How Many Millions did Sir Donald Berwick get from LeapFrog?

By Dr. Bharani Padmanabhan – June – 2014

Valley Patriot readers know about the LeapFrog Score fraud. LeapFrog is intimately associated with Dr. Lucian Leape and his close friend Sir Donald Berwick. Both are very close with Dr. Charles Denham whom Leape turned to when honest folks pointed out that Leape’s Score is an unscientific fraud that kills Americans.

Leape and friends (Pronovost et al) wrote a paper in response that simply asserted that his Score is not mere snake oil, because the great Leape says so! Chuck Denham, the Editor-in-Chief, along with their other chum Dr. David Bates, also associated with LeapFrog, published it in their “peer-reviewed” ‘Journal of Patient Safety.’

LeapFrog now advertises that it’s score is the only “peer-reviewed” score on earth. By purchasing this score, hospitals can claim to be superior in quality, get more money from insurers, and attract more patients, like Brian Evans’ mother, now DEAD.

(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24080719)

Naturally Chuck’s “Journal” failed to inform the public that Chuck was also an advisor to LeapFrog along with Leape and that both are affiliated with Harvard’s School of Public Health – that noble body that lives for the public good and gave an award to Chelsea Clinton in time for 2016. Their other chum, Dr. Ashish Jha, provides blurbs and blogs extolling this “peer-reviewed” score while he also is affiliated with Leape, LeapFrog and Harvard. It is all one happy Harvard-LeapFrog family!

When you quote a study as validating your results, that study should not be written by yourself and published by yourself in your own “Journal.”

Harvard calls that “peer-reviewed” validation but science does not. It is the definition of a conscious unscientific criminal fraud. Dr. Denham, Dr. Leape, Her Majesty’s Sir Donald Berwick, Dr. Bates, Dr. Pronovost, Dr. Jha and Harvard all know this. They are all equally complicit.

All of this led to the question in the title because the Federal Govt. recently outed Dr. Denham for taking $11.6 MILLION in a corrupt kickback scheme that involved Chuck shilling for CareFusion’s 2% chlorhexidine skin cleaner without telling anyone he got paid MILLIONS by them.

The Boston Globe, permanently 100% loyal to Harvard, naturally ran a puff piece on Chuck and willfully IGNORED this multi-million-dollar scandal.

How much did LeapFrog pay Chuck to print Leape’s paper in his own “Journal” and save LeapFrog? Less than $11.6 MILLION? Surely not? The mind boggles!

The screaming question of course is – given that Chuck, Leape and Sir Donald Berwick are this close and are in each other’s beds so to speak, how much did LeapFrog bribe Sir Donald Berwick to issue his official push as Medicare Chief, on US Government Letterhead, exhorting all American hospitals to purchase LeapFrog’s Score?

US Government Letterhead does not come cheaply especially on behalf of some private company.

See that corrupt document here – http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex/9592457590

If recommending just a particular skin cleaner generates a kickback of $11.6 MILLION, how much did delivering the entire nation’s hospitals to LeapFrog generate as a bribe?

$22 MILLION? $44 MILLION? The mind boggles!

After Chuck was outed by the Kansas Feds, LeapFrog issued a press release accepting his resignation. Tellingly the statement does NOT mention the fake paper that Chuck published in his Harvard “Journal” for LeapFrog, the paper that Leape, Pronovost and LeapFrog claim proves that their score is not a conscious unscientific criminal fraud.

Chuck stepped down from his Harvard “Journal” which has now been turned over to…. Dr. Bates! Happily control remains within the Harvard-LeapFrog family.

Chuck’s $11.6 MILLION kickback wouldn’t have been revealed if it had been left to the Boston Medicare Fraud Unit, Boston FBI Healthcare Fraud Unit or US Attorney. Brian Evans’ mother’s death proved it – both the State & Federal Investigator was the same man who instantly absolved the hospital. As I wrote to Inspector General Levinson, Boston hospitals need to bribe just one official, not even two.

The Boston Medicare Fraud Office occupies half of the top floor of the JFK Federal Building. Given that the Boston Office is a total waste of tax-dollars unlike those in Kansas and Florida, the real estate itself (16000 sq. ft) is an additional waste of expensive space. Given that they do not care about dying Veterans and War Heroes, they naturally do not care about ordinary Americans like Brian Evans’ poor mother.

Just as the case of Roger Wheeler (murdered by Bulger) survived solely because it involved FBI Offices in Oklahoma and Florida, Chuck’s kickback was revealed by the Kansas Feds. Though Chuck’s “Journal” is published at Harvard and Leape lives here, the Boston FBI is AWOL.

The next step should be to throw all these frauds into Federal prison – Denham, Berwick, Leape, Jha, Bates, Gawande, Pronovost, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – who know exactly what is going on. Thankfully we still have 49 other States and US Attorneys!

