tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 15

Litigation: GALLUP SUES SCULLY OVER ALLEGED BULLYING

The Gallup Organization polling firm has filed suit against Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Tom Scully, alleging that Scully tried to bully one of its partners out of pursuing a complaint about CMS's handling of the hospital consumer-satisfaction survey it is developing. In a March 5 e-mail asserting that Gallup was trying to do an end run around CMS by asking an Office of Management and Budget Official to intervene on its behalf, Scully referred to Gallup managing partner Robert Neilsen as a "jerk" and an "idiot." "You are such a weasel that you won't come...

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