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Medicare Recovered $1B in Fraud in FY20Medicare Fraud Control Units recovered $3.36 for every $1 spent investigating fraud.
Finance
Highmark Reports More Than $220M in Savings Related to Fraud, Waste, and AbuseLast year, FIPR prevented approximately $7.5 million in fraud, waste, and abuse related to COVID-19, Highmark stated.
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BCBS Minn. Sues Pharma Bro's Old CompanyThe Eagan, Minnesota-based health insurer alleges that Phoenixus and its U.S. subsidiary Vyera schemed to raise the price of its...
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With GOP Back at Helm, Montana Renews Push to Sniff Out Welfare FraudMontana is considering becoming the latest state to aggressively check welfare eligibility to cut costs. While supporters of the move...
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AHA asks CMS to Spike IRF Demonstration AuditsThe proposed integrity audit on inpatient rehabilitation facilities in four states during the public health emergency raises a number of...
Covid-19
Contractor Who Was Awarded $34.5M in Government Money and Provided Zero Masks Pleads Guilty to FraudThe VA and FEMA agreed to pay a first-time vendor in a desperate search for protective equipment. Now Robert Stewart...
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athenahealth to Pay $18.2M to Resolve Kickback, False Claims AllegationsEnticements to customers included trips to The Masters, the U.S. Open, the Kentucky Derby, the World Series, the Indianapolis 500,...
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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...