tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post4695603424738924464..comments2023-08-21T02:57:37.362-05:00Comments on Dr. Wes: What the ABIM, ACC, and Facebook Have in CommonDrWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17438019699222125477noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-78741290731971087022018-04-21T17:39:33.109-05:002018-04-21T17:39:33.109-05:00!Christine Cassel's latest scientific revelati...!Christine Cassel's latest scientific revelation - "location, location, location"!<br /><br />Conflicted self-dealing lead author working for Kaiser Permanente as "founding dean" for their new medical school claims no conflicts of interest to report in a recent "study". <br /><br />Christine Cassel known for using non-profit organizations' to fatten her ABIM Foundation Real Estate Endowmenthttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5377892/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-90647354506090247282018-04-21T05:39:18.173-05:002018-04-21T05:39:18.173-05:00Confused? Meet PricewaterhouseCooper's (PwC) r...Confused? Meet PricewaterhouseCooper's (PwC) recent additon called "Strategy and".<br /><br />The question is Strategy and what? <br /><br />This is one of the most compellingly provocative stories in global business out there and we wonder where the press is on this. This kind of story makes a reporter want to dig further to learn more about the hidden financial/political ties PwC purchase of Booz and Companyhttps://www.pwc.com/us/en/press-releases/2014/pwc-completes-its-acquisition-of-booz-and-company.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-9321591444915013312018-04-21T05:17:51.904-05:002018-04-21T05:17:51.904-05:00"Booz Allen Hamilton Completes Separation Of ..."Booz Allen Hamilton Completes Separation Of Core Businesses And Sale Of Majority Stake In Government Business To The Carlyle Group - Wed, 30 July 2008"<br /><br />"McLean, Virginia – Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. (Booz Allen) announced today that it has completed the previously-announced separation of its U.S. government and global commercial businesses, as well as the sale of a Carlyle and BAHhttps://www.carlyle.com/search-results?search=booznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-79890247430584971032018-04-21T04:26:51.593-05:002018-04-21T04:26:51.593-05:00ABIM, ABMS, NQF executive catalysts loaded revolve...ABIM, ABMS, NQF executive catalysts loaded revolvers for "Wall Street" and "G Street"<br /><br />With Christine Cassel in the White House (ignoring federal coi policy) advising Barack Obama and the HHS/CMS 2009-2017 defense contractors like Booz Allen made even more hay in the healthcare markets<br /><br />Booz Allen Hamilton went public with a stock offering in 2010 raising The arbiter of quality is . . .https://healthit.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/ahrq-pathways-final-report.pdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-1095680338401156872018-04-21T03:34:16.787-05:002018-04-21T03:34:16.787-05:00Pushing Tech: Defense Contractors, GPO/PBM's a...Pushing Tech: Defense Contractors, GPO/PBM's and Christine Cassel at the ABIM and NQF<br /><br />The NQF has very intimate ties with Booz Allen Hamilton, the company that has been responsible for security leaks of some of the most sensitive government secrets. They are embedded at the NQF. The new NQF CEO is a CMS insider.<br />https://www.mintpressnews.com/NQF and the NSA's "Digital Blackwater"https://www.mintpressnews.com/booz-allen-hamilton-nsas-digital-blackwater-sign-deep-ties-us-govt-private-spies/221223/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-88916975980018312322018-04-20T18:35:14.587-05:002018-04-20T18:35:14.587-05:00This blog and the media have superficially touched...This blog and the media have superficially touched on the corruption, conflicts of interest, and the propaganda shell game, but there has been no real investigation of the whole cartel and their self-dealing operations and who they really serve. The Cassel affair was never allowed to unfold and scrutinized by the DOJ concerning what the money and political activity was really all about and the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-39604187301291583082018-04-20T18:34:44.671-05:002018-04-20T18:34:44.671-05:00Obama Care and the Rise in Defense Company Stocks
...Obama Care and the Rise in Defense Company Stocks<br /><br />We need to ask some very uncomfortable questions about the ABMS cartel and ACA money - the bigger picture about where all that government and private money went and why. Not just to the insurers, hospitals and others but to defense contractors.<br /><br />Not even Dwight David Eisenhower could imaging this unlkikely scenario about the DDEhttps://khn.org/news/obamacare-creates-boom-for-federal-contractors/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-47812730651770931302018-04-17T21:24:08.051-05:002018-04-17T21:24:08.051-05:00Premier and Cardinal are not competitors. To conso...Premier and Cardinal are not competitors. To consolidate and control distribution, Premier and the other big GPOs anointed Cardinal, McKesson and AmerisourceBergen as their "Big Three" GPO-authorized distributors (aka Authorized Distributors of Record, or ADRs). Only ADRs are entitled to receive manufacturers' rebates for products on GPO contracts, thereby squeezing out smaller Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02110469245846242650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-11121183787500432922018-04-17T21:01:24.848-05:002018-04-17T21:01:24.848-05:00MOCGATE is connected to QualityGate.MOCGATE is connected to QualityGate.QualityGate (as in Watergate)http://www.swjpcc.com/editorial/2014/2/24/qualitygate-the-quality-movements-first-scandal.