Time To Address How Justice Is Dispensed To Foster Children - Not One Penny Of $8 Billion Risperdal Settlement Will Go To Medicaid Billed Foster Kids Who Were Lab Rats

FUN FACT! REISPERDAL WAS TESTED ON FOSTER KIDS AS LAB RATS

ANOTHER FUN FACT! WHEN FOSTER BOYS WOULD GROW BREASTS, THEY WERE PRESCRIBED MORE SECOND GENERATION ANTIPSYCHOTROPICS TO STOP THE BREAST GROWTH

Just think.

Arnold & Itkin

Not one foster boy who was used as a lab rat and grew breasts will receive one red penny.

Not a dime.

Not even allowed access to their medical records upon aging out or escaping of foster care to a life on the streets, with breasts.

Why, you may ask?

Because no one cares and the attorneys will get the largest chunk of the damages, with the States in tow, launching more foreign Social Impact Bond programs, for more socioeconomic experiments, to their Public Private Partnerships, to fund campaigns.

I called Arnold & Itkin to ask if any foster kids would receive part of the settlement, or if the firm is going to work with the States Medicaid Fraud Control Units, but was told that the settlement was for their client.

One person, where not one penny goes to the Foster Kids who were used as lab rats, where the illegal use of Risperdal was billed to Medicaid, where not one penny will be reimbursed to the States.

The law firm did take my information and said they would call me back.

They asked with whom I was working.

I informed them that I would be reporting to the U.S. Department of Justice, who can then refer to the proper conjugal collaboration, just as soon as I publish.

Oh, and if a parent lodges a formal complaint, they are met with threats of termination of parental rights, to put the boy up for adoption to be sold, and continue being drugged above and beyond adult dosages.

Will the States Medicaid Fraud Control Units do anything?

Utah Attorney General Mark Schurtleff did, where his original complaint is below, but it seemed to get rather murky, and it seems to be ongoing.

Everything you wanted to know about Risperdal and foster kids if here.

Here is everything you wanted to know about drugging foster kids as lab rats - antipsychotropic experiments.

It is time to address how justice is dispensed to Foster Children.

Just keeping it real.

Johnson & Johnson to pay $8B in damages for Risperdal drug linked to female breast tissue in boys

Johnson & Johnson to pay $8B in damages for Risperdal drug linked to female breast tissue in boys

A Philadelphia jury on Tuesday awarded $8 billion in punitive damages against Johnson & Johnson and one if its subsidiaries over a drug the companies made that the plaintiff's attorneys say is linked to the abnormal growth of female breast tissue in boys.

Risperdal

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Philadelphia jury on Tuesday awarded $8 billion in punitive damages against Johnson & Johnson and one if its subsidiaries over a drug the companies made that the plaintiff's attorneys say is linked to the abnormal growth of female breast tissue in boys.

Johnson and Johnson immediately denounced the award after the jury's decision in the Court of Common pleas, saying it's "excessive and unfounded" and vowing immediate action to overturn it.

The antipsychotic drug Risperdal is at the center of the lawsuit, with the plaintiff's attorneys arguing it's linked to abnormal growth of female breast tissue in boys, an incurable condition known as gynecomastia.

Johnson & Johnson used an organized scheme to make billions of dollars while illegally marketing and promoting the drug, attorneys Tom Kline and Jason Itkin said in a statement.

Johnson & Johnson said in a statement on its website it was confident that the award would be overturned, calling it "grossly disproportionate" with the initial compensatory damage award and "a clear violation of due process."

Johnson & Johnson said the court's exclusion of key evidence left it unable to present a meaningful defense, including what they said was a drug label that "clearly and appropriately outlined the risks associated with the medicine" or Risperdal's benefits for patients with serious mental illness. They also said the plaintiff's attorneys failed to present any evidence of actual harm.

"This decision is inconsistent with multiple determinations outside of Philadelphia regarding the adequacy of the Risperdal labeling, the medicine's efficacy, and findings in support of the company," Johnson & Johnson said. "We will be immediately moving to set aside this excessive and unfounded verdict."

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CORBETT REPORT: The Crisis of Science - Predictive Modeling Crap

And to think I have been calling it crap for all this time.

What I get a kick out of predictive modeling crap is when you actually question the authors about their data in child welfare, which is typically the point when everyone in the room turns and looks at you with blank faces wondering why I am always such a horrible person for humiliating persons of authority in a public setting.

You are not supposed to question child welfare because it is a secret that they use foster kids as lab rats and they will terminate your parental rights if you grieve.

I just adore federally funded consortia symposiums because they always have really good catering and corporate goodie bags.

