"These people have shown up at some medical institution in the country with respiratory symptoms that required to be studied and diagnosed, " he said.
Patients could recover economic damages only if their caregivers report mistakes to the database within 24 hours, and their medical institution puts in place corrective measures within a week.
That bit can be confusing because, for federal gift tax purposes, expenses paid on behalf of another person but made directly to a medical institution are excluded from calculations when figuring taxable gifts.
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How did what could be seen as a relatively garden-variety kickback scheme (albeit one allegedly conducted from the executive suite of a prestigious medical institution) end up as a RICO case in which the victim itself is named as the RICO enterprise?
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Late last week, the FDA approved a new med called Eylea, which is made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals ( see this), an upstart with board members that include such heavy hitters as former Merck ceo Roy Vagelos and, as of this morning, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a former executive vp and chief scientific officer at Genentech, who is currently president of Rockefeller University, the medical research institution ( read here).
In the study, the researchers sent out anonymous surveys to medical school deans or their representatives at each institution in the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) -- a total of 130 schools.
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Luke's Medical Center in Manila, says the private institution is "better equipped than 90% of hospitals in the U.S." Bangkok's high-tech Bumrungrad Hospital has also geared up to meet this demand, as has the newly opened Beijing United Family Hospital, which caters to wealthy Chinese as well as expatriates.
In light of that that gift, which was then the largest single gift ever to a U.S. medical school or to the University of California, officials renamed the institution the David Geffen School of Medicine.
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At that, the doctor asked Isom, a cardiac surgeon and surgeon in chief at Weill-Cornell Medical Center in New York, whom he would recommend at his sister institution, Columbia-New York Hospital, in Upper Manhattan.
All payments for qualified medical care and tuition also are free of gift tax if the donor pays the institution directly.
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