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grassley
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Agency’s restrictions on data about disciplined doctors continue to get attention
The Kansas City Star and The Sacramento Bee ran editorials over the weekend to denounce the recent decision by the…
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Public hospitals, not nonprofits, shoulder burden of charity care
Writing in the Contra Costa Times, Sandy Kleffman reports that while nonprofit hospitals in the East Bay are given millions…
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Grassley criticizes federal agency over removal of doctor discipline data
Grassley’s letter to HRSA Administrator Wakefield See an interactive timeline of the National Practitioner Data Bank controversy. Oct. 2: Former…
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Cash-strapped Ill. goes after hospitals’ nonprofit status
A New York Times article written by Bruce Japsen, an independent journalist writing for the Chicago News Co-Op, digs into…
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Reporter digs into nonprofit hospital CEO pay
At The Atlanta Journal-Constitution‘s M.B. Pell has assembled a look at CEO pay at local nonprofit hospitals. Pell hits hard…
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ProPublica investigates ties between doc groups, industry
With an assist from Sen. Chuck Grassley, ProPublica senior reporters Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, AHCJ’s board president, have published…
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Senators join fight to open Medicare claims data
Two senators have joined the effort to open up the Medicare claims database that reveals what payments doctors get through…
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Four states refuse to name hyper-prescribing docs
As part of his war against overprescription and fraud, Sen. Charles Grassley asked states to share data on doctors who …
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Fraud-busting contractors slow to refer cases
Despite recent high-profile busts, the private contractors hired by Medicare to sniff out fraud cases and refer them to law…
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Grassley digs into journal ghostwriting practices
Ben Comer of Medical Marketing & Media reports that Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley sent a letter to eight prominent…