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Tag Archives: Florida

Oct 11 2012
Mark Twain, probably

Death of roach-eating contest winner remains a mystery

Death of roach-eating contest winner remains a mystery

Anna Edgerton for The Miami Herald:

Eddie Archbold ate so many live roaches he had to cover his mouth with his hand to keep them from crawling out. He swallowed the three-inch insects faster than he could chew, trying to down as many as possible in four minutes to win a pet python in a most unusual eating contest.

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Over the course of the night, Archbold ate more than 60 grams of meal worms, 35 three-inch-long “super worms” and part of a bucket full of discoid roaches. He started vomiting after the last contest and collapsed outside the store.

Dr. Bill Kern, a professor of entomology at the University of Florida, said it could have been an allergic reaction to so much foreign protein that killed Archbold.

Colin:
I KNOW WHY HE DIED HE ATE A BUNCH OF GODDAMN BUGS
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Aug 13 2012
Mark Twain, probably

Whistleblower lawsuit alleges Florida Hospital filed millions in false claims

Whistleblower lawsuit alleges Florida Hospital filed millions in false claims

It is apparently not a good time to need health care in the state of Florida.

A few days ago, The New York Times reported that doctors at the HCA hospital chain had performed unnecessary heart procedures on patients whose problems weren’t severe enough to need them, resulting in several people nearly dying.

Now, Marni Jameson reports for the Orlando Sentinel about some shady accounting at the Florida Hospital branch in Orlando:

A whistle-blower lawsuit based on insider information from a former Florida Hospital Orlando billing employee and a staff physician alleges that seven Adventist Health hospitals in Central Florida have overbilled the federal government for tens of millions of dollars in false or padded medical claims.

The suit claims Florida Hospital used improper coding for more than a decade to overbill Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare, all federal government payors. In addition, it alleges, the hospital commonly overbilled for a drug used, for example, in MRI scans and billed for computer analyses that were never performed.

Nooooooot good.

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