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-32587839518769042762018-04-17T20:11:17.692-05:002018-04-17T20:11:17.692-05:00Universal language of money - "competitors&qu... Universal language of money - "competitors" sharing data and the cost of code to standardize products to identify what is safe (ours) from those that are not (theirs).<br /><br />" Healthcare Alliance, Cardinal Health Team Up to Enhance Safety of Hospital Patients and Staff<br /><br />Joint ‘industry first’ effort will make it easier for hospitals to identify safer products Preparing the Safety Bonanza for Cardinal and Premierhttp://cardinalhealth.mediaroom.com/newsreleasearchive?item=122552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-15907442801328898392018-04-17T15:28:42.774-05:002018-04-17T15:28:42.774-05:00Premier Inc. and Essential Hospitals Strategic and...Premier Inc. and Essential Hospitals Strategic and Financial Partnership<br /><br />What does it mean when a company like Premier Inc. hires an ABMS/ACP revolver to be on the board of directors - someone like Christine Cassel who enjoys receiving stock and cash for years. What does it mean when the revolver sits on more business committees at Premier and Kaiser Permanente, while lobbying on K Keeping Up On Corruption And MOC Collusionhttps://www.premierinc.com/americas-essential-hospitals-forges-strategic-partnership-premier-inc/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-5650435247868620742018-04-16T16:20:33.465-05:002018-04-16T16:20:33.465-05:00Here are a few stories below that do not shed a go...Here are a few stories below that do not shed a good light on the ABMS, the MOC Ponzi scheme and their collusional qualty assurance cartel partners, plus their PE masters and all the many GPO/PBM's under the thumb of special interests and elites.<br /><br />TeamHealth will pay $60 million to settle CMS overbilling claims<br />By Maria Castellucci | February 6, 2017<br />http://Guns, Germs and Steelhttps://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/reliance-on-high-tech-and-high-turnover-leading-to-lawsuits-in-hospitalist-heavy-san-antonio/Content?oid=2241324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-10399416662033156572018-04-16T16:16:00.071-05:002018-04-16T16:16:00.071-05:00What are the next revelations to come in the decad...What are the next revelations to come in the decades long story or ABMS corruption and the MOC mandate? <br /><br />Maybe it's something else nobody talks about. Private Equity PE firms infiltrating the quality assurance cartel. <br /><br />The more Priavate Equity companies and their credit arms invest in healthcare, PE money/firms like the Blackstone Group/GSO may place/appoint their Chuck Strategic Partners and the ABMS MOC Mandatehttps://www.natlawreview.com/article/ipc-healthcare-agrees-to-settle-qui-tam-lawsuit-alleging-company-engaged-fraudulentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-87598522481611179072018-04-16T04:37:19.611-05:002018-04-16T04:37:19.611-05:00Etu ABIM, Etu NQF, Etu NCQA, Etu Cecity, Etu Premi...Etu ABIM, Etu NQF, Etu NCQA, Etu Cecity, Etu Premier - the list is too long<br /><br />Further proof/examples of ABMS' restraint of trade through the MOC mandate using their partners and executive revolvers<br /><br />Again From the fall 2013 Premier, Inc. Prospectus, here is another nervous topic for them: payments in connection with GPO programs and lucrative partnerships<br /><br />"Etu Bob Whttps://www.thedoctors.com/about-the-doctors-company/newsroom/press-releases/2017/the-doctors-company-appoints-robert-m.-wachter-md-to-board-of-governors/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-37161212510168708532018-04-16T04:08:05.235-05:002018-04-16T04:08:05.235-05:00As we saw above Cardinal Health and Premier, Inc. ...As we saw above Cardinal Health and Premier, Inc. had financial relationships/key partnerships.<br />http://cardinalhealth.mediaroom.com/newsreleasearchive?item=122552<br /><br />But in the SEC 2013 Prospectus Premier lists CardinalHelath as a chief competitor, which of course they are, but without any explanation or disclosure of the lucrative partnerships that existed between Premier and Cozy Foxes in the Chicken Coophttps://amac.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/empirical-data-lacking-in-gpo-savings.pdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-88686057451107715502018-04-15T03:53:04.554-05:002018-04-15T03:53:04.554-05:00Just after reorginization a list of Premier subisi...Just after reorginization a list of Premier subisidiaries<br /><br />Premier stock issuance sample images<br />https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1577916/000104746913009072/g133334iqi001.gif<br />https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1577916/000104746913009072/g133334iqi002.gif<br /><br />Organizational structure<br />https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1577916/000104746913009072/Premier, Inc Subsidaries/Cassel Chair of Compensation and Member Agreement reviewhttps://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1577916/000104746913009072/a2216569zex-21_1.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-1477693388258373332018-04-15T02:54:56.172-05:002018-04-15T02:54:56.172-05:00As an outside director Cassel was paid the followi...As an outside director Cassel was paid the following from Premier, Inc. [This was buried in an amended filing attempting to cure deficiencies in their regorganization IPO disclosure.]<br />https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1577916/000104746913009072/0001047469-13-009072-index.htm<br /><br />"Director Compensation:<br /><br />The table on the following page sets forth the retainer Christine Cassel's Premier Inc. Annual Retainer 2013 filinghttps://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1577916/000104746913009072/a2216569zex-10_21.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-57618144360155805662018-04-15T01:45:36.996-05:002018-04-15T01:45:36.996-05:00Sept 13th 2013 SEC letters to CEO DeVore
