OIG Files: The Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos) Verdict

For those of you who have been keeping up with the Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos trial, you likely have seen that there was a very mixed verdict. Holmes was convicted on some counts, acquitted on some and the jury was deadlocked on others. From a reader’s perspective, it...

White and Holmes and WOSBs, Oh My!

What a Week of Women from this Women-Owned Business Lions and tigers and tigers and bears – yes, I love me some Judy.  A woman who was a talent and a trailblazer.  If you know me, you know that I love Judy’s daughter Liza more than most things and I often...

Vax Card Scruples

The time has come for federal and state leaders to come to a mutual understanding that the use of the hard copy CDC vaccination record is no longer a viable solution to tracking and proving vaccination status.  As we have all seen in the press, the proliferation...

Doctors Killing Patients

Two weeks ago, we featured a personal story of mine and related it to Elizabeth Holmes and a Mount Carmel doctor who was found to deliver inappropriate medications in a deadly way.  Thank you for those of you who responded.  Interestingly enough, one person...

Just as Every cop is a Criminal…

….and all the sinners saints. Yup, I love that Stones song too.  Arguably one of the best rock bands ever, The Rolling Stones came from London which is where the doctor on my mind practiced his career in oncology at The Royal Marsden and then St...

OIG Files: Health Plans, Cherry Picking & Lemon Dropping

When I was first hired as an OIG Agent, I was told by numerous people that fraud in the Medicare Advantage (MA) world was difficult to commit, and ever more difficult to prove. To put it into context, it was the mid-1990s, and MA plans were not where they are...