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Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back Michele Simon See book keywords and concepts

As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, CCF is legally obligated to disclose certain financial information to the IRS and make it publicly available. CCF has complied with this requirement, but it has refused to reveal the identity of its funders. According to the Center for Media and Democracy, which inspected CCF's IRS filings for the year 2000, CCF declared a total income of $514,321, almost all of which came from seven unnamed donors.

Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs Stephen Fried See book keywords and concepts

They hired a private investigator who petitioned UCSF for financial information about Dong and looked into whether someone at the school had leaked the study to the manufacturers of Levoxine. When Dong still wouldn't back down and her paper was just about to appear in JAMA, Boots invoked an obscure clause in the research contract that said she needed the company's written permission to publish the results. It was a hardball move, but it was a hardball time for the company: Boots was in negotiations to be sold to the German conglomerate BASF AG for $1.

Making Them Pay: How to Get the Most from Health Insurance and Managed Care Rhonda D. Orin See book keywords and concepts

THE FEE SCHEDULE The most important financial information behind any health plan is how much the health plan is willing to pay for medical treatments and services. How much for an initial doctor's visit? How much for delivering a baby? How much for open-heart surgery? These questions are critical for both managed care plans and for typical indemnity plans. Fees typically are paid based on a uniform coding system maintained by the American Medical Association. The codes used are called CPT codes, which stands for "current procedural terminology.

But it's easier than you think, especially because most plans have summary pages where you can find all of this financial information in one place. And it's a whole lot cheaper to do it this way than it is to get stuck with the wrong insurance policy. 3-30-11-C RALL © 1997 Ted Rail. Reprinted with permission of UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE. All rights reserved. "Open Season" Is Like Baseball Season: Three Strikes, and You're Out My husband and I had a bright idea a few years back. We decided to change our health plan during the office's "open season.

He couldn't think of anything except for what the insurer requested: financial information that showed he still was making money (and that didn't show that his postaccident income resulted from late payments for services he had performed before the accident). It only took one letter to get a complete reversal. The solution lay in finding records that proved his medical practice was basically destroyed by the accident.

The Truth About Hormone Replacement Therapy: How to Break fee from the Medical Myths of Menopause National Women's Health Network See book keywords and concepts

U.S. nonprofits, including a copy of the contributions form that they must send annually to the Internal Revenue Service. The National Women's Health Network has been called "the only virgin at the orgy" for its policy against taking drug company money. The Network is not the only "virgin," but the list of others is short.

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