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July 17, 1997
Holistic Touch
Some ex-patients credit the mind-body therapy of New Age healer JoAnne Mandel with saving their lives. Others say her compassion stopped at the bottom line.
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April 30, 1998
The President's Analyst
Some ex-patients credit the mind-body therapy of New Age healer JoAnne Mandel with saving their lives. Others say her compassion stopped at the bottom line.
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September 4, 2008
Michael Gates Gill
The author of How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else tells all
News
June 6, 2002
Con's Con
A contained experiment in Medicaid finally gets uncovered
News
November 22, 2001
Letters, Week of November 22
Fed Up with Feds, Still Reeling, Diabolical Docs
News
October 11, 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.
News
August 2, 2001
Rx for Failure?
MHMRA restricts Medicaid services at mental health clinic pharmacies
News
April 27, 2000
Methadone Meltdown
Dr. Amos and Cecilia Ozumba ran Houston Maintenance Clinic for four years. Have they finally run it into the ground?
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April 20, 2000
Warded Off
She got into a suspect nursing home. And the probate system got most of her money.
News
August 19, 1999
Dangerous Deficits
Mental health cuts may come back to haunt the public
News
December 16, 1993
Old and In The Way
How slow turnings of tiny bureaucratic gears grind up real Texans
News
July 16, 2009
Cover Me
Kathern Cathey thought she had an insurance policy that would save her life. Not exactly.
Blogs
July 29, 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 ... More >>
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August 17, 2009
Conservatives Defend Whole Foods While Liberals Boycott
Photo by That Other PaperIrate 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 med ... More >>
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January 21, 2010
Local Group Leads Charge To Limit "Harmful Substances," a/k/a What Houston Is Known For
If you like the idea of lower health care costs and are not one of the twisted few who are philosophically opposed to breathing cleaner air, there's a good chance you'll be excited to know that there's an effort underway to update the federal policies which govern toxic chemicals.Earlier today, t ... More >>
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July 13, 2010
Sandra Thurman Patino: Motorized Wheelchair Scam FAIL, Loses $1M & A Cadillac To Feds
The "Jazzy" model, no kiddingSandra Thurman Patino, 46, had a pretty good deal going with a Medicare scam involving motorized wheelchairs, but now she's headed to federal prison for four years.Plus she's giving up the $1.1 million she had in the bank, and a Cadillac, to the feds.Patino was senten ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
FAIR-y Tales: Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?
The "Jazzy" model, no kiddingSandra Thurman Patino, 46, had a pretty good deal going with a Medicare scam involving motorized wheelchairs, but now she's headed to federal prison for four years.Plus she's giving up the $1.1 million she had in the bank, and a Cadillac, to the feds.Patino was senten ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Ruth Netscher: Whistleblower Claims UT-Health Science Center Used Mental-Health Patients As Guinea Pigs
Research done without consent, suit saysA former doctor and faculty member at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston claims that she was fired because she blew the whistle on other doctors who used mental health patients as research guinea pigs without proper or legal consent. ... More >>
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January 10, 2011
Patrick Ita: The Genius Who Combined Medicare and Katrina Fraud
Like combining chocolate and peanut butterIn the Southern District of Texas, U.S. Attorneys often deal with two kinds of fraud: scams involving a) Medicare, or b) Hurricanes Katrina or Rita. It takes a special genius to combine the two, and apparently Patrick Ita is that man. Prosecutors un ... More >>
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February 14, 2011
Lack Of Social Safety Net Tying Many Musicians To Day Jobs
"I fantasize sometimes that my musical career would hit gold and help us escape these grim realities, but it's not something I really expect to happen." There are few issues in the current political climate more fraught with contention than whether or not the U.S. government will take a more ... More >>
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April 8, 2011
Bassey & Rose Essien: Father-Daughter Team With Million-Dollar Adult-Diaper Scam
In this family, missy, we scam the government with adult diapers!!!Keeping things in the family, passing knowledge from one generation to the next: It's a heartwarming American tradition, especially when it involves ripping off Medicaid for more than a million dollars with an adult-diaper sca ... More >>
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April 29, 2011
Planned Parenthood: Punched in the Uterus by Misguided Texas Senate
More bad news for women who rely on Planned Parenthood.A Texas Senate subcommittee wrangled the vulvas of Texas women into a chokehold yesterday with its latest assault on Planned Parenthood. Republican Senator Robert Deuell, who is a physician, introduced a bill to a three-member subcommitte ... More >>
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May 18, 2011
Doris Vinitski: Paid $1,000-Per-Patient Kickbacks To Recruit For Medicare Fraud
Calling all "patients"How lucrative can ripping off Medicare be? Lucrative enough that one scamster was offering up to $1,000 a patient to "recruiters" who sent customers her way. Doris Vinitski, 46, the owner of Onward Medical Supply, signed up the patients and then started billing Medicare ... More >>
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May 31, 2011
Christina Clardy: West U Doctor, Two Others Convicted in $30 Million Medicaid Fraud
Christina Clardy among those convicted.Christina Clardy, a 61-year-old West U doctor, was convicted with two other people of running a massive Medicaid-and-money-laundering scam that somehow involved Nigerian tankers, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced today. Kenneth Anokam, 56, and Niger ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Jodi Leonore Latson: Quite the Alleged Medicare Defrauder
Houston makes the fraud lineup.If you're going to defraud the U.S. government, go big. It's not like they're going to miss a stray $62 million or so. Thus was the thinking of Houstonian Jodi Leonore Latson, 45, who -- unfortunately for her -- ended up as one of the bigger fish caught in a na ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
Money-Hungry MLB: Author Says the League is Treating Some Retirees Like Garbage
David Clyde: $10k richer but still no MLB retirement benefits for the HoustonianSpecific Major League Baseball retirees are getting the shaft, according to the author of the controversial A Bitter Cup of Coffee: How MLB and the Players Association Threw 874 Retirees a Curve. The crux of Dou ... More >>
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January 19, 2012
State Settles With Johnson & Johnson Over Risperdal: $158 Million
The $158 million Risperdal settlement does nothing for foster children who are still put on antipsychotics for no clear reason.A drug company accused of fraudulently promoting the antipsychotic Risperdal for use in Texas's Medicaid system has settled a state Attorney General's lawsuit for $15 ... More >>
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January 30, 2012
Ike Odelugo: Concert Promoter Gets Six Years for Medicare Fraud
Ike Odelugo was raking in millions.Aghaegbuna "Ike" Odelugo of Sugar Land is a concert promoter, we're told, but that can be a rough business to make a buck in these days. Ripping off Medicare, however, can be a breeze -- until you get caught. Odelugo, 39, was sentenced to six years in fede ... More >>