Feds Arrest Five for $86 million in Medicare and Medicaid Fraud

[From article]

Five people were busted for bilking Medicare and Medicaid in a yearslong, $86 million scam in which they paid kickbacks in order to bill for bogus procedures, an indictment filed in Brooklyn Monday charges.
Aleksandr Pikus, Mark Tsyvin, Maksim Vernik, Denis Satyr and Malvina Yablonskaya are charged with funneling more than $38 million worth of reimbursements on the $86 million in bills through several New York shell companies that purported to provide consulting, marketing and advertising services.



Between 2008 and 2016, the alleged scammers referred customers to medical clinics in exchange for illegal kickbacks, according to papers filed in federal court.
Some of the clinics were run by co-conspirators Oleg Dron, a licensed occupational therapist, and Eduard Noykhovich, a licensed physical therapist, the feds charge.
The group also gave cash to Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries to subject themselves to unnecessary medical services, the feds allege.

http://nypost.com/2016/06/20/feds-bust-five-in-86m-scam-of-medicare-and-medicaid/

Feds bust five in $86M scam of Medicare and Medicaid
By Reuven Fenton, Yijun Wang and Lia Eustachewich
New York Post
June 20, 2016 | 11:04pm

Millionaires on Medicaid. Thanks, Obama

More evidence of misguided priorities of state, local and federal government. But also private university administrators and crime families. Over forty five years of brutal criminal harassment, the social security administration demanded I prove that I did not have over $2,000 in resources about ten times. It was a form of harassment joining relentless character assassination and sleep deprivation all of which continues today. Did they ever check the millionaires?

[From article]
Millionaires living in states that expanded Medicaid are benefiting from government-sponsored health insurance, and taxpayers are footing the bill for it.
In states that expanded Medicaid, people with high net worths and low monthly incomes qualify for Medicaid because of loosened eligibility requirements implemented under Obamacare. And in rural states like Iowa, Americans whom many would consider wealthy are taking advantage of this “loophole” and enrolling in coverage paid for by taxpayers.
Jesse Patton, an insurance broker living in Iowa, has had clients with net worths ranging from $2 million to $5 million, which often stem from farmland or assets from divorce settlements. And those clients, he said, are enrolled in Medicaid in expansion states like Iowa.
“It was designed to help the lower-income population,” Patton told The Daily Signal of Medicaid. “But without the asset test, there are folks that have the financial means and assets there that are good at figuring out how to work the system and capture a benefit they’re entitled to.”
Under the Affordable Care Act, states that opted to expand Medicaid did away with an asset test, which was previously used to determine eligibility in regular Medicaid. To qualify for the program, the government considered a combination of income and net worth.
Now, under the law, eligibility in states that did and did not expand Medicaid is linked solely to modified adjusted gross income, keeping it in line with the tax code.
[. . .]
“It’s distorting the program away from those whom it was designed to help who are most vulnerable and don’t have other options,” Haislmaier said. “Unlike the farmer or divorcée who could cover it out of dipping into their substantial assets, or the graduate student who could cover it through student loans or a part-time job, the poor kid or the disabled adult, don’t have those options. They’re the ones whom Medicaid was set up for.”
[. . .]
“It has introduced new inequities into the system,” he said.

http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/09/millionaires-are-qualifying-for-medicaid-under-obamacare/

Millionaires Are Qualifying for Medicaid Under Obamacare
Melissa Quinn / @MelissaQuinn97

February 09, 2016

Texas Removes Planned Parenthood from Medicaid Funds

[From article]
Texas health officials have decided to cut Planned Parenthood out of the state Medicaid program entirely because of issues revealed in an undercover video, the Houston Chronicle has learned.
In a letter to be sent to state Planned Parenthood affiliates on Monday, officials say they made their decision because a video released earlier this summer showed that the women's health organization alters its abortion process to preserve fetal organs and allows private citizens into its lab wearing only gloves.
The private citizens allowed into the lab were the secret videographers, who were actors posing as people trying to buy fetal tissue for medical research.
"The State has determined that you and your Planned Parenthood affiliates are no longer capable of performing medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal and ethical manner," writes Stuart Bowen, the inspector general of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-to-cut-planned-parenthood-from-medicaid-over-videos/ar-AAfDlHd?ocid=ansmsnnews11

