State Farm loses FDUPTA claims against providers
The jury spoke November 8, 2023 in the pending litigation “State Farm Auto. Ins. Co. v. Michael Thomas Larocca, DC, et al,” case number 8:21-cv-2536-SCB-AEP. The 16 Defendants, which included chiropractors, medical doctors, and nurse practitioners were held not guilty of committing fraud, civil conspiracy, unjust enrichment, and violating the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act (FDUTPA). State Farm had filed a claim against the 16 defendants back in 2021. The allegations were the usual elements raised by Special Investigation Units (SIU): non-medically necessary procedures and engaging in illegal patient brokering and kickback schemes based on the marketing activities...
Fauci Now Says Americans Should Get to Choose if They Want to Take the Covid Vaccine
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show COVID-19 cases are again rising in some parts of the country. The CDC’s map indicates that several states are experiencing a “substantial increase” in cases (more than 20%), including Texas , New Mexico, Kansas, and Nebraska, which saw a 57.3% spike from the previous week. The local surges in COVID are a reminder that although the pandemic is over for many of us mentally, the virus continues to take its toll. Throughout September and October, more than a hundred Americans died every day from COVID on average, according to statistics. And history suggests those numbers will increase sharply during the winter months of January...
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Meet Isa Diaz: UM HEMBA Graduate 1993
Alumni Profile Isa Diaz Executive MBA Health Sector Management and Policy 1993 Currently Isa Diaz joined Acadia Healthcare in February 2019 and currently serves as Senior Vice President of Strategic Affairs. In this role, Ms. Diaz is responsible for spearheading and developing long-term behavioral health partnerships with health systems and hospitals around the country to expand access to behavioral health services in local communities and enhance Acadia’s position as an industry leader. Under her leadership, Acadia has accelerated its joint ventures with premier health systems and more than doubled its partnership footprint, which will generate approximately 1,300 new beds over the next...
Health Insurers Have Been Breaking State Laws for Years
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Health insurers reject millions of claims for treatment every year in America. Corporate insiders, recordings and internal emails expose the system and its harm. In North Carolina, lawmakers outraged that breast cancer patients were being denied reconstructive surgeries passed a measure forcing health insurers to pay for them. In Arizona, legislators intervened to protect patients with diabetes, requiring health plans to cover their supplies. Elected officials in more than a dozen states, from Oklahoma to California, wrote laws demanding that...
