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Medicare

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2006

    A Little Bit Pregnant

    Whoever said you can't be a little bit pregnant never reckoned with the can-do spirit of the Bush administration. As the Washington Post reports: New federal guidelines ask all females capable of conceiving a baby to treat themselves -- and to be treated by the health care system -- as pre-pregnant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2006

    Speaking of congressional races ...

    Check out this little ray of sunshine from Bloomberg (the news service, not the mayor): Candidates Ignore $1.35 Trillion Minimum Tax `Bomb' By Ryan J. Donmoyer Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Congressional candidates this fall are furiously debating Iraq, Medicare and extending tax cuts. Most are staying qu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2005

    Mea Culpa, We Fuck-Uppa

    There were two HUUUUGE mistakes in the virtual droolings below. First, in KEN CALVERT'S MOD SQUAD, we reported that OC Blog has always been behind state Senator John Campbell (R-Richy Richland) from the beginning of his quest for the 48th Congressional District seat. A close follower of Clockwork an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2006

    MoveOn vs. Rohrabacher

    This just in, from MoveOn.org: Rep. Rohrabacher Accepts $40,785.00 From Drug Companies; Puts Drug Company Profits Ahead of Seniors Huntington Beach MoveOn Members Urge Rep. Dana Rohrabacher to Cancel May 15th Medicare Sign-Up Deadline Constituents will hold "Caught Red-Handed Check Deliveries" out ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2008

    To Do Tonight 6/4

    Club Abstract, 9 p.m. house, trance and electro. Hogue Barmichael's 3950 Campus Dr. Newport Beach CA 92660 949-261-6270 DJ Josh, 9 p.m. Chill Kitsch Bar 891 Baker St., Ste. A10 Costa Mesa, CA 92626 714-546-8580 The Ethnic and Artistic Sources that Inspired the Spanish Colonial Architecture of So ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2008

    There's Something About Pacific Health

    Remember the wandering homeless patient we wrote about a few months back who had been shipped from an Orange County hospital to L.A.'s Skid Row and dumped there? Well such incidents have been the subject of a federal investigation initiated in 2006 after the LAPD began looking into reports of hospi ... More >>

  • News

    September 6, 2001

    Orange Countys Real Bad Boy

    George Argyros connected to yet another alleged business scam

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Will The Feds Come After Tustin Hospitals Next?

    All the key swindlers in the homeless patient dumping scheme that sucked hundreds of thousands of dollars from Medicare and Medi-Cal programs in fradulent claims last year have been indicted -- except, that is, for the bad boys in Tustin who were also allegedly involved in the scheme. Last August a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    State Taxman Pops Buena Park Doctor and Wife for Alleged Fraud

     The state Franchise Tax Board (FTB) reports today that physician John S. Han, 61, and his wife Sonya Han, 55, were arrested on felony counts of Medicare fraud and filing fraudulent state income tax returns after a search of their Buena Park home. According to FTB special agents, Mr. Han ... More >>

  • Columns

    April 10, 2008

    [¡Ask a Mexican!®] Special Dia de los Impuestos Edition

     The state Franchise Tax Board (FTB) reports today that physician John S. Han, 61, and his wife Sonya Han, 55, were arrested on felony counts of Medicare fraud and filing fraudulent state income tax returns after a search of their Buena Park home. According to FTB special agents, Mr. Han ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 27, 2007

    Letters

    Add in a completely substandard produce section and meat that I could find cheaper elsewhere, and you have the perfect storm of crap

  • News

    June 26, 2003

    To Your Corporate Health

    Add in a completely substandard produce section and meat that I could find cheaper elsewhere, and you have the perfect storm of crap

  • Columns

    December 26, 2002

    Letters

    Add in a completely substandard produce section and meat that I could find cheaper elsewhere, and you have the perfect storm of crap

  • Columns

    July 20, 2006

    Letters

    'He is smart enough to realize if he didnt get out then, he may have awoken a fortysomething with crazy-colored hair and a tattoo of dragons circle jerking'

  • Columns

    April 13, 2006

    Immigration? We've Got Bigger Problems

    Why our noncitizens are our best citizens

  • News

    December 29, 2005

    Mr. Rooney Goes to UCI

    Bring me the head of the head head doctor!