[It'...Sept 13th 2013 SEC letters to CEO DeVore<br /><br />[It's not just the public and profession who are asking questions. The Premier folks seemed to be in a hurry to reorganize and launch the IPO, but did not care to fill in all the requisite blanks such as how much stock their executives and board were going to be receiveing. Note: With Cassel over at the NQF trying to quickly clean up "SEC Letter to Premier, Inchttps://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1577916/000000000013050008/filename1.pdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-22538125646296865622018-04-14T23:01:35.131-05:002018-04-14T23:01:35.131-05:00From the Physicians Against Drug Shortages website...<br />From the Physicians Against Drug Shortages website<br /><br />"Stop Deadly Shortages and Skyrocketing Prices of Generic Prescription Drugs by Ending the Hospital Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) and Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) <br />"Pay-to-Play" Scheme <br /><br />Dear Friends, Colleagues, Patients & Fellow Citizens:<br /><br />As medical practitioners and GPO/PBM Pay to Playhttp://www.physiciansagainstdrugshortages.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-63804754094093432532018-04-14T23:00:45.432-05:002018-04-14T23:00:45.432-05:00Monopolistic barriers and restraints on trade
Cir...Monopolistic barriers and restraints on trade<br /><br />Circa 1987 was a pivotal year/time for the rise of the quality assurance pay-to-play Ponzi schemes involving time-limited certifications. This led to ABMS MOC crisis we have today. That very same year we saw the statutory seeds sown which helped create the GPO and PBM pricing/kickback/anti-trade rackets. These enterprises were not what theyTwo fingers of a hand grasping for power and moneyhttp://drwes.blogspot.com/2015/06/medical-board-re-certification-and-abim.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-58632854959944473042018-04-14T19:58:26.694-05:002018-04-14T19:58:26.694-05:00Wes et al,
Your blog and comments are a wonderful...Wes et al, <br />Your blog and comments are a wonderful addition to the trove of info that I've been accumulating on the shenanigans of Premier Inc. and the GPO industry for more than 20 years. That said, I'm not sure you see the bigger picture. The thoroughly documented anticompetitive contracting and pricing practices, self-dealing, conflicts of interest, kickbacks and rebates of Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02110469245846242650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-11401749473887000382018-04-14T18:07:46.653-05:002018-04-14T18:07:46.653-05:00ACC recruitment tactics for NCDR
It is certain t...ACC recruitment tactics for NCDR <br /><br />It is certain that Premier, Inc's vast data network and ACC's NCDR ovrelap in many ways. Given FaceBook's entry into the data market and healthcare data markets, whether overtly or otherswise, our data is being collected and used for purposes that we did not agree to.<br /><br />"Join A Registry<br />Enroll in a registry or get more ACC's backdoor merger with Premier, Inchttp://www.marketwired.com/press-release/q-centrix-joins-forces-with-american-college-cardiology-effort-improve-quality-cut-costs-2087422.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-65416345889859784472018-04-14T17:03:37.049-05:002018-04-14T17:03:37.049-05:00OPIOIDS: CMS/Premier's HOT BUTTON with realtim...OPIOIDS: CMS/Premier's HOT BUTTON with realtime monitoring and data collection on patients and physicians<br /><br />CMS is already watching and so is Premier, Inc along with their partner ASA.<br /><br />HIIN Pilot is looking for "actionable intelligence" according to the financial/ethical perspective of Premier's CEO de Voe.<br /><br />"Premier Inc. Launches National If Big Bro is watching so is Little Bro FaceBookhttps://www.premierinc.com/premier-inc-launches-national-hospital-initiative-improve-opioid-safety-partners-american-society-anesthesiologists/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-57269807681143182362018-04-14T16:26:18.703-05:002018-04-14T16:26:18.703-05:00Did Cassel dump/trade in her B shares in Premier, ...Did Cassel dump/trade in her B shares in Premier, Inc. along with the Hospital members in November of 2014?<br /><br />"Hospitals cash in Premier shares<br />By Jaimy Lee | November 15, 2014<br />About one-fifth of the hospitals, health systems and purchasing groups that own the Premier healthcare alliance made nearly $120 million by selling shares in a secondary offering underway this Hospitals cash in on Premier stockhttp://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20141115/NEWS/311149946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-75928774641121414582018-04-14T16:14:11.028-05:002018-04-14T16:14:11.028-05:00Everything was going well for Cassel and Premier, ...Everything was going well for Cassel and Premier, Inc until . . .<br /><br />"GNYHA to implement population health analytics and advisory services<br />For Immediate Release, February 14, 2014<br /><br />Charlotte, N.C.<br /><br />Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), one of the nation’s most influential healthcare trade associations, expanded its partnership with Premier, Inc. (Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com