Texas to cut Planned Parenthood from Medicaid over videos

Houston Chronicle
Brian M. Rosenthal
October 19, 2015

Shocking The Senses, Massachusetts Attorney General Targets Wrongdoers in Massachusetts

[From article]

The MassHealth patients were charged fees as high as $325 for an initial visit, and $150 to $200 for subsequent visits, Healey’s office said, even though they should not have been charged anything. Pro­viders are required by law to only accept payments from MassHealth for services to the plan’s members, according to Healey’s office.
The cash-paying patients also were allowed to skip addiction therapy sessions, and only meet with a doctor once per month, as opposed to MassHealth patients who were required to attend weekly therapy sessions and meet twice a month with a doctor, according to the lawsuit.
“We allege this treatment center knowingly took advantage of patients by forcing­ them to pay exorbitant and unnecessary fees for opiate addiction ser­vices,” Healey said in a statement. “Comprehensive and affordable treatment is critical for those struggling with addiction.”

http://www.bostonherald.com/business/healthcare/2015/04/ag_sues_drug_treatment_center_for_charging_cash_for_services_covered_by

AG sues drug treatment center for charging­ cash for services covered by insurance
Insured patients charged cash for services
Thursday, April 23, 2015
By: O’Ryan Johnson

Boston Herald

Nine NYC Doctors Charged With Medicaid Fraud, Sneakers For "Let me see your Medicaid Card."

New York Post did a feature story about this several years ago. Perhaps they were who alerted the clueless government. 

[From article]
“Free sneakers, shoes and boots today,” Bernard Rorie shouted, standing outside a soup kitchen in East New York, Brooklyn, where he was being recorded by investigators
Mr. Rorie was recruiting homeless people, prosecutors said, and whoever had a valid Medicaid card would be packed into a van and sent to medical clinics around New York City. There, after hours of unnecessary tests and fake diagnoses, the homeless people would be sent off with sneakers — selected from stacks of shoeboxes in the clinics’ basements. The doctors, staff members and billing specialists, meanwhile, would rack up hundreds or thousands of dollars per recruit in false Medicaid claims, prosecutors said.
On Tuesday, nine New York doctors were among 23 people indicted in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn in connection with the sneaker scheme, which the Brooklyn district attorney’s office said made almost $7 million and took advantage of thousands of homeless people.
The charges in the indictment include health fraud, enterprise corruption and money laundering.
[. . .]
“Free sneakers, shoes and boots today,” Bernard Rorie shouted, standing outside a soup kitchen in East New York, Brooklyn, where he was being recorded by investigators
Mr. Rorie was recruiting homeless people, prosecutors said, and whoever had a valid Medicaid card would be packed into a van and sent to medical clinics around New York City. There, after hours of unnecessary tests and fake diagnoses, the homeless people would be sent off with sneakers — selected from stacks of shoeboxes in the clinics’ basements. The doctors, staff members and billing specialists, meanwhile, would rack up hundreds or thousands of dollars per recruit in false Medicaid claims, prosecutors said.
On Tuesday, nine New York doctors were among 23 people indicted in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn in connection with the sneaker scheme, which the Brooklyn district attorney’s office said made almost $7 million and took advantage of thousands of homeless people.
The charges in the indictment include health fraud, enterprise corruption and money laundering.
[. . .]
The doctors in the group made money by, for instance, seeing a patient for four minutes and billing for 30 minutes, or claiming they had reviewed tests when they had not, or simply billing for procedures they had never done, prosecutors said. Some doctors paid Mr. Vainer a referral fee for each recruit, while some split the Medicaid payment with him.
Mr. Vainer made money from the scheme in several ways: He owns medical clinics where the patients were sent; he supplies devices for foot and leg problems; and he had financial arrangements with doctors to whom he sent the recruited homeless patients, prosecutors said.
Mr. Vainer also made money by supplying cheap equipment and billing it to Medicaid as a custom medical device — for instance, supplying a drugstore shoe insert and billing it to Medicaid as a custom orthotic, for which he received about $330.
[. . .]
Some of the doctors involved are affiliated with well-known institutions. Dr. Joseph Grossman, 82, a cardiologist, was a clinical assistant professor of medicine at New York Medical College. The vein surgeon Dr. David Glass, 65, a former assistant chief of surgery at New York Methodist, is an assistant clinical professor at Cornell, according to his website. Dr. Grossman and Dr. Glass pleaded not guilty.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/01/nyregion/9-new-york-doctors-indicted-in-medicaid-fraud-using-homeless-patients.html?_r=1