  • News

    October 28, 2004

    Credit Where Credit is Due

    George W. Bushs most ingrinable moments on DVD

  • Features

    October 7, 2004

    Burning Bush: The Issue

    A year in Dubya-dumping by his conservative critics . . . and Howard Stern

  • Features

    October 7, 2004

    59 Reasons Why Bush Sucks

    Why youd have to be a freaking idiot to vote for this guy

  • Columns

    August 26, 2004

    No, You Shut Up

    Artists are Americans, too, You Jackasses

  • News

    July 1, 2004

    Burning Bush

    The presidents conservative critics

  • Unknown

    June 17, 2004

    The presidents conservative critics

    The presidents conservative critics

  • Columns

    April 22, 2004

    Diary of a Mad County

    The presidents conservative critics

  • Columns

    November 6, 2003

    Letters

    The presidents conservative critics

  • News

    January 24, 2002

    Bad Company

    Six of Americas worst corporations are your neighbors!

  • Columns

    October 4, 2001

    War!!!

    But first a quick workout

  • Features

    March 15, 2001

    Dumbbell

    Eric Bechler committed a perfect murderand then bragged about it

  • Columns

    September 11, 1997

    Singled Out

    GOP, Dems join to screw Generation X

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Rally Tonight Opposes Obama and Town-Hall Criers in Health-Care Debate

    All for one and one for OC Healthcare for All.​OC Healthcare for All and other groups peeved about the current health-care debate march to the Ronald Reagan Federal Building in downtown Santa Ana tonight and rally in support of the following message:Both sides--the ones personified by President Ba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Santa Ana-Based Street Gang Implicated in $25 Million Medicare Fraud Cases

    ​A Long Beach man and a Santa Ana street gang have been implicated in an alleged Medicare fraud schemes that resulted in approximately $25 million in fraudulent bills to the Medicare program, various federal authorities announced this morning. In all, 18 defendants, most of whom reside ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    The "Irvine 11" Fights the Power

    ​As they fill out their AARP membership cards, '60s burnouts can rejoice that a group of campus agitators has at last come along to rival the infamous Chicago Seven.Mamas and papas, introducing the "Irvine 11"! Something's happening here, and what it is ain't exactly kosher. The Irvine 11 are the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2010

    Duane Roberts, Anaheim Activist, Announces U.S. Sentate Run

    Roberts​If a former community organizer can become president of the United States, why can't a community organizer become a U.S. senator?Longtime Anaheim activist Duane Roberts announced that he will file papers with the Orange County Registrar of Voters today to put his name on the June primary b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2010

    Phu Tan "Peter" Luong, Accused of Using Wheelchair Scam Funds to Start Business Hawking Dangerous Boner Pills

    ​Phu Tan Luong, a 55-year-old health-care fraudster who moved from Huntington Beach to a federal prison cell in Plano, Texas, where he is serving 10 years for a scam involving wheelchairs and hospital beds, has now been charged with distributing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    Are You With Me, Dr. Fu? Not So Much

    ​Xinming Fu, a 48-year-old Irvine physician, has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for his role in a $15 million health care fraud scheme that plied the elderly and mentally ill with candy, doughnuts and cigarettes to get them to undergo unnecessary respiratory treatments that were b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    National Cardio Labs Settles Whistleblower Suit for $3.6 Million

    ​An Orange County heart-monitoring service will pay $3.6 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that alleged the company defrauded government health care programs, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles announced. National Cardio Labs LLC was based in Santa Ana, Aliso Viejo and then Irvin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2010

    Progressive Counterparts to Teabaggers Brown Bag It at Local Congressional Offices Today

    ​House members are being criticized for leaving Washington, D.C., without a federal budget vote to campaign in their districts before the November election. Some Orange County Congress people, like their brethren around the country, can escape the scorn by sharing a brown bag lunch at their distri ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

    Unauthorized immigrants make up just more than 3 percent of the U.S. population. But they're accused of sucking up public benefits and dodging taxes

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Mexican Macroeconomics

    Do undocumented migrants steal jobs from American workers?

