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After Medicaid reimbursement allegations, LA hospital agrees to $3.3M settlement

October 20, 2008 — 12:57pm ET | By Dan Bowman
After allegedly collecting Medicaid reimbursement as a Level 1 pediatric-intensive care provider, despite not qualifying for such a status, Marrero, LA's West Jefferson Medical Center will now pay... Read more...

Walgreens settles Medicaid billing allegations

October 1, 2008 — 12:44pm ET | By Anne Zieger
Pharmacy chain store giant Walgreens has agreed to pay the U.S. and four additional states, $9.9 million to resolve allegations that it falsely billed the Medicaid program. According to the... Read more...

NY hospital will pay $89M to settle False Claims Act claims

September 16, 2008 — 9:22am ET | By Anne Zieger
Staten Island University Hospital has agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Justice and the state of New York nearly $89 million to settle a handful of False Claims Act allegations brought by both the... Read more...

Amerigroup to pay $225M in Medicaid fraud settlement

July 24, 2008 — 9:48am ET | By Sterling Meyers
Amerigroup, the Illinois health plan that refused to enroll high-risk patients in its Medicaid plan, announced that it will pay $225 million to the state of Illinois and the U.S. government to settle... Read more...

Federal False Claims act uses narrowed, but legislators still want expansion

July 21, 2008 — 1:22pm ET | By Anne Zieger
Things should get interesting in coming months when it comes to the application of the False Claims Act. On the one hand, the U.S. Supreme Court recently narrowed the application of the Act--but... Read more...