9 New York Doctors Are Accused of Defrauding Medicaid Using Homeless People
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD

MARCH 31, 2015

Release of Medicaid and Medicare Physician Data Cosmetic Act Keeping Patients Confused

[From article]
But the new policy will accomplish little beyond confusing patients and embarrassing physicians.
The problem is that patients cannot intelligently interpret the CMS data.
[. . .]
The CMS records won’t help patients assess the quality of the services provided or compare one doctor with another.
[. . .]
CMS’s release of the records will have at least one clear benefit: helping to identify fraud and abuse.
[. . .]
But these records are already available to law enforcement and regulatory authorities. In fact, many physicians with unusual billing patterns in the 2012 record release had already been disciplined by state medical boards and/or law enforcement. Yet, Medicare continued to pay physicians who had been sanctioned, lost their licenses, or had been convicted of fraud and theft and spent time in jail—a failure of the system’s fraud-detection procedures that won’t be solved by the public release of physician payment records.
[. . .]
But most physicians take their professional duties seriously. They make a good faith effort to perform services for the best interests of their patients and not for personal gain. They don’t deserve to be pilloried based on misleading information. Until Medicare payment records can be made useful and readily intelligible, CMS should suspend their release. If CMS insists on going ahead, it should at least help people understand what they’re looking at.

http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0224jz.html

JOEL ZINBERG
When Transparency Isn’t Transparent
A planned release of Medicare and Medicaid physician data will likely confuse patients and the public.
24 February 2015

Medcaid/Medicare Fraud Attracts Major Players in Florida

A Federal and state law enforcement official walks outside the office of Med-Care Diabetic and Medical Supplies company during a raid in Boca Raton, Florida, January 14, 2015.
Credit: REUTERS/Andrew Innerarity


[From article]
U.S. FBI agents on Wednesday raided the offices of Med-Care Diabetic & Medical Supplies Inc, a Florida medical device company whose executive vice president helped inspire the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street," according to two witnesses.
Dozens of agents from the FBI, Florida fraud department, and local police closed entrances to the building that houses Med-Care, and are removing boxes of files, one of the witnesses said.
Danny Porush is a top executive at Med-Care and inspired the character portrayed by actor Jonah Hill in "The Wolf of Wall Street," which told the story of defunct brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont Inc.
An FBI spokesman said the agency is conducting "law enforcement activity in the vicinity" when asked about witnesses' details, but declined further comment.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/14/us-fbi-wolfofwallstreet-idUSKBN0KN25Y20150114

Exclusive: FBI raids Florida offices of firm with 'Wolf of Wall Street' link - witnesses
WASHINGTON/BOCA RATON, FL.
Wed Jan 14, 2015 2:48pm EST

Elders and Poor Endangered By New Health Care Law

[From article]
Medicaid, the government program that ostensibly provides health coverage for the poor, imposes so much red tape and pays so parsimoniously that she simply cannot afford to treat these patients if she wishes to avoid bankruptcy.
[. . .]
“There’s a massive fallacy at the heart of Medicaid and therefore at the heart of Obamacare. It’s the idea that health insurance equals health care.” And, as is usually the case with the deliberately deceptive fallacies promoted by the Democrats, the target victims are poor Americans. Just as Obamacare’s Medicare Advantage cuts will be felt primarily by low-income seniors, its Medicaid fraud will hurt the country’s most vulnerable patients. It will restrict their access to doctors and reduce the quality of what little care they receive.
[. . .]