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American History of Using Kids as Lab Rats

This video is a brief lecture on the atrocities of the medical community.

Slaves, and their children, were used as medical experiments.

What is even worse, it still continues today with children in foster care.

Look at the over-medication of foster children with psychotropic medication and the ability to fraudulently bill Medicaid.  ..Foster kids are labrats used for clinical trials of psych meds.

Mythical theories are perpetuated in universities as workers in the child welfare industry are quick to label and judge the future liklihood of child abuse, based on the color of one's skin.

The disgusting history behind modern gynecology from Joy DeGruy Publications Read "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History...

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What About Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare?

Now, think of the level of Medicaid fraud in chlid welfare that could be stopped..#DOJ

Attorney General Loretta Lynch—joined by HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell (left) and FBI Director James B. Comey—speaks at a press conference announcing charges in the largest-ever health care fraud takedown in terms of both loss amounts and arrests.

Health Care Fraud Takedown
243 Arrested, Charged with $712 Million in False Medicare Billings

06/18/15

More than 240 individuals—including doctors, nurses, and other licensed professionals—were arrested this week for their alleged participation in Medicare fraud schemes involving approximately $712 million in false billings.

The arrests, which began Tuesday, were part of a coordinated operation in 17 cities by Medicare Fraud Strike Force teams, which include personnel from the FBI, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and local law enforcement. The Strike Force’s mission is to combat health care fraud, waste, and abuse.

At a press conference today at DOJ Headquarters in Washington, D.C., officials said the arrests constituted the largest-ever health care fraud takedown in terms of both loss amount and arrests.

“These are extraordinary figures,” said Attorney General Loretta Lynch. “They billed for equipment that wasn’t provided, for care that wasn’t needed, and for services that weren’t rendered.”

The charges are based on a variety of alleged fraud schemes involving medical treatments and services. According to court documents, the schemes included submitting claims to Medicare for treatments that were medically unnecessary and often not provided. In many of the cases, Medicare beneficiaries and other co-conspirators were allegedly paid cash kickbacks for supplying beneficiary information so providers could submit fraudulent bills to Medicare. Forty-four of the defendants were charged in schemes related to Medicare Part D, the prescription drug benefit program, which is the fastest growing component of Medicare and a growing target for criminals.

“There is a lot of money there, so there are a lot of criminals,” said FBI Director James B. Comey. He described how investigations leveraged technology to collect and analyze data, and rapid response teams to surge where the data showed the schemes were operating. “In these cases, we followed the money and found criminals who were attracted to doctors offices, clinics, hospitals, and nursing homes in search of what they viewed as an ATM.”

Since their inception in 2007, Strike Force teams in the nine cites where they operate have charged more than 2,300 defendants who collectively falsely billed Medicare more than $7 billion. Today’s announcement marked the first time that districts outside Strike Force locations have participated in a national takedown; those districts accounted for 82 of the arrests this week.

Here’s a look at some of the cases:

• In Miami, 73 were charged in schemes involving about $263 million in false billings for pharmacy, home health care, and mental health services.
• In Houston and McAllen, 22 were charged in cases involving more than $38 million. In one case, the defendant coached beneficiaries on what to tell doctors to make them appear eligible for Medicare services and then received payment for those who qualified. The defendant was paid more than $4 million in fraudulent claims.
• In New Orleans, 11 people were charged in connection with home health care and psychotherapy schemes. In one case, four defendants from two companies sent talking glucose monitors across the country to Medicare beneficiaries regardless of whether they were needed or requested. The companies billed Medicare $38 million and were paid $22 million.

“We will not stop here,” said HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell. “We will work tirelessly to prevent these programs from becoming targets and fight fraud wherever we find it.”

More than 900 law enforcement officials participated in the three-day sweep. Those arrested include 46 licensed medical professionals, including 19 doctors. Since 2007, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force has prosecuted more than 200 doctors and more than 400 medical professionals.

In fiscal year 2014, DOJ and HHS health care fraud and prevention efforts recovered nearly $3.3 billion. Over the past five years, DOJ specifically has recovered more than $15 billion in cases involving health care fraud. The average prison sentence in Strike Force cases in fiscal year 2014 was more than four years, though some prosecutions in recent years resulted have in sentences of 50 years.

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Idaho’s Medicaid payments for prescription drugs questioned

IDAHO EXAMINES TOP PRESCRIBERS

Idaho Statesman
Idaho’s Medicaid payments for prescription drugs questioned
But the state says Medicaid records don’t prove doctors are overprescribing
November 11, 2012
By AUDREY DUTTON

Idaho Medicaid Dick Armstrong addresses the State Legislature

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican who has assumed a role as a taxpayer watchdog, says some Idaho physicians have overprescribed antipsychotic drugs and addictive narcotics such as OxyContin to Medicaid patients.

