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- FL docs play key roles in Haiti
- Team rescues Florida woman
- Doctor wrote 1,000 scripts/week
- Medics overwhelmed by injured
- Insurers, state reach pact on cancer
- Jackson Health names new COO
- County, hospitals fight over billing
- Latest outrage: home-care scams
| FL docs play key roles in Haiti Posted: U-Miami neurosurgeon Barth Green is coordinating international medical relief in Haiti and will run a field hospital set up under tents at the airport in Port-au-Prince. Meanwhile the Gainesville Sun reports that a UF forensic scientist is in Port-au-Prince setting up a portable mortuary. And some doctors say the biggest threat to Haitians' health may be yet to come, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. |
| Posted: Mireille Dittmer's family in Pembroke Pines rejoiced when a rescue team from South Florida pulled her from a collapsed market in Port-au-Prince. Meanwhile, the Fort Myers News-Press describes the struggles of a medical team from Naples, struggling to save lives in the chaos. |
| Doctor wrote 1,000 scripts/week Posted: By Carol Gentry 1/15/2010 © Health News Florida Since 2004, a Miami psychiatrist has prescribed almost 14 million pills to Medicaid patients at a cost to taxpayers of $43 million, a feverish pace of 1,000 prescriptions a week. A state senator says the doctor should be the "poster boy for tougher enforcement actions." |
| Posted: 1/14/2010 © New York Times First aid responders and doctors tried to triage the massive number of injured in Haiti as the death toll estimate rose to 45,000. They didn't even have aspirin, much less anesthesia. |
| Insurers, state reach pact on cancer Posted: 1/13/2010 © Health News Florida The state’s largest insurance companies on Wednesday said they have signed a voluntary pact committing them to cover routine medical treatments for cancer patients who enroll in clinical trials. |
| Posted: 1/13/2010 © Miami Herald David R. Small arrives from a similar post in Chicago to help stimulate Miami-Dade's beleaguered safety-net system. Jackson officials also said the process is well under way to have three systems pay for one month of dialysis for 40-some patients. |
| County, hospitals fight over billing Posted: 1/13/2020 © Sarasota Health News A financial dispute between three Sarasota County hospitals and the county government has triggered a lobbying battle over the laws creating Sarasota Memorial Hospital and its tax authority. Three for-profit facilities -- Doctors Hospital of Sarasota, Englewood Community Hospital and Venice Regional Medical Center -- bill the county $37 million for their costs of caring for poor and uninsured patients since late 2008. |
| Latest outrage: home-care scams Posted: 12/7/2009 © Associated Press A new report says scams in Miami- Dade brought half a billion dollars in Medicare payments for home health-care into the county last year, more than the entire rest of the nation combined. Many "patients" got big-screen TVs or free maid service. |
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