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Anaheim Hills Cosmetic Surgery Center Comes Under an Unfriendly Light

    ​It's enough to put a permanent frown in your forehead.After a plastic surgeon through the courts successfully challenged the state's authority to regulate surgery centers, California in 2007 stopped licensing such facilities that are at least partly owned by a licensed doctor. According to the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Eleanor Santiago, Irvine Doctor Charged in LA with Using Homeless to Bilk Medicare for Millions, Was Already Under Investigation for Giving Out Free Electric Wheelchairs

    ​Back in late October, headlines were made when Los Angeles authorities arrested a group of doctors for using homeless and mentally ill patients to fraudulently bilk Medicare and Medi-Cal for millions. Little noted locally, though, was that one of the doctors, Eleanor Melo Santiago Arthur, was an ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 16, 2010

    In Defense of New Mexico

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] And can gabachos shorten Spanish words?

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Investment Guru Sees Corinthian Colleges at Risk

    ​The chairman of a Boston-based investment-management firm predicts dark days ahead for Corinthian Colleges Inc. of Santa Ana.

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    State Report Blasts UC Irvine Dialysis Center; University Claims Recommendations in Place

    ​After a November inspection of UC Irvine's dialysis center, state regulators filed a 70-page report detailing poor oversight, unsanitary conditions and mistakes that put patient care and Medicare funding of the facility at risk.News of the report, posted by the Los Angeles Times today, prompted U ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Nurses Rally Against Government Healthcare and Social Security Cuts

    ​Just to be clear, the more than 100 registered nurses huddled around Irvine's Civic Center Plaza at high noon today are not there to implant a conscious into Larry Agran. The RNs are joining community activists to rally against any cuts to Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid.

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    Drop By Rep. Loretta Sanchez's Office At Noon To Tell Her How You Feel About The Debt-Ceiling Debate

    ​As the debt-ceiling debate trudges on in Washington, a liberal political action committee is taking to every nook and cranny of the country--including Garden Grove. In emails sent to their members, Moveon.org urges "every patriotic American" to show up outside Democratic congressional ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    Glen Justice, Local Oncologist, Sentenced to 18 Months For Health Care Fraud

    ​An Orange County oncologist, whose fraudulent health care schemes caused losses of up to $1 million, was sentenced to a year-and-a-half in federal prison yesterday.In a precious paradigm of irony, the 66-year-old doctor who pleaded guilty to five counts of health care fraud is named Glen Justice. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Hospital Workers Get Sent To Disney School to Learn Customer Service Skills

    Health in WalesWill these be our new doctors? ​Here's further proof that we live in a Disney world. No, not Disney World, the Orlando theme park, but a world run by the Disney megacorporation.  Kaiser Health News reports that a growing number of hospitals are turning to the Mouse for hel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Byung Ho Pak, 71-year-old Garden Grove Doctor, Arrested For Medicare Fraud During Nationwide Crackdown

    ​The feds arrested a 71-year-old doctor, who practiced in Garden Grove, as part of a nationwide Medicare fraud sting this week. Byung Ho Pak and Mary Lim, manager of Pak's Seoul East West Medical Center, allegedly billed Medicare for about $2 million worth of pyhsical therapy services that w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    Rep. John Campbell's Newport Beach Office Site of "Occupy Congress" Lunch Vigil Today

    ​The Progressive Democrats of America, who consider themselves comrades with the Occupy Wall Street movement, is now linking their "Brown Bag Vigils" of local congressional offices with the phenomenon.In fact, they have one scheduled at noon today in front of the Newport Beach district office of R ... More >>

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