“After an extensive review of prescribing habits of the serial prescribers of pain and mental health drugs in your state, I have concerns about the oversight and enforcement of Medicaid abuse in your state,” Grassley wrote in a Jan. 23 letter to Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Director Dick Armstrong.

Grassley asked for a list of the state’s top prescribers of certain drugs that have a high potential for addiction or that have been scrutinized for misuse in certain patient groups, such as in nursing homes.

“Mental health drugs continue to be prescribed at astounding rates, and pain management clinics are turning into a hotbed for black market painkillers,” he wrote.

The state sent Grassley records of prescribing activity by Medicaid providers for 2008 and 2009. Grassley called the numbers “shocking.” The state then sent him records for 2010 and 2011.

- One doctor wrote about 4,870 prescriptions in 2010 and 2011 for four of the antipsychotics, with Medicaid payments for them totaling $1.7 million.

- A nurse practitioner in 2008 wrote 106 OxyContin prescriptions totaling $42,768, and the following year a doctor wrote 102 OxyContin prescriptions for $56,737.

- Four Medicaid providers wrote more than 300 prescriptions each for the sedative Xanax in 2011.

- For one kind of drug, the atypical antipsychotic Abilify, Medicaid paid about $2.5 million for prescriptions written by 10 health care providers in 2011.

- Medicaid paid about $269,000 for the painkiller oxycodone prescribed by the most frequent providers in 2011.

The top prescribers represented only a fraction of the 11,000 to 18,000 medical providers who served Medicaid patients in those years.

The payments for their prescriptions made up a sizable share of the total spending in those years. The Medicaid program spent $61 million to $83 million per year on prescribed drugs between 2008 and 2011. The total billed to Medicaid for Abilify in 2008 by the top 10 prescribers was more than $1 million.

The most frequent prescribers for the eight drugs in question include two doctors who have been disciplined by the Idaho Board of Medicine for reasons unrelated to Grassley’s concerns. They also include doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants who have taken payments or gifts from drug companies since 2009. A few collected more than $10,000 for speaking and consulting work.

Grassley has sent similar letters to many other states. His office said it had no record of a response from Idaho as of last week, but the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare provided the Statesman a copy of its response sent in March.

“The number of prescriptions written by these prescribers … does not necessarily indicate overprescribing or inappropriate prescribing,” wrote Medicaid Administrator Paul Leary. Mental health or pain specialists will, by nature of their jobs, have more patients who need those drugs, he wrote.

Indeed, the top physician prescribers for the drugs were, in most cases, psychiatrists, pain specialists or cancer specialists.

Grassley asked the state to explain whether it monitors its Medicaid-billing doctors to make sure they don’t have black marks on their records. Leary said Medicaid does that only if it finds that a provider isn’t appropriately prescribing drugs.

Medicaid has no system to spot excessive prescription writing, but the Idaho Board of Pharmacy has a prescription-monitoring program and would be responsible for flagging overprescribers, Leary said.

A NARCOTIC PROBLEM

Though the Idaho Medicaid program does not oversee the people writing the prescriptions, it has identified a problem with drug-seeking patients and is working on ways to curb it.

If a patient is on Medicaid, he or she is restricted to a certain number of doses per day and prescriptions per month. More than 100 drugs require an authorization from Medicaid before they can be filled, Leary said.

The use of psychotropic drugs in certain Medicaid populations has prompted federal studies.

According to a report by the Government Accountability Office late last year, children in the foster care system were much more likely to be on at least one psychotropic drug — sometimes more than five at once. The office said federal guidance could help with state-run oversight of prescriptions for children.

That is something Idaho’s Medicaid program might be addressing.

“The Medicaid Pharmacy Program is … participating in a project with other areas of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and various community organizations to improve the use of psychotropic drugs in foster kids,” Leary wrote.

He added that he expects to set up a system for red-flagging possible misuse, making sure there is consent for treatment and getting prior authorization when necessary.

According to Medicaid data, about 24 percent of foster children were prescribed psychotropic drugs in 2008, compared with 7 percent of children not in foster care.

However, as the GAO noted, higher rates could be partly due to mental-health needs, traumatic life events and fragmented medical care of foster children compared with nonfoster children.

A federally mandated board in Idaho is looking at abuse-prone prescription drugs among the state’s Medicaid patients.

An October report profiled 150 patients who received the most narcotics through Medicaid in an eight-month period.