“It has gotten so bad that, in the average state, for every dollar that a private insurer pays a primary care physician to care for a patient, Medicaid pays 52 cents.” Many states pay even less. New York, for example, pays 29 cents.
[. . .]
The Democrat record regarding the underprivileged isn’t pretty. They defended slavery, enforced racial segregation, opposed women’s suffrage, and still chain low-income students to public schools that teach them virtually nothing. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that the Democrats have created a health “reform” program that denies poor people access to decent medical care.

http://spectator.org/articles/57334/obamacare’s-medicaid-fraud

OBAMACARE’S MEDICAID FRAUD
Dooming the poor to third-rate health care.
By David Catron

1.6.14

Major Medicaid Fraud Ring Busted

[From article]
The feds have criminally charged nearly 50 Russian nationals for allegedly stealing from American taxpayers in a massive Medicaid scam — despite the fact that they are protected by diplomatic immunity.
The Russian diplomats and their families were living lavish New York lifestyles, enjoying exotic vacations and expensive clothing, jewelry and gadgets — all while allegedly lying about their incomes to defraud the US health-care program set up to assist the poor.

http://nypost.com/2013/12/05/russian-diplomats-charged-in-1-5m-medicaid-fraud/

Russian diplomats charged in $1.5M Medicaid fraud
By Rich Calder, Antonio Antenucci and Kevin Fasick
December 5, 2013 | 12:12pm

New York Post

Medicaid Time Bomb Included In Health Care Law

[From article]
Because of the low reimbursement, and the red tape that accompanies any government program, many doctors limit the number of Medicaid patients they serve, or even refuse to take Medicaid patients at all. An analysis published in Health Affairs found that only 69% of physicians accept Medicaid patients. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that individuals posing as mothers of children with serious medical conditions were denied an appointment 66% of the time if they said that their child was on Medicaid (or the related CHIP), compared with 11% for private insurance — a ratio of 6 to 1.

http://nypost.com/2013/12/07/the-medicaid-time-bomb/

ObamaCare created a Medicaid time bomb
By Michael D. Tanner
December 7, 2013 | 9:15pm

US Court Of Appeals: Psychiatrists Commit Medicaid Fraud

http://psychrights.org/PR/130829WatsonRemandNR.pdf

CONTACT:

Jim Gottstein

907 274-7686

jim.gottstein (at) psychrights.org

Seventh Circuit Rules Psychiatrists Commit Medicaid Fraud By Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs Off-Label to Children

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 29, 2013

In a Decision issued yesterday, sending the case back to the trial court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (7th Circuit) held that psychiatrists commit Medicaid fraud when they write off-label prescriptions for psychiatric drugs to children for uses that are not "supported" by any of three drug references, known as "compendia."

At page 4 of its Decision the 7th Circuit first stated:

Under the applicable interlocking provisions of the False Claims Act and laws governing Medicaid, the federal government generally will not pay for medications prescribed for purposes not approved by the FDA or "supported" by any of several pharmaceutical reference books (called "compendia").

at page 12:

A reasonable jury could plausibly interpret the evidence Watson assembled to show that King-Vassel recklessly disregarded the fact that N.B. received Medicaid assistance, and that claims for payment for his prescriptions would be submitted to Medicaid.

and then at p. 15:

In short, we do not think a jury needs expert testimony to understand that writing a prescription to a person insured by Medicaid will likely cause a claim to be filed with Medicaid.

The lawsuit, ex rel Watson v. King-Vassel, was brought under PsychRights' Medicaid Fraud Initiative Against Psychiatric Drugging of Children & Youth. by Dr. Toby Watson, a Wisconsin psychologist, to support the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights' (PsychRights^®) effort to try and stop the tremendous harm caused by off-label psychiatric drug prescriptions to poor children on Medicaid for uses that have no recognized scientific support.  Dr. Watson, said, "I am pleased the 7th Circuit ruled in our favor even though I inadvertently used the authorization for release of information form developed for my clinical practice."

Jim Gottstein, president of the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights and the attorney who handled the appeal, explained that "Congress limited Medicaid coverage to uses approved by the FDA or supported by one of the compendia, which is defined in the statute as a 'medically accepted indication.'  This is one of the things the 7th Circuit confirmed.  Another is that psychiatrists commit Medicaid Fraud when they write prescriptions for psychiatric drugs to children that are not for a medically accepted indication."  Mr. Gottstein went on to say, "the government has gone after and recovered billions of dollars from the drug companies for illegally pushing these drugs for use on children who are upset and acting out, but the psychiatrists are still prescribing these extremely harmful drugs to children."  The Drug Companies' Fraudulent Scheme can be depicted as follows:

PsychRights' Medicaid Fraud Initiative Against Psychiatric Drugging of Children & Youth is designed to discourage doctors from continuing to prescribe psychiatric drugs to children that are not for a medically accepted indication.  Each off-label prescription that is not for a medically accepted indication carries a minimum penalty of $5,500.

