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CoxHealth to pay $60M to settle with feds

July 22, 2008 — 11:23pm ET | By Anne Zieger
Springfield, MO-based health system CoxHealth has agreed to pay $60 million to resolve a myriad of charges related to its financial relationships with referring physicians and its Medicare billing... Read more...

Medicare paid almost $100M to dead doctors since 2000, report finds

July 9, 2008 — 12:45pm ET | By Anne Zieger
Since 2000, Medicare has paid out as much as $92 million to DME providers for equipment prescribed by doctors who were dead at the time, a Congressional investigation has found. During that period,... Read more...