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Kaiser Foundation MA Plan to Pay $6.3M to Settle False Claims Allegations.The alleged violations occurred in 2011 and 2012, before Group Health Cooperative was acquired by Kaiser Permanente.
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Purdue Pharma to Pay $8B to Settle Criminal, Civil Charges for Key Role in Opioid EpidemicThe settlement does not release from further criminal charges the Sackler family, owners of Purdue, nor any of company's executives...
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Merit Medical Systems to Pay $18M to Settle Kickback AllegationsUtah-based MSSI for more than six years allegedly paid millions of dollars in kickbacks to healthcare providers in the form...
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Wheeling Hospital to Pay $50M to Settle Stark, Anti-Kickback AllegationsThe settlement does not mandate a standard, five-year monitoring agreement for the hospital, nor an admission of wrongdoing on the...
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Konica Minolta Healthcare to Pay $500K to Settle False Claims Act AllegationsFederal prosecutors claim that Viztek LLC, a former subsidiary of Konica Minolta, falsely claimed that its EHR software was HHS...
Covid-19
Scam Alert: Things a COVID Contact Tracer Wouldn't SayGrifters are taking advantage of a genuine public health intervention that's crucial to stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Finance
OIG Audit Finds Hospital Upcodes Overbilled Medicare by $1BGovernment watchdogs are calling on CMS to recoup the overpayments.
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TeamHealth Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Hospital, ER Billing FraudThe lawsuit was filed in the District Court for the Northern District of California late last week.
Covid-19
One Federal Agency Was Suing Him for Fraud. Another Paid His Company Millions for Masks.Court records show the federal government gave $20 million in contracts to a company partly controlled by a man with...
Finance
Hospital Executive Charged in $1.4B Rural Hospital Billing SchemeProsecutors allege that Jorge A. Perez, 60, and nine others exploited federal regulations that allow some rural hospitals to charge...
Ex-Cleveland Clinic Researcher Arrested, Charged with Wire Fraud
Dr. Qing Wang allegedly failed to disclose to NIH that he was also receiving grant money from the Chinese government....
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Harvard to Pay $1.3M to Settle Overbilling Allegations for NIH, HRSA GrantsThe university self-disclosed the overcharges to NIH and HRSA by a professor at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health.