The average patient was on three opioid drugs — painkillers such as OxyContin — prescribed by four health care providers. They had been on the drugs for several years. The most common diagnoses were back pain, chronic pain and vertebrae disc problems. About 39 percent of them also had diagnosed problems with drug abuse.

When the board cross-referenced Idaho Board of Pharmacy information, it found that 30 percent of the high-narcotic Medicaid patients were also paying cash for separate prescriptions. The extra number of doses ranged from two to 4,275 in the eight-month span.

Idaho Medicaid is putting some new rules in place for certain narcotics to cut down on the potential for abuse, the report said. They include making sure that three less problematic drugs have failed to help a patient before the patient is switched to a narcotic such as OxyContin or Vicodin.

A panel appointed by Gov. Butch Otter recommended Friday that the Legislature broaden Idaho’s Medicaid program to cover more than 100,000 additional low-income residents.

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ABC NEWS – December 1, 2011 – Psychiatrists Put Kids at Risk With Mind-Altering Drugs

Actually, it is not really the psychiatrists who do the Axis III diagnosis of children.  Someone needs to check out what social workers and foster care case workers believe they have the power and expertise to do.  The psychiatrist will make chicken scratch signatures of the prescription pad at a rate that will allow the pseudo-doctor to easily rack up 200 plus patients a day.

The only thing the FDA or HHS will do is to firmly slap a pseudo-doctor on the wrist with a "no-more-naughty" reprimand letter.

ABC NEWS – December 1, 2011 – Psychiatrists Put Kids at Risk With Mind-Altering Drugs

Doctors are prescribing foster children drugs at doses beyond what the Food and Drug Administration has approved,
according to a new report by the federal Government Accountability Office. (Getty Images)

ABC
Doctors Put Foster Children at Risk With Mind-Altering Drugs
By BRINDA ADHIKARI, JOAN MARTELLI and SARAH KOCH
Dec. 1, 2011

Across America, doctors are putting foster children on powerful, mind-altering drugs at rates up to 13 times that of children in the general population. What’s more, doctors are prescribing foster children drugs at doses beyond what the Food and Drug Administration has approved, sometimes in potentially dangerous combinations, according to a new report by the federal Government Accountability Office.

“It’s just almost beyond comprehension,” said Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del., who asked for the GAO investigation. “We want the doctors and nurses that are prescribing these medicines to look at their behavior and think and ask this question. Are we doing something wrong here?”

In Florida, regulators have been grappling with that question since a 7-year-old boy, Gabriel Myers, killed himself in 2009 after being prescribed a powerful mix of psychotropic medication.

His psychiatrist, Dr. Sohail Punjwani, had, at different times, prescribed two drugs that carry black box labels — warning of the need to carefully monitor patients because of the increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in children, which call for careful monitoring. However, even though Gabriel visited Punjwani’s office seven times, his foster father said Gabriel usually only spent about five minutes talking to the doctor.

Gabriel’s death was ruled an accident, but investigators pointed to the possibility that the medication may have contributed to his death. The tragedy triggered a storm of outrage across the state.

“I don’t accept that the only way to reach a child who is 7 years old is through psychotropic drugs,” said Florida Sen. Ronda Storm, during hearings over Gabriel’s death. “I do not accept that.”

The boy’s doctor settled a lawsuit in 2010 accusing him of prescribing a toxic cocktail of psychotropic drugs to a 16-year-old patient, who suffered a sudden heart attack and died. Punjwani settled that case but admitted no wrongdoing.

Additionally, Punjwani was arrested for driving under the influence and cocaine possession. He pleaded not guilty to those charges but went through a court-ordered rehabilitation program.

When ABC News caught up with Dr. Punjwani, he told us, “Sad stories happen but that does not mean that everything else the doctor is responsible for it because we are in the business of taking care of these children,” he said.

Antipsychotic medication, which can cause a litany of health problems such as severe weight gain, an increased risk of diabetes and irreversible movement disorders, is among the top-selling drugs in America.

Four drug makers have paid a total of more than $2 billion to settle claims they illegally marketed antipsychotics to children. All deny wrongdoing.

“How do antipsychotics, drugs supposedly for people who have lost touch with reality, how do they develop such a wide market?” said neuropsychiatrist Dr. Stefan Kruszewski, who won millions of dollars as a key whistleblower against drug companies.

There have been very limited long-term studies on antipsychotics in children. And for drugs already on the market, the duration of the studies that were used to get FDA approval for children have been as short as three to six weeks.

ABC News interviewed a social worker now working in a state foster care system, who asked not to be identified.

