Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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Dr. Goldstein discusses the latest research being conducted on women's sexual health
Detroit area physiotherapy after being sentenced to 62 months in prison for his role in medical care fraud
0 comments Posted by Health Tips at 10:18 PMDetroit area physiotherapy after being sentenced to 62 months in prison for his role in medical care fraud:
WASHINGTON, March 24, Sterling Heights, Mich., resident Nathaniel Solomon sentenced today to 62 months in prison for his role in a broad conspiracy to defraud the health care program, announced Assistant Attorney General, I Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Barbara L. McQuade; special agent in charge Andrew G. Arena FBI field office in Detroit; the officer in charge of the Lamont Pugh III of the State Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (drugs - the Office of the Inspector General) Chicago Regional Office. U.S. District Judge Sean F. Cox Nathaniel also ordered to pay $ 2,875,000 in the response and to serve three years of release on parole after his imprisonment.
Nathaniel pleaded guilty on October 19, 2009, in the eastern region of the state of Michigan to conspiracy to commit fraud and health care. According to the information contained in the documents of the prosecution, Nathaniel, licensed physical therapist, admitted that he began working in approximately December 2003, as part of the contract wizard to conspirator Suresh Chand, who also pleaded guilty in connection with this case. Chand, which is owned and controlled by many companies operating in the Detroit area, which aims to provide physical and occupational therapy for Medicare beneficiaries. In accordance with the appeal documents, Nathaniel admitted that, Chand and others created the placebo files that appear close to physiotherapy services and occupational medical care provided to beneficiaries, while no such services were provided. According to court documents, services and fake reflected in the files had been described for health care providers through medical care controlled by the pseudo-conspirators.
Nathaniel also acknowledged that through this scheme which was signed by nearly 1,250 fake files and physical therapy, noting that physiotherapy services provided to Medicare beneficiaries, while in fact he was not. Nathaniel admitted that he was paid between $ 90 and $ 110 for each file and forged. Nathaniel also acknowledged that about between December 2003 and July 2006, falsified files physiotherapy, which claims to support the health care program value of approximately $ 6,250,000. Medicare paid approximately $ 2,875,000 on these claims. Nathaniel admitted that all parts of the plot was fully aware that medical care and being a description of the physical therapy services was falsely indicated that he had done.
Chand pleaded guilty on September 28, 2009, before U.S. District Judge Sean F. Cox to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and one count of conspiracy to launder money.
This case was prosecuted by Trial Attorneys John K. Neal of the Criminal Division and fraud by the Department of Special Assistant U.S. Attorney George Thomas Beimers in the eastern region of the state of Michigan. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Office of Inspector General and drugs, conducted the investigation. The case was transferred as part of medical care Fraud Strike Force, supervised by the Criminal Division in the Department of fraud, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern Region of the state of Michigan.
Since it began in March 2007 of the striking force in seven districts have obtained the indictments of more than 500 individuals who collectively have falsely billed Medicare for more than $ 1.1 billion. In addition, drugs and health care centers and medical services, working in collaboration with the Office of the Inspector General, and drugs, to take steps to increase accountability and reduce the presence of fraudulent providers.
In some parts of the world, one out of every four people with TB gets sick with a form of the disease that can no longer be treated with standard drugs, according to the WHO Multidrug-wide and drug-resistant TB: 2010 Global Report on surveillance and response.
Nearly one third of the 440,000 people with multidrug-resistant form of the disease (MDR-TB) died in 2008, the report said.
Nearly half of all MDR-TB and MDR-TB occurred in China, where the first drug resistance survey was conducted at the national level, and India. In Africa, and is estimated to 69,000 cases surfaced, the vast majority of which went undiagnosed.
As the report indicates there is a gap in the efforts to combat tuberculosis in Eastern Europe. In one area in northwest Russia, approximately 28 per cent of all people who suffer from T
B in 2008 was multi-drug resistant form of ¬ - beating the previous record unfortunate 22 per cent set by Azerbaijan in 2007.But in areas of Oriel, outside Moscow, and Tomsk in Siberia, the World Health Organization has so-called "significant decline" in drug-resistant TB in about five years. Estonia and neighboring Latvia also reverse rates of the disease, while Hong Kong and the United States and praised for successes continued in the fight against drug-resistant TB.
Even in the presence of serious epidemics, governments and partners can turn around the drug-resistant TB through strengthening efforts to control the disease and the implementation of the recommendations of the World Health Organization, the report noted.
In most other countries, progress remains slow, with 60 per cent of the cases reported and treated.
To intensify their efforts, the report called for an urgent improvements in laboratory facilities, and drug treatment more effective and shorter than the systems during the past year.
The report also pointed to the need for rapid diagnosis, and only 7 per cent of TB patients, MDR is believed that diagnosis all over the world.
The report was released ahead of World TB Day, which features a year on 24 March.
Reduce HIV incidence and mortality of tuberculosis is one of the goals of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals) ¬ - a list of eight targets for reducing poverty agreed by world leaders in 2000.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for accelerated progress towards meeting the deadlines for 2015.
Asia-Pacific nations must intensify cooperation in the health sector
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"No matter how strong and effective health system of one country, there is no guarantee that it will provide protection from diseases [such as SARS and bird flu], if your neighbors are exposed," said Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific).
"It is no longer possible to maintain your health without the assistance of your neighbors to do the same thing," she said in her speech to a conference held in Singapore on the theme "health promotion and the lack of response of health systems in Asia."
Ms. Heyzer urged States to increase investment in addressing the structural issues in the field of public health and infrastructure in order to expand the provision of medical supplies, including vaccines.
It is also vital, she said, to attend to the problems that make people sick and in need of medical care in the first place.
Foreign policy can have a major impact on health, and pointed to. For example, you can change the trade policies of the nation the ability to produce affordable drugs or affect the flow of health workers from one country to another.
"The countries that have stronger health systems will need to work closely with the weaker countries to ensure the levels of increased investment in health, and the number and quality of health workers and improve the overall health systems to deal with infectious diseases are of the same level," the official said .
The United State & Tobacco:
The United States and tobaccoWhat information is currently available to the United States of America relating to tobacco? See below.
Risk factor year (s) available national data available surveys are available
The use of tobacco 1980-2007 Yes 21
Risk factors and the definition of Tobacco Male Female
UseDaily user cigarette (general / unspecified) 16.5 20.9
Tobacco UseDaily user smoking tobacco
(general / multiple sources) 16.5 20.9
Report on health in the world:
World Health Organization report, published for the first time in 1995, is WHO's leading publication. Each year The report includes an assessment of global health experts, including statistics on all countries, with a focus on a specific topic. The main purpose of the report is to provide countries, donor agencies, international organizations and other information that they need to help them make decisions on policy and funding. The report also pointed to a wider audience, from universities, teaching hospitals, schools, journalists and the general public - anyone, in fact, with attention to personal and professional issues in international health.
The current World Health Report:
Why renew the primary health care and why now, more than ever before? The immediate answer is clear demand for it from Member States - and not just working in the field of health, but from the political arena as well. Globalization is the development of social cohesion in many countries under pressure, and health systems, and key components of the structure of contemporary societies, are clearly not performing as well as possible and as it should. People are increasingly impatient with the inability of health services to provide national coverage levels to meet the stated demands and changing needs, and failure to provide services in ways that are compatible with their aspirations. There is no dispute that health systems need to respond better - and faster - to the challenges of a changing world. Primary health care can do that.
