The Plot of the CareFusion/ Dr Denham/ NQF/ ABIM/ Dr Cassel Case Thickens Even More - Current NQF and Previous ABIM CEO Found to be Long-Term Premier Inc Board Member, Resigns from that Board

The plot of the CareFusion/ Dr Denham/ NQF/ Leapfrog Group case (as we previously entitled it)  just will not stop thickening.Background To summarize the events up to our last post on the subject:   -  The case became public with an apparently routine legal settlement between CareFusion and the US Department of Justice -  The CareFusion settlement for $40.1 million was made in response to allegations that kickbacks were made to promote ChloraPrep, a solution meant for preoperative and other health care skin cleaning-  The Department of Justice news release also alleged that payments were made to a corporation called Health Care Concepts to conceal kickbacks made to its owner, Dr Charles Denham-  The implication was that Dr Denham was supposed to influence a standard writing committee run by the National Quality Forum, a well known organization that promotes quality improvement, issues authoritative practice standards, a form of clinical practice guidelines, and has contracts with the US government for quality of care activities-  The draft of the standard to prevent surgical site infection written by the committee allegedly included the use of ChloraPrep, although mention of that specific medication was removed in a revision-  The Department of Justice alleged that the standard was based on a journal article sponsored by Cardinal Health, from which CareFusion split, and which may have been manipulated by its sponsor-...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: ABIM conflicts of interest Dr Christine Cassel group purchasing organizations National Quality Forum Premier Inc Source Type: blogs