Charles Inlander's voice filled with anger as he discussed...
While the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA") addressed the concerns of millions of Americans regarding their health care, the drafters failed to consider a major issue with regard to debt collection. The Act's privacy provisions create a conflict with the debt-validation requirement of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA"). Specifically, if third parties such as debt-collection agencies are involved in the debt-collection process, patient-debtors cannot receive validation for their medical debts under the current law without sacrificing their privacy to such an agency. This Note offers several alternatives to ameliorate or eradicate the problem, thereby maximizing both patient privacy and consumer protection. Congress should address this ...
.... Drahozal, supra note 4 (citing CHARLES B. INLANDER & ED WEINER, TAKE THIS BOOK TO THE HOS...
BY BILL SIZEMORE THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
... have yielded an incomplete picture, said Charles Inlander, director of the Peoples Medical Society,...
Includes related articles on vertical integration, customer satisfaction, growth and managing physicians - Managing Managed Care: The Quest for Quality - Industry Overview The managed care industry is enjoying its third generation of growth. In 1995, an estimated 58 million Americans were enrolled in health maintenance organizations (HMOs) while premiums reached $106 billion. By the year 2000, these figures are forecasted to rise to 113 million and $252 billion, respectively. However, while the concept of managed care is expected to gain wider acceptance, the industry itself faces a turbulent period which experts believe many current service providers will not survive. At present, HMOs have to contend with increasing demands for better but cheaper service from their corporate customers...
.... Charles Inlander . RELATED ARTICLE: On Growth . Need for s...
PHILADELPHIA - From simple mix-ups to fatal overdoses, hospital patients on average fall victim to a medication mistake every single day, according to a new report. Nationwide, 1.5 million people are harmed from drug errors, more than half of them in nursing homes, said the Institute of Medicine report released Wednesday.
... supplements and vitamins, said Charles Inlander, a consumer advocate in Allentown, Pa., who sat on...
Charles C. Platt, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP, New... 7 As the Second Circuit noted inLander: "To illustrate the limited reach of SLUSA, it is ...
... management of their health care," said Charles Inlander, medical consumer author and president of...
.... Charles Inlander, a leading consumer health advocate and f...
Doctors have become experts at maximizing their own income at the expense of their patients. A satire on the physician as Vulture Medicus is presented.
...Our job is not to be a victim. . Mr. Inlander is president, People's Medical Society, Allentown,...
Influenza is associated with about 20,000 deaths in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The illness - with symptoms such as body aches, nausea, fever and chills - is caused by viruses that are spread through the air or by direct contact, such as shaking hands with an infected person.
...Charles B. Inlander, president of the People's Medical Soc...
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