 

Valley Patriot readers know about the LeapFrog Score fraud. LeapFrog is intimately associated with Dr. Lucian Leape and his close friend Sir Donald Berwick. Both are very close with Dr. Charles Denham whom Leape turned to when honest folks pointed out that Leape’s Score is an unscientific fraud that kills Americans. Leape and friends (Pronovost et al) wrote a paper in response that simply asserted that his Score is not mere snake oil, because the great Leape says so! Chuck Denham, the Editor-in-Chief, along with their other chum Dr. David Bates, also associated with LeapFrog, published it in their “peer-reviewed” ‘Journal of Patient Safety.’ LeapFrog now advertises that it’s score is the only “peer-reviewed” score on earth. By purchasing this score, hospitals can claim to be superior in quality, get more money from insurers, and attract more patients, like Brian Evans’ mother, now DEAD. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24080719)Naturally Chuck’s “Journal” failed to inform the public that Chuck was also an advisor to LeapFrog along with Leape and that both are affiliated with Harvard’s School of Public Health – that noble body that lives for the public good and gave an award to Chelsea Clinton in time for 2016. Their other chum, Dr. Ashish Jha, provides blurbs and blogs extolling this “peer-reviewed” score while he also is affiliated with Leape, LeapFrog and Harvard. It is all one happy Harvard-LeapFrog family! When you quote a study as validating your results, that study should not be written by yourself and published by yourself in your own “Journal.” Harvard calls that “peer-reviewed” validation but science does not. It is the definition of a conscious unscientific criminal fraud. Dr. Denham, Dr. Leape, Her Majesty’s Sir Donald Berwick, Dr. Bates, Dr. Pronovost, Dr. Jha and Harvard all know this. They are all equally complicit. All of this led to the question in the title because the Federal Govt. recently outed Dr. Denham for taking $11.6 MILLION in a corrupt kickback scheme that involved Chuck shilling for CareFusion’s 2% chlorhexidine skin cleaner without telling anyone he got paid MILLIONS by them. The Boston Globe, permanently 100% loyal to Harvard, naturally ran a puff piece on Chuck and willfully IGNORED this multi-million-dollar scandal. How much did LeapFrog pay Chuck to print Leape’s paper in his own “Journal” and save LeapFrog? Less than $11.6 MILLION? Surely not? The mind boggles! The screaming question of course is – given that Chuck, Leape and Sir Donald Berwick are this close and are in each other’s beds so to speak, how much did LeapFrog bribe Sir Donald Berwick to issue his official push as Medicare Chief, on US Government Letterhead, exhorting all American hospitals to purchase LeapFrog’s Score? US Government Letterhead does not come cheaply especially on behalf of some private company. See that corrupt document here – http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex/9592457590If recommending just a particular skin cleaner generates a kickback of $11.6 MILLION, how much did delivering the entire nation’s hospitals to LeapFrog generate as a bribe? $22 MILLION? $44 MILLION? The mind boggles! After Chuck was outed by the Kansas Feds, LeapFrog issued a press release accepting his resignation. Tellingly the statement does NOT mention the fake paper that Chuck published in his Harvard “Journal” for LeapFrog, the paper that Leape, Pronovost and LeapFrog claim proves that their score is not a conscious unscientific criminal fraud. Chuck stepped down from his Harvard “Journal” which has now been turned over to…. Dr. Bates! Happily control remains within the Harvard-LeapFrog family. Chuck’s $11.6 MILLION kickback wouldn’t have been revealed if it had been left to the Boston Medicare Fraud Unit, Boston FBI Healthcare Fraud Unit or US Attorney. Brian Evans’ mother’s death proved it – both the State & Federal Investigator was the same man who instantly absolved the hospital. As I wrote to Inspector General Levinson, Boston hospitals need to bribe just one official, not even two. The Boston Medicare Fraud Office occupies half of the top floor of the JFK Federal Building. Given that the Boston Office is a total waste of tax-dollars unlike those in Kansas and Florida, the real estate itself (16000 sq. ft) is an additional waste of expensive space. Given that they do not care about dying Veterans and War Heroes, they naturally do not care about ordinary Americans like Brian Evans’ poor mother.Just as the case of Roger Wheeler (murdered by Bulger) survived solely because it involved FBI Offices in Oklahoma and Florida, Chuck’s kickback was revealed by the Kansas Feds. Though Chuck’s “Journal” is published at Harvard and Leape lives here, the Boston FBI is AWOL. The next step should be to throw all these frauds into Federal prison – Denham, Berwick, Leape, Jha, Bates, Gawande, Pronovost, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – who know exactly what is going on. Thankfully we still have 49 other States and US Attorneys!