Pelzman's Picks: Inside the Biggest Healthcare Fraud Case

• The government's biggest healthcare fraud case ever targets a Florida nursing home system, Eric Lichtblau writes in The New York Times ~ U.S. Says Florida Network Defrauded Medicare and Medicaid of Over $1 Billion
• Physicians in leadership roles should continue to treat patients, Allan S. Detsky, MD, PhD, and Michael A. Gropper, MD, write in Annals of Internal Medicine ~ Why Physician Leaders of Health Care Organizations Should Participate in Direct Patient Care
• New FDA regulations on e-cigarettes raise an important question: "do these devices deliver a recreational drug or a medicine?" Jennifer Abbasi asks in JAMA ~ FDA Extends Authority to e-Cigarettes: Implications for Smoking Cessation?
• Sherry Glied and colleagues analyze how healthcare revenue is distributed across the health system in Health Affairs ~ Where The Money Goes: The Evolving Expenses Of The US Health Care System
• Anish Koka, MD, explores how our healthcare system is broken in The Health Care Blog ~ The Doctors Club
• "Why do fat people often develop serious and sometimes life-threatening medical conditions?" Gina Kolata asks in The New York Times ~ Skinny and 119 Pounds, but With the Health Hallmarks of Obesity
• When planning to travel overseas, you should consider your medical needs and how best to protect your health, David O. Freedman, MD, and colleagues write in New England Journal of Medicine ~ Medical Considerations before International Travel
• The U.S. government will begin publishing star ratings on the quality of more than 3,600 hospitals, Jordan Rau writes in Kaiser Health News ~ Medicare Prepares To Go Forward With New Hospital Quality Ratings

Fred N. Pelzman, MD, of Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates and weekly blogger for MedPage Today, follows what's going on in the world of primary care medicine. Pelzman's Picks is a compilation of links to blogs, articles, tweets, journal studies, opinion pieces, and news briefs related to primary care that caught his eye.

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Pelzman's Picks: Inside the Biggest Healthcare Fraud Case