Rebecca Gietman, Dr. Watson's trial counsel said, "With this remand, we are one step closer to addressing issues involved with the psychotropic drugging of children. Kudos to the 7th Circuit."

Miami Police Didn't Believe Kidnapping Victim; Resulting in Two More Deaths

Marc Schiller

This story was presented on CBS News television show 48 Hours on Saturday April 27, 2013.  ABC News 20/20 broadcast their own investigation previously, about this "grotesque" (word used by prosecutor Gail Levine) series of crimes. 

Marcelo "Marc" Schiller was an emigrant from Argentina living in Miami, Florida. He was a successful  accountant, but became greedy and began a Medicaid fraud business. He fired one of his employees, who joined up with a criminal gang of muscle enthusiasts at a local gym. They decided to kidnap Schiller, steal his money and kill him. They tortured him for about 40 days and tried to kill him. They failed. He survived, but did not go to police fearing prosecution for his fraudulent business. The awful part of this story is that when he did go to the police they did not believe him. [It is a problem I've had for more than 30 years of criminal abuses by crime families and Communists. Louis Zamperini, the subject of Lauren Hillenbrand's book, Unbroken, had the same reaction from his own father. He was tortured daily for 3 years after being captured by the Japanese during World War II, because he was a celebrity. When he got home neither his father nor the VA psychiatrist believed what he had survived.] When Schiller was recovering in the hospital coming out of a coma from his injuries, he told the nurses  that he was kidnapped. They told him, "No. You were in a car accident driving drunk." That was set up by the killers to cover up their crime. He gave up trying to convince the nurses.  


http://www.painandgainbook.com/

Pain and Gain
Marc Schiller
Star of Hope Inc.
2013

http://www.pieceofcakepr.com/new-book-by-real-sun-gym-gang-victim-marc-schiller-exposes-true-story-behind-the-paramount-film-pain-and-gain/


NEW BOOK BY REAL SUN GYM GANG VICTIM, MARC SCHILLER, EXPOSES TRUE STORY BEHIND THE PARAMOUNT FILM ‘PAIN AND GAIN’.
Told as a gripping memoir, Marc Schiller chronicles his month-long captivity that many will soon witness on the big screen in Paramount’s ‘Pain and Gain’ movie. Telling his untold true story for the first time, readers are urged to buckle up for a journey of adrenaline, a struggle to survive and a shocking ending.

Medicaid Fraud Ring Busted

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/med_scam_hits_city_rx_shops_9F4gIhpDxF7u8S1U4ilmKO

Med scam hits city Rx shops
By BRUCE GOLDING and JOSH MARGOLIN
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:07 AM, July 18, 2012
Posted: 3:05 AM, July 18, 2012

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http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2012071748_charged_in_massive_medicaid_fraud_case/

48 charged in massive Medicaid fraud case
Boston Herald
By Associated Press
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

ObamaCare Forces Poor, Elders Into Medicaid

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/toss_gran_in_an_hmo_IncA70x3Cv3ZOsdDwg3i4L

Toss gran in an HMO
A fresh ObamaCare outrage
By SCOTT GOTTLIEB
New York Post Last
Updated: 12:00 AM, April 27, 2012 Posted: 10:21 PM, April 26, 2012

Doctor Shortage

[From article]
"Roughly 13% of physicians will not accept Medicare patients today. Another 17% limit the number of Medicare patients they will see, a figure that rises to 31% among primary care physicians. The story is even worse in Medicaid, where as many as a third of doctors will not participate in the program.
[. . .]
The government’s own chief actuary says that reimbursement cuts could mean “reductions in access to care and/or the quality of care.”

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/doc_holiday_Nyb5JCHkWyejLq7dTjTs2J

Doc holiday
Behind the coming physician shortage
Michael D. Tanner
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:52 AM, May 1, 2011
Posted: 11:01 PM, April 30, 2011

Medicaid Fraud NY Dentists

[From article]

"used the prescriptions to bill Medicaid for thousands of dollars without dispensing any pills.

