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Showing posts with label perverse incentives. Show all posts

Mission-Hostile Hospital Management: Quieter, but Still Pernicious After All These Years

December 09, 2018

Hospitals exist to take care of sick people, with the goal of making them better. Hospitals employ and work with health care professionals,...

"Hope in a Bottle" - Components of Purdue Pharma Stealth Marketing Campaign for Oxycontin Revealed by Legal Documents from Tennessee

Introduction: Disinformation and Stealth Marketing Campaigns Back in the distant past the US government made some attempt to hold big health...

Heads They Win, Tails We Lose - Non-Profit Hospital Executives Paid Generously After They Were Shown the Door

December 10, 2017

On Health Care Renewal, we have been decrying American health care dysfunction since 2004. For years, the US consistently has had the most ...

Heads They Win, Tails We Lose - Non-Profit Hospital Executives Paid Generously After They Were Shown the Door

December 10, 2017

On Health Care Renewal , we have been decrying American health care dysfunction since 2004. For years, the US consistently has had the most...

A $1.7 Million/ Year CEO of a Safety Net Hospital - Alleged to Have Hired a Dangerous Surgeon, Paid Unethical Bonuses, and Associated with Organized Crime

We have long contended that a major reason for health care dysfunction is perverse incentives, including those that allow top health care le...

A $1.7 Million/ Year CEO of a Safety Net Hospital - Alleged to Have Hired a Dangerous Surgeon, Paid Unethical Bonuses, and Associated with Organized Crime

We have long contended that a major reason for health care dysfunction is perverse incentives , including those that allow top health care l...

Whose Costs? Who Benefits? - A Close Reading of a Hospital System CEO's Prescription for Controlling Health Care Costs

The attempt to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act has suddenly made health care dysfunction a hot topic in the US. For...

Whose Costs? Who Benefits? - A Close Reading of a Hospital System CEO's Prescription for Controlling Health Care Costs

The attempt to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act has suddenly made health care dysfunction a hot topic in the US. For...

Our Holiday Appeal: Speaking Out on Conflicts of Interest, Corruption, and Attacks on Science Since 2003

December 12, 2016

In 1998, I learned of the plight of Dr David Kern, my colleague and friend at Brown. Dr Kern ultimately lost his job because a local compa...

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