Denver-based DaVita Healthcare Partners has agreed to pay $450 million to resolve claims it violated the False Claims Act by wasting medication and then billing Medicare and Medicaid for it, according to the Department of Justice.
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The U.S. Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited opinion on King v. Burwell Thursday morning, ruling 6-3 that tax subsidies under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are available to all Americans, even those who reside in states that…
How will the outcome of King v. Burwell, the current case before the Supreme Court challenging the Affordable Care Act, impact your key stakeholders?
The following is a roundup of recent lawsuits and settlements involving cases filed under the qui tam, or whistle-blower, provision of the False Claims Act, beginning with the most recent.
The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to eliminate the Independent Payment Advisory Board, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Questionable practices at more than 1,400 pharmacies were found by the HHS Office of Inspector General in two reports issued Tuesday that illuminate the extent of the fraud in Medicare's prescription drug program, according to ProPublica.
Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has introduced the Rural Emergency Acute Care Hospital Act, which would allow Critical Access Hospitals and prospective payment system hospitals with 50 or fewer beds to convert to Rural Emergency Hospitals.
The former president and CEO of Edgewater Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago, Peter Rogan, has returned to Chicago to face perjury and obstruction of justice charges stemming from the hospital's financial collapse in 2002, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Mount Sinai Health System President and CEO Kenneth Davis predicted that a "death spiral" could occur if the Supreme Court decides to invalidate the health insurance subsidies currently being provided to millions of Americans through the federal insurance marketplace under…
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