Source library

Follow the evidence to the original page.

These are starting sources and issue-discovery material—not a declaration that every institutional statement, study, or firsthand account is complete or correct. Ulekai checks relevance, date, authority, conflicts, incentives, corroboration, and limitations.

Patient records and federal rights

HHS: Get it. Check it. Use it.

Patient-facing health-record access information.

Open original source ↗HHS HIPAA for individuals

Privacy rights and federal complaint starting points.

Open original source ↗HHS Office for Civil Rights

Current federal complaint information within OCR jurisdiction.

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Professional and facility routes

State dental boards directory

National starting directory for state dental authorities.

Open original source ↗State medical boards directory

Federation of State Medical Boards directory.

Open original source ↗Boards of nursing

NCSBN directory of U.S. nursing regulators.

Open original source ↗Boards of pharmacy

NABP directory of boards of pharmacy.

Open original source ↗CMS state survey agencies

Official state contacts for regulated facility oversight.

Open original source ↗CMS EMTALA complaint information

Federal emergency-room rights and complaint starting point.

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Pressure, ownership, and patient safety

FTC / DOJ / HHS healthcare-consolidation inquiry

Agency inquiry into consolidation, ownership, quality, worker safety, and affordability.

Open original source ↗HHS OIG patient-harm reporting

2025 findings on limited external reporting of captured harm events.

Open original source ↗AHRQ diagnostic errors

Patient-safety primer on diagnostic error and follow-up systems.

Open original source ↗AHRQ nursing workforce and safety

Staffing, workload, skill, resources, and unfinished nursing care.

Open original source ↗AMA physician compensation report

Productivity and other components in physician compensation.

Open original source ↗ADA dentist compensation

Common dental compensation arrangements.

Open original source ↗ADA clinical-autonomy ethics paper

A professional-association ethics paper examining how production and collections incentives can affect clinical autonomy.

Open original source ↗ADEA dental-school debt

Dental-graduate debt data and methodology.

Open original source ↗ADA dentist ownership trends

Practice ownership and DSO-affiliation context.

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Practitioner discussion and issue discovery

Dentaltown professional community

A large practitioner forum that can reveal what clinicians discuss, experience, teach, and normalize. Individual posts require attribution and do not establish prevalence by themselves.

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Billing, insurance, and legal starting points

CMS documentation guidance

Medical-record support for billed diagnosis and procedure codes.

Open original source ↗ADA claim-accuracy guidance

Treating-dentist responsibility for accurate claims.

Open original source ↗State insurance departments

NAIC directory of state insurance regulators.

Open original source ↗Public lawyer-referral directory

American Bar Association public referral starting point.

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