Provinces reject federal call for prosecution of over-prescribing physicians

Federal prosecution of health care fraud.

Volume 94 No. 9 September 2011 was sentenced to168 months in prison and ordered to pay $9.5 million in restitution for his part in the five-year long scheme. In December, the parent company of two New Jersey hospitals paid $7.9 million to resolve allegations that the hospitals wrongfully obtained excessive outlier payments. In March of 2010, a cancer center in Florida agreed to pay $12 million ...

Trends in Federal White Collar Prosecution

A Practice Note covering trends and developments in the federal government's prosecution of white collar crime. Specifically, this Note examines the government's tactics and strategies in enforcing federal criminal laws, the elements of several criminal statutes frequently used by the government to prosecute corporate crime, what constitutes criminal intent in white collar cases, company and ma...

Provinces call for improved senior care.

Financial conflicts of interest in physicians' relationships with the pharmaceutical industry--self-regulation in the shadow of federal prosecution.

Main Factors Affecting Physicians’ Prescribing Decisions: The Iranian Experience

Prescription decision making is a complicated phenomenon influenced by many factors including drug strength, the patient’s context, prescriber characteristics, health facilities, payment type and pharmaceutical marketing. To evaluate the associations between each influenced factor and drug prescription method of Iranian physicians, we conducted an exploratory research, utilizing a questionnaire...