Resources

Recommendations made to Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) 12th Scope of Work meeting on 4/20/2017.

The first 2 pages are is an article authored by Dr. Rogan which explains how Congress can lower the cost of drugs for Medicare beneficiaries by enacting a law to allow CMS to apply “least costly alternative” payment policy to selected drug groups. The following 17 pages are the included court case this article highlights.

A brief list of rules that highlight some of the difficulties and complexities in receiving payment for Medicare Services.

Dr. Rogan contributes a chapter to this book that divulges secrets of the industry, which keep it focused on its own economic needs to the detriment of public health.

Report & Presentation by Dr. Rogan for CNSU Medical Student Foundation

In February 2010, the Committee initiated an inquiry into reports that cardiologist Dr. Mark Midei (Midei) from the St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, MD may have implanted 585 stents which were medically unnecessary.

From 1992 and 2002, the cardiac program at this 240-bed, Tenet-owned hospital in Redding, was performing an extraordinarily high number of cardiac procedures.

Authored by Dr. Rogan and delivered to CMS in 1997, this presentation explains why hospitals across the country bought physician practices circa 1992-1998.