here.

Thank you Philly.com and Mr Sell



SFGATE.com has;

UC Fires Dean Of Medical School For Undisclosed Reasons

Sabin Russell, Chronicle Medical Writer

Published 4:00 a.m., Saturday, December 15, 2007

In light of the San Francisco Conspiracy with its non-existent Risperdal pushing Hospitals and Staffs, its Illuminati chaired UCSF Psychiatry Dept, and its SFGH being the Only 24hr/16hr PES in town, and its C&C MHB going deaf dumb and blind at City Hall just 6 months earlier, ..... you have to wonder, ..... 

'Mental Health' in San Francisco: Link Fest

SFGATE.com has coverage of Dr. Kessler leaving UCSF:

Dr. David Kessler, the head of the prestigious UCSF School of Medicine, has been fired for reasons the university refuses to disclose.

UCSF Chancellor Michael Bishop announced the departure this morning in a short e-mail to the campus faculty, saying Kessler has "left office," and thanking him for "his energetic service to the university and his substantial achievements on behalf of UCSF."

Kessler, the onetime commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration who became Dean of the UCSF School of Medicine in 2003, told The Chronicle today his dismissal followed years of discord over finances at the medical school.

Kessler said he was labeled a "whistleblower" by the University of California after he repeatedly sought to uncover what he called "financial irregularities that predated my appointment."

At the heart of the dispute, Kessler said, are tens of millions of dollars in funds that should have been in the Dean's office account prior to his starting the job, but have never been properly accounted for because of what he called "poor financial controls."

He was Dean of the Yale School of Medicine when he was recruited in 2003 to the $540,000 a year post as UCSF vice chancellor and medical school dean.

UCSF spokeswoman Corinna Kaarlela declined to comment on the firing, saying, "This is a personnel issue, and we cannot comment further," she said.

And Despite the Difficulty in bringing an AntiTrust Action against Government itself, 

SFGATE.com has; (dateline September 13, 2008)

SF Fire Dept Loses Dominance Over Ambulances

"If the state requires us to go out to rebid, we will go out to rebid," said Dr. Mitch Katz, director of the San Francisco Public Health Department. But he stressed that the state's ruling turns on "a very narrow legal question that's based on an esoteric statute. ... The (state's) letter itself is a little puzzling, so I'm having the city attorney review it."

1. In a July 31 letter to Dr. John Brown, the city's emergency medical services director, California Emergency Medical Services Authority Director Steve Tharratt rescinded San Francisco's long-standing antitrust immunity in running its 911 ambulance operations and advised city officials to begin a competitive process. He made his ruling after the city submitted 127 pages of documents.

SFFD Says: "We're All In This Together"

California Pacific Medical Center Annual Report 2008 has;



pg 2.

"At California Pacific Medical Center, delivering great health care to the people of San Francisco extends far beyond the walls of our hospital into every neighborhood, every community. It is a responsibility we take very seriously. We are working not just to improve the physical health of the community but also to create great jobs and good neighborhoods and to make our city a safer place to live and get care—care that goes Beyond Medicine."

Absolutely! CPMC's 'Care' Does Indeed go 'beyond medicine': Way, .... Beyond Medicine.







"Whenever I need anything, cpmc is there,” Erica says. “I couldn’t do this without them.” When it comes to making our city a safer place to live, we are all in this together."




http://www.cpmc.org/about/CPMC-AR-2008.pdf

http://www.cpmc.org/about/AR-2008.html

"We are all in this together." SFFD NERT Erica Arteseros

From the mouths of babes, and SFFD members, ..... .

Dr FG Lu & The SF Mental Health Board June 13, 2007: Part III

Taking up where we left off, from;

Dr FG Lu & The SF Mental Health Board, June 13, 2007

"California Pacific Medical Center, and St. Francis Hospital. These are facilities that physically do not have a psychiatric emergency capability, nor the staff.”

And, just moments Earlier:

"Sutter Health announced in April closure of another 28 locked inpatient beds at CPMC"

Dr. Francis G. Lu, June 13, 2007 San Francisco City Hall

Mental Health Board

June 13, 2007

ADOPTED MINUTES

Mental Health Board

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

City Hall, Room 278

San Francisco, CA 94102

BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Rebecca Turner, Ph.D. (Chair); James L. McGhee

(Vice-Chair); James Shaye Keys (Secretary); Bridgett Brown; LaVaughn Kellum King; Dr. Toye Moses, Ph.D., M.P.H; Tom Purvis; Jagruti Shukla, M.D, M.P.H; Lisa Williams; Virginia Wright.

BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT: Jeanna Eichenbaum, L.C.S.W; John Kevin Hines; Claudia Lebish.

OTHERS PRESENT: Helynna Brooke (MHB Executive Director); Ayana Baltrip-Balagas (MHB Administrator); Francis Lu, MD, SFGH; Emeric Kalman, Member of the Public; Julio Montes De Oca, Conard House; Frank Vallecillo, Sunset Mental Health-MHA-SF; Alex Kutik, Member of the Public; Joyce Rich, Member of the Public; Laura Barber, Member of the Public; Mary R. Higgins, M.R. Higgins & Associates; Kathleen Connolly, Citywide Case Management Forensics; Marven Lightner, Member of the Public; David Keck, CBHS, Member of the Public.

These people Should know better than to swallow this Neither California Pacific Medical Center nor St. Francis Hospital owning Psychiatric Emergency Facilities or Staff BS, so, ….. Why the Silence, …… from ALL of them, ….. unless, ….. .

Were they ALL in the Bathroom when Dr. Lu Tendered his Revelation?

Were they ALL too busy ‘Gratefulnessing’ The Wizard of Oz & Tootsie on their ipods to speak up?

Were they ALL too busy consulting their Zialogic (who, BTW, Are operating Across State Lines) COMPASS & CODECAT manuals to make Dually Diagnosed Certain that Uncle Sam got Paperwork-$cienced for all of those Dual Diagnosed Crazies, so that Uncle Sam wouldn’t Refuse to Reimburse them?

Or were they ALL just too busy concentrating on converting that 1, Particular evening’s $2.368 Million Dollars to their own SFGH ‘ONLY 24 hr PES’ consumption, to speak up?

Let’s give them the Benefit of the Doubt and assume that 1 whole Year isn’t enough time for ANY of them due to the Gravity of all that Pseudo-$cientific Diagnostic acumen they’re all wrestling so mightily with . . . . except of course for Deputy Director Dr. Bob Cabaj who must have just Forgotten his Own Authorization of those Facilities/Staff (which don’t exist) on May 6, 2003.

This Environmental Evaluation Application is dated June 10, 2005: 2 years before this Gathering of ‘Mentally Healthy’ Thought Police at this SF City Govt. MHB meeting.

And ALL of These people got left out of the Loop too, Right? NONE of These people ever heard Squat about that check for $17,686 that went to the SF Planning Department, Right?

This is 'Mental Health' in San Francisco, and This, is Dr. Mitch Katz, who is the Director of Public Health, ...... who Also apparently didn't have ANY PROBLEM AT ALL with Dr. FG Lu's:

"California Pacific Medical Center, and St. Francis Hospital. These are facilities that physically do not have a psychiatric emergency capability, nor the staff.”