The Medicaid payments he sought were for "thousands of dollars more" than the kickbacks he paid the undercover officer for the prescriptions"

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/druggist_nabbed_in_rx_scam_dfFKxXDmMo0RfN93P9cR8L

Druggist nabbed in Rx 'scam'

By CARL CAMPANILE

New York Post

Last Updated: 3:28 PM, March 29, 2010

Posted: 2:23 AM, March 29, 2010

Obama and Insurance Premiums

[From article]
"In 301 AD, the Roman emperor Diocletian imposed price controls on most commodities and professions in the empire. The penalty for raising prices was death. Yet the controls failed utterly, leading to shortages, more inflation and the near collapse of the imperial economy.[. . .]
Medicare already reimburses at roughly 80 cents on every dollar of actual costs. Medicaid pays even less. As a result, more than a third of physicians have closed their practices to Medicaid patients; 12 percent no longer accept Medicare patients.
[. . .]
more than 750,000 Britons are waiting for admission to hospitals. Every year, British physicians cancel almost 50,000 surgeries because patients on the waiting list become too sick for the operations to proceed.

In Canada, almost 800,000 people are on the waiting list for care. And, according to the Canadian Supreme Court, many are in chronic pain and some will die while waiting for treatment."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/price_controls_by_any_other_name_U1itPDcdkkV9creOxoysFK

Price controls by any other name
By MICHAEL TANNER
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:02 PM, February 23, 2010
Posted: 12:21 AM, February 23, 2010

Alaska Lawyer Sues Psychiatrists for Fraud

BILL ROTH / Anchorage Daily News

Jim Gottstein

http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11974882

Lawyer takes on psychiatric industry for over-prescribing foster children

by Rhonda McBride
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Video Gallery

Lawyer takes on psychiatric industry for over-prescribing foster children 3:42

An Alaska lawyer has filed a lawsuit alleging that Alaska's children are over-prescribed psychiatric drugs. (File/KTUU-DT)

Attorney Jim Gottstein has previously taken on large drug companies and won. (Joshua Borough/KTUU-DT)

The group Facing Foster Care in Alaska says that 95 percent of its members, "alumni" of the foster care system, were prescribed psychiatric drugs. (File/KTUU-DT)

Candice Tucker says she was prescribed dozens of drugs during her three years in foster care. She no longer uses any of them. (Joshua Borough/KTUU-DT)

The lawsuit asks for $5,500 for each prescription. (Joshua Borough/KTUU-DT)

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  Law Project for Psychiatric Rights

Harvard Psychiatrist and MGH Liable for Criminal Sanctions?

Do Johnson and Johnson executives and Harvard child psychiatrist Joseph Biederman need to be criminally prosecuted? In deposition, Biederman admitted soliciting J and J for money and a $350 million J and J research center at Mass General Hospital for promoting their antipsychotic Risperdal. Biederman later "tested" Risperdal on little children and put out citations (studies in various manuals) allowing for Medicaid payment for this dangerous antipsychotic for bipolar disorder in children. Medicaid fraud by all three parties and should be criminally and civilly prosecuted by the US Attorney's Office and state Attorney Generals.

The article shows that the Johnson and Johnson Center for Pediatric Psychopathology Research, a center at Massachusetts General Hospital was funded by Johnson and Johnson and headed by Harvard child psychiatrist Joseph Biederman from 2002 to 2005. Court documents show that Johnson and Johnson contributed at least $700,000 for the center.

The article also shows how Biederman was promising study results on Risperdal and Concerta to help promote the drugs. This was before he actually did the "studies." Biederman sounds like he belongs in Washington DC, where the politicians are always helping people, while they enrich themsleves on taxpayer money.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/03/21/senator_broadens_inquiry_into_psychiatrist/

US Senator broadens inquiry into psychiatrist

Suggests MGH doctor was biased in research

Joseph Biederman,

Harvard Child Psychiatrist 


By Liz Kowalczyk 
Boston  Globe Staff
March 21, 2009

Public Option Alternative


The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission says only 69.5 percent of doctors are willing to accept new Medicaid patients.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/public_option_rotten_replacements_VKbjcLcg1hpL3dHmwPkI2H

Public option's rotten replacements
By MICHAEL TANNER
New York Post
Last Updated: 8:35 AM, December 10, 2009
Posted: 1:48 AM, December 10, 2009