Thursday, January 26, 2012

Morgellons saga continues

http://www.healthsciences.okstate.edu/morgellons/links.cfm
Dr. Randy Wymore audio (9:43) ...cal

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ingenix
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Fraud lawsuits
On February 13, 2008, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced the state was expanding an investigation that focused on Ingenix. After an initial six-month investigation, the AG filed lawsuit against Ingenix. At a briefing held on February 13, Cuomo stated, "This involves fraud in the hundreds of millions of dollars, affecting thousands and thousands of families ... Too many people have been hurt. It has to stop. We believe there was an industry wide scheme perpetrated by some of the nation’s largest health insurance companies to defraud consumers."

How the fraud was alleged to work

In describing the alleged fraud committed by Ingenix, Mr. Cuomo described a typical scenario, where an out-of-network doctor might charge $200 for an office visit but is told that the going rate is $77. The insurer would then normally pay only 80% of that figure, leaving the patient responsible for the difference of about $138. At the heart of the state's lawsuit was how that $77 rate got set in the first place: the number was derived from a database of claims data created and maintained by Ingenix, and sold to other insurers.
In responding to the Attorney General's allegations, UnitedHealth said it believed it was delivering "dependable database tools." Moreover, the company claimed that "the reference data is rigorously developed, geographically specific, comprehensive and organized using a transparent methodology that is very common in the health care industry." However, Linda Lacewell, who headed AG Cuomo's healthcare industry taskforce, accused UnitedHealth of lying to consumers. She described the Ingenix database as "garbage in, garbage out." Another source reported Ms. Lacewell's description of Ingenix and UnitedHealth's use of data as "deception, manipulation of data and outright fraud."[4]

Additional health insurers implicated in suit

Cigna and Aetna were also the targets of lawsuits over the Ingenix database, which was apparently used by many large health insurers to determine reimbursement rates. The lawsuits were filed by the American Medical Association (AMA) as well as several state associations, which claimed that the Ingenix database was rigged to underpay doctors on out-of-network claims for more than a decade

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/money/consumer-protection/big-brother-is-watching/overview/index.htm
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3. Your health history

The MIB consumer file database is maintained by the MIB Group, a consortium of 470 U.S. and Canadian companies that sell life, health, disability income, critical illness, and long-term-care insurance. Two other companies, Milliman and Ingenix, compile your prescription drug history from databases maintained by pharmacy chains and prescription benefit managers, and sell IntelliScript and MedPoint reports to insurers.

Mr. Andrew Slavitt's Opening Statement during the Health IT Hearing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-wSMjMe0HQ

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/11/11/us-food-monsanto-idUSTRE5AA05520091111?pageNumber=3
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http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/tag/osu-center-for-the-investigation-of-morgellons-disease/
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Depending on what’s loaded in the spray, as well as particle size, aerial spraying impacts health in a variety of ways. Once inhaled or absorbed through the skin, particles can impede gastrointestinal, respiratory, autoimmunity, neurological and cognitive functions.

http://www.insurancenewsnet.org/html/HealthInsurance/2009/1027/Ingenix-s-Close-Ties-with-the-Health-Insurance-Industry.html
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http://www.jstor.org/pss/3146083
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http://books.google.com/books/about/Water_supply.html?id=j8wInnIMFxAC
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Water supply:

economics, technology, and policy
Front Cover
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http://news.yahoo.com/morgellons-mysterious-skin-disease-under-microscope-164831877--abc-news.html
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http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2010/07/private-equity-group-carlyle-buys.html
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The Carlyle Group announced two globe-spanning, health-related deals Monday, one in Australia and the second in Brazil, as the District-based private equity firm continues to be one of the most active in the buyout business. 
Carlyle and fellow private equity giant TPG won a bidding war for Australia's Healthscope, a big player in that country's hospital sector, over rival Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in a deal that valued the health-care company at $2.35 billion.
http://anh-europe.org/news/morgellonsgmo-link-makes-it-into-the-news-again
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ST. LOUIS | Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:22am EST
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, had only months to live when he received a visit from an old friend, Rob Fraley, chief of technology for Monsanto Co.Borlaug, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work increasing food production in starving areas of the globe, welcomed Fraley to his Dallas home, where the two men sipped coffee and tea and discussed a subject dear to their hearts: the future of agriculture and the latest challenges of feeding the human race.
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