21

Dec

Fraud and Healthcare

Several months ago I wrote a blog about a Medicare fraud committed by a local Frisco company, Novus Health Services and Optim Health Services, known collectively as Novus. An Arlington doctor plead guilty on Tuesday in Federal Court in Dallas for his role in defrauding the govern...

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21

Dec

Hospice Provider Allegedly Overmedicated Patients to Hasten Death

A Frisco, Texas-based Hospice care provider is at the center of a $60 million Medicare and Medicaid fraud case that includes allegations that the provider directed its Hospice nurses to administer higher doses of medication, including morphine, to their patients to hasten their d...

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21

Dec

Frisco Hospice Executive Admits to Overdosing Patients ‘to hasten their deaths’ and Make More Money

I read this story in a news feed in the Dallas Morning News by justice system reporter Jennifer Emily last week and I just had to comment about the story. This story was first reported in February of 2017 as individuals were indicted in the case. Criminal indictments had been ret...

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21

Dec

Why the Recent Death of a Pedestrian by a Self-Driving Uber Vehicle Affects YOUR Family

Technology advances before safety. It always has, it always will. Safety rules and regulations, from the development of stop signs and stop lights, the development of trucking safety rules by the federal government, to the development of product safety rules for medical devices h...

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21

Dec

Gas Pipeline Explosions are Preventable….Blaming the Soil and Rain is Inexcusable

Today I opened up my newspaper to page one headlines blaming a recent gas pipeline explosion which killed a 12 year old girl on rain and the soil conditions in North Texas. The same story goes on to explain that 2800 people will be displaced as Atmos will be replacing gas lines o...

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