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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:16:25 -0500
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Justice suit accuses Johnson & Johnson
of paying kickbacks
By David S. Hilzenrath
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Medical giant Johnson & Johnson paid
tens of millions of dollars in
kickbacks to boost sales of its drugs
in nursing homes, including an
antipsychotic that can be used as
a chemical restraint, the Justice
Department alleged in a lawsuit Friday.
The payments, sometimes disguised as
grants or educational funding, were
funneled to Omnicare, a pharmacy
company that dispenses drugs in nursing
homes and used its influence with
doctors to get prescriptions switched,
the government said. Johnson & Johnson
came to regard Omnicare pharmacists as an
extension of its sales force, the government
said, citing a company document. "Kickbacks
such as those alleged here distort the
judgments of health care professionals and
put profits ahead of sound medical
treatment," Tony West, assistant attorney
general for the Justice Department's Civil
Division, said in a news release.
<http://tinyurl.com/yekh83f>
Fraud at Blanchette Place nursing home
SuburbanJournals
... Robert D. Wachter, was sentenced
to 18 months in federal prison for
Medicaid and Medicare fraud at Claywest
and two other Missouri nursing
homes. ...
<http://suburbanjournals.stltoday.com/
articles/2010/01/16/stcharles/news/
0117stc-blanchette0.txt>
Judie Rappaport: Day care can help
seniors with dementia to socialize
Vero Beach Press-Journal (subscription)
... this level after two months; how
Mom's current status affects her
long-term prognosis; and whether Mom
always will require some form of pain
management. ...
<http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/
jan/15/day-care-can-help-
seniors-with-dementia-to/>
Antipsychotics, Nursing Homes and
the Feds' Case Against J&J
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Jacob Goldstein
The feds say J&J paid kickbacks to
a big nursing-home pharmacy company
to get the company to prescribe more
of its drugs, including the ...
<http://tinyurl.com/yl3452a>
Ulster County was warned about
nursing home's pipes
Times Herald-Record
The nursing home would be expensive
to renovate ? $34 million to $43.9
million, according to 2005 estimates.
A blue-ribbon commission in 2008
recommended ...
<http://www.recordonline.com/
apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/
20100116/NEWS/1160343>
Man's family doubts he left
nursing home on his own
Daily Comet
By Raymond Legendre
THIBODAUX ? Almost a week after
authorities found a 93-year-old
nursing home resident lying on
the ground outside in freezing
conditions ...
<http://www.dailycomet.com/article/
20100116/ARTICLES/100119513/1026>
107 year-old Newark woman leaves
nursing home after rehab from
suffering a fall
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
107 year-old Louise Fuller of Newark
is assisted in getting into her
granddaughter's car by Uchenna Nene,
nurse unit manager at the New
Community Extended ...
<http://photos.nj.com/star-ledger/
2010/01/exfuller011jpg.html>
Loving Care nursing home has its
own history of complaints
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A staff member at Whispering Oaks
said some residents were taken to Oak
Knoll Nursing Home at 37 North Clark
in Ferguson. State regulators last
visited Oak ...
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/
stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/
9D60E9D93ECFDCB6862576AD00153D96?OpenDocument>
Ex-nursing home employee accused
of raiding trust fund
Spartanburg Herald Journal
By Craig Peters
A former nursing home employee
accused of taking more than
$32000 from a patient trust account
was arrested Thursday and charged with...
<http://www.goupstate.com/article/
20100116/ARTICLES/1161023/1051>
Nursing home's new owners:
'falls on us to fix' problems
SuburbanJournals
By Raymond Castile
HI Care Management grabbed hold of
a hornet's nest when it took control
of Blanchette Place and two other
nursing homes formerly operated ...
<http://suburbanjournals.stltoday.com/
articles/2010/01/16/stcharles/news/
0117stc-home00.txt>
Stuffed kangaroo brings smiles
to Wood River nursing home
Grand Island Independent
Every year for Christmas, she has
exchanged goofy gifts with the skilled
nursing home's cook, Cam Ripp.
She was having trouble coming up with
a good idea ...
<http://www.theindependent.com/articles/
2010/01/16/news/local/11274200.txt>
STELARA®* Shows Greater Efficacy
than Etanercept for Treatment Of
Moderate-To ...
Healthcanal.com
... dementia, attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder, psoriasis, pain
management, women's health, infectious
disease, anemia, oncology, and
virology.
<http://www.healthcanal.com/
drugs-approvals-trials/5049.html>
Pain studies in medical
journals were faked
Vancouverite
Reuben is alleged to have solicited
and obtained research grants from
pharmaceutical companies to perform
research studies on pain management,...
<http://www.vancouverite.com/2010/01/16/
pain-studies-in-medical-journals-were-faked/>
Call for Public Comment -
Nursing: Scope & Standards of Practice
01/12/10
The American Nurses Association (ANA)
is seeking comments on the
following revised publication: Nursing:
Scope & Standards of Practice, Second Edition
ANA provides information in this document
on the scope of practice for all registered
nurses, as well as the standards to which
they as practicing professionals are held.
This document represents one of the three
foundational documents for nursing practice,
and this draft has undergone revision by a
group of nurse experts from the previous 2004
edition. There have been some significant
changes, including the incorporation of
competency statements in the place of
measurement criteria under the standards
section, and an expanded list of standards
of practice. If you are interested in
participating in this review, download the
document and submit your comments online
(see below) by 5:00pm EST on March, 12, 2010.
<http://tinyurl.com/ybq2mqm>
Organized Crime Muscles In On Health Care
NPR
12:00 pm ET This week, federal
agents arrested more than a dozen
people in the Detroit area in a
$14 million Medicare fraud scheme
that focused on home ...
<http://www.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=122645717>
Barbara Acello
bacello@xxxxxxxxxxx
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