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Health insurer Aetna will refile its premerger notification with the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission to give the regulatory agencies additional time to review its proposed acquisition of Humana, according to forms filed this week with the…
Alaska's legislature is suing Gov. Bill Walker (I) over his decision to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, according to The Hill.
The following hospitals, health systems and healthcare providers have entered into settlement agreements to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act since July.
Hovik Simitian, the owner and operator of three medical clinics in Los Angeles, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to submitting more than $4.5 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare, according to the Department of Justice.
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One construction worker died and seven others were injured, three of them critically, after a six-story scaffolding collapsed Tuesday afternoon at Rio Rancho, N.M.-based Presbyterian Rust Medical Center, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
East Central Family Health Center, a federally qualified health center in Wetumka, Okla., has agreed to pay $825,000 to settle civil claims stemming from allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false Medicaid claims, according to the…
The former executive director of Springfield, Ill.-based HSHS St. John's Children's Hospital, Margaret Curtin, was sentenced to nine years in prison on Friday for stealing $700,000 from the hospital between December 2008 and September 2014, according The State Journal-Register.
A man in New York has been arrested and accused of posing as a medical doctor and clinical psychologist for three years, according to a CNN report.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission released long-awaited guidance Thursday on a section of business antitrust law that bars unfair competition — a topic that has received significant attention in the healthcare sector.