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Claiming health insurers were shortchanged by the Affordable Care Act's risk corridor program, Health Republic Insurance Co. has filed a $2.5 billion class-action lawsuit against the U.S., although the CEO of the company says recoveries could be up to $5…
Key members of the Senate Committee on Finance are working on legislation to allow states to use some foster care funds to support parents who are addicted to opioids in raising their infants, Reuters reports.
A multimillion-dollar advertising contract has been swept into the center of an investigation into Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Broward Health.
CMS is increasing site visits to Medicare-enrolled providers as a way to cut back on healthcare fraud.
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Gamal H. Eltabbakh, MD, of Lake Champlain Gynecologic Oncology in Burlington, Vt., has paid the federal government and the state of Vermont $500,000 to resolve allegations that he submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid, according to the Department of…
Richmond University Medical Center in New York, the hospital that dispatched paramedics and treated Eric Garner as he died from injuries administered by police, will pay $1 million dollars to Mr. Garner's family. Information on the confidential agreement comes from…
Health Republic of New York — a nonprofit insurance co-op formed under the Affordable Care Act — abruptly closed last November. Now the FBI may be investigating why, according to NewsDay.com.
A Missouri state jury has ruled Johnson & Johnson must pay $72 million to the family of a woman who used the company's products for decades and eventually died of ovarian cancer linked to the company's talc-based powders, Reuters reports.
The controversial cancer treatment figure Stanislaw Burzynski, MD, PhD, has been at the center of numerous investigations and legal proceedings, and is currently in the midst of a Texas Medical Board hearing.