Subject: Medicare

• Whistleblower Wins Suit, Even Without Feds' Help

  August 26, 2008

• Texas Continues To Shine At Being Uninsured

  August 26, 2008

• Nowhere to Land

  Crisis care for the mentally ill crumbles under the weight of not enough money, too much beauracracy

  August 24, 2000

• A Figure to Die For

  Community Health Systems cashed in big on the stomach stapling rage. It almost cost Kaye Parsley her life.

  January 2, 2003

• Gloom And Doom For Uninsured Texas Children

  November 3, 2008

• Dying for Dollars

  February 17, 1994

• Psychotic Reaction

  October 6, 1994

• Why Die?

  November 24, 1994

• Diagnosis

  July 6, 1995

• Letters

  August 3, 1995

• On the Ropes

  May 30, 1996

• Malpractice

  September 26, 1996

• What's Driving Miss Shelia?

  February 20, 1997

• Holistic Touch

  July 17, 1997

• The President's Analyst

  April 30, 1998

• Methodist Hospital Gets Hit For Medicaid Fraud

  Seal courtesy DOJUsually when the Justice Department announces the settlement of a Medicaid-fraud case, it's a small-time operation dealing with wheelchairs or even adult diapers.Not today.Today they've nabbed a nearly-$10 million settlement out of Methodist Hospital here for defrauding the federal program.The US Attorney's office announcement said: The government alleged that, between January 2001 and August 2003, Methodist improperly inflated charges for inpatient and outpatient care to make i

  March 26, 2009

• Out On A Limb Over Rosharon, For A Good Cause

  Photo by davemasterking2000If you happen to be driving through Rosharon Saturday and see 50 skydivers headed toward you, don't panic - it's not Red Dawn come to life. And don't freak out over the fact that they all just happen to be amputees, 'cause it's not a coincidence: It's the second annual Airborne Amputee Skydive, sponsored by Houston-based Limbs of Love, a group that raises money to give prosthetics to folks who aren't insured, or whose insurance companies think that losing a limb just a

  March 26, 2009

• News of the Weird

  August 12, 1999

• Workers Comp and Rescued Dogs

  Mutual Decisions

  November 27, 2008

• Bad Faith and Texas Mutual Insurance

  November 13, 2008

• Mental Anguish at Texas West Oaks Hospital

  Go to this private psychiatric facility, and you might be helped. Or you might be shut in a room all alone and end up like Amanda, with a broken arm. Or dead.

  May 8, 2008

• TAX TIME!

  SPECIAL DÍA DE LOS IMPUESTOS EDITION

  April 10, 2008

• Women's Movement

  Ladies take the lead in Houston Ballet's Women@Art

  September 9, 2004

• Mail Call

  Unhappy Customer

  May 3, 2007

• Taking Care

  Margie Hill goes home and CPS learns about directory assistance

  April 19, 2007

• Whose Best Interests?

  Margie Hill got sick, became a ward of the county and was moved to a nursing home. Son Marvin wants her back home. But she can't get out.

  January 25, 2007

• Tale of Two Cities

  Catholic priest John Chinh Tran re-created Vietnam's Thai Xuan Village in Houston with an iron hand. These days his control is slipping away.

  December 15, 2005

• A Gap in Coverage

  Critics of GoldStar ambulance service say it's late to emergencies, cares for profits over patients, and doctors its books. But without it, there's nothing.

  July 14, 2005

• Million-Hour Madness

  Religious charities discover state welfare reform savings are based in part on their backs

  April 28, 2005

• Worker Benefits?

  Houston's NAACP faces a protest of its own when it takes sides in a divorce case

  December 9, 2004

• Ground Zero

  Houston's been the No. 1 city in America in the obesity crisis. But hype doesn't mean help.

  November 18, 2004

• Moby for Veep

  John Kerry should hit the decks for his running mate

  March 25, 2004

• Advantage: MILFs

  Women 35 and up serve it up

  March 4, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  November 13, 2003

• A Hanging Offense

  Did the Devereux Treatment Center provide the care Cecilia Garrett needed or did it drive the young teenager to her death?

  April 24, 2003

• Rock-A-Baby Bye-Bye

  A state program was supposed to give moms a safe place to drop off unwanted newborns. Then why are so many babies still ending up in the trash?

  April 25, 2002

• Letters, Week of November 22

  Fed Up with Feds, Still Reeling, Diabolical Docs

  November 22, 2001

• Paying the Price

  Hospital district officials wanted a simple one-sentence policy on immigrant health care. What they got instead was a criminal probe and plenty of politics.

  October 11, 2001

• Methadone Meltdown

  Dr. Amos and Cecilia Ozumba ran Houston Maintenance Clinic for four years. Have they finally run it into the ground?

  April 27, 2000

• Warded Off

  She got into a suspect nursing home. And the probate system got most of her money.

  April 20, 2000

• No Secrets

  Health providers, insurance companies, researchers and government agencies all want your medical records. And it doesn't matter whether you want them released or not.

  November 25, 1999

• Trouble in Mind

  Texas's mentally impaired used to go to treatment centers. Now they go to prison.

  July 8, 1999

• Old and In The Way

  December 16, 1993

• Cover Me

  July 16, 2009

• Houston Is Epicenter Of Big Medicare-Fraud Sweep

  ​Houston is at the center of a big sweep against Medicare fraud announced today by the feds. A grand jury here issued indictments involving more than $16 million in fraud, and agents went out today and arrested 32 people in Houston, New York, Boston and Louisiana.Sayeth the feds: The Strike Force operations in Houston have identified the primary fraud schemes as those related to false billing for "arthritis kits," power wheelchairs and enteral feeding supplies.According to the indictments, the

  July 29, 2009

• Conservatives Defend Whole Foods While Liberals Boycott

  Photo by That Other Paper​Irate progressives are calling for a boycott of Whole Foods after the health food store chain's founder John Mackey came out against Obama's efforts at reforming health care in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece last week. After stating his fears about socialized medicine, Mackey made a few suggestions of his own. "Recent scientific and medical evidence shows that a diet consisting of foods that are plant-based, nutrient dense and low-fat will help prevent and

  August 17, 2009

• It's Only Going To Get Hotter In Houston, Group Says

  ​Think it's hot in Houston now? Just want for....(switch to stentorian voice)...The Future!!!!That's the word from Climate Central, a non-profit scientific group that apparently believes all this climate-change mumbo-jumbo the socialist-fascists are trying to throw at us when they're not trying to force government health care and take away our Medicare.In a new study released today, Climate Central says that by the year 2050, Houston will be like Phoenix in that half the days of a typical Augu

  August 20, 2009

• Good Lord, Was Tom DeLay Drunk On Hardball?

  Sugar Land's Tom DeLay has wormed his way back into the spotlight lately via the announcement he'll be on Dancing With The Stars.He showed up on Chris Matthews' Hardball the other day, and we've got to ask: Was he drunk? (DeLay, not Matthews.)Check out the video for yourself.Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Sure, he makes the kinds of statements that anyone with a blood-alcohol level of .14 would make -- protesters "dumped" quadriplegics in front of him

  August 21, 2009