“Every child that I saw was basically on some type of psychotropic medication,” the social worker told ABC News. “It’s much easier to medicate a child than it is to physically restrain them, than it is to pay $200 an hour to a therapist to talk through their problems with them.”

Dr. Charles Zeanah, a prominent child psychiatrist who is careful to use a minimum of psychotropic medication in children, said that doctors are under pressure from all corners to do something with these troubled children and medication is one of their tools.

“The pressures that I’m aware of are pressures that come from families and schools who have kids with troubling behavior,” he said. “They want something done. They want something done quickly.”

Still, he adds, “The general consensus is that when you’re treating young children, you always try behavioral intervention before you go to medication.”

The problem has not gone unnoticed by some state officials. In the state of Washington, doctors and regulators have implemented a new system to oversee psychotropic medication and identify red flag cases that exceed safety limits, by dosage or number of medications, or arise because of the young age of the child. In those red flag cases, a second opinion by a child psychiatrist is needed before medication can be dispensed.

And some states including Louisiana, Florida and New York are even going so far as kicking out high-prescribing doctors out of Medicaid.

Sen. Carper, who called for the GAO investigation, said he was shocked by the findings.

“The idea that these kids are taking one, two, three times the regular dose for a child or for an adult — it’s just the wrong thing to do,” he said. “We need to get to the bottom of this and do the best that we can to stop it, not just the Congress, not just the doctors, not just the states. All of us together.”

The Child Was Loved Until The State Stepped In

Courtesy of Dr. I. M. Bonkers

Director of the Bonkers Institute

for Nearly Genuine Research

As I read this letter from the U.S. Health and Human Services to the States, I became absolutely disgusted knowing that nothing will ever change.  The reason why is because of the privacy laws in child welfare.  It would not be in the best interests of child welfare organizations to tell the truth.

The truth is the failure of HHS to even recognize that children are Legally Kidnapped and put in foster care for reasons other than what the child abuse propaganda will brainwash you to believe.  A child can be put into foster care because of poverty, a lack of medical coverage, the fact the parent is an undocumented immigrant, or parental rights to a previous child has been terminated based on the preceding items in this list.

In all these instances the child was loved until the state stepped in.

The States will not do anything due to the simple fact that the privatized child welfare organizations will never face any penalty of their actions.  Ever.

Let me give you an example.  Foster care caseworkers perform Axis III diagnoses.  A visiting physician will come through and see a child for less than five minutes to write a script.

States do not even report incidences of rape, suicide and torture in foster care so what makes you think they are going to be forthright in reporting polypharmacy let alone justification of labeling kids with the labels that killed Rebecca Riley.

Rebecca Riley (April 11, 2002 – December 13, 2006), the daughter of Michael and Carolyn Riley and resident of Hull, Massachusetts, was found dead in her home after prolonged exposure to various medications, her lungs filled with fluid. The medical examiner's office determined the girl died from "intoxication due to the combined effects" of the drugs Clonidine,valproic acid (Depakote), Dextromethorphan, and Chlorpheniramine and that her heart and lungs were damaged due to prolonged abuse of these prescription drugs. Police reports state she was taking 750 milligrams a day of Depakote, 200 milligrams a day of Seroquel, and .35 milligrams a day of Clonidine. Rebecca had been taking the drugs since the age of two forbipolar disorder and ADHD, diagnosed by psychiatrist Kayoko Kifuji of the Tufts-New England Medical Center.

State Medicaid Fraud Control Units are typically housed in the State Attorney General's Office.  The State Attorney General advocates for these child welfare organizations and the state, which is the legal guardian of foster children.  To prosecute the entities it contracts and pays would be a severe conflict of interest and would put a financial strain upon state revenues.

How can HHS even think it can develop "webinars" to stop this multi-billion dollar industry of drugging children?  This is not even a bandaid, this is like pretending the shit the elephant just dumped in the room does not stink.

Come on Pamela, George and Donald.  I expect much better from you.
State Director Letter - Joint ACF CMS and SAMHSA on Psychotropic Drug Use in Foster Care

Senate Hearing on Drugging Foster Kids

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THE FINANCIAL AND SOCIETAL COSTS OF MEDICATING AMERICA’S FOSTER CHILDREN

Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security

December 1, 2011

Witnesses

Panel 1

• Mr. Ke'onte Cook
• Mrs. Carol Cook

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The Financial and Societal Costs of Medicating America’s Foster Children Testimony of Matt Salo Executive D...

Statement of Dr. Jon McClellan Professor University of Washington Seattle, Wa Senate hearing: December 1, 2...


FOSTER CHILDREN HHS Guidance Could Help States Improve Oversight of Psychotropic Prescriptions Statement of...