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Report: MI leads in premature births, sick infants
According to a new study, babies born in Detroit are sicker and arrive earlier than babies born in other major U.S. cities. The report, which analyzed data over a 15-year period ending in 2005, Read more...
CA hospitals raided on fraud charges
Three hospitals in the Los Angeles area are facing lurid charges that they recruited homeless people on the city's skid row and subjected them to unnecessary tests and procedures in an effort to Read more...
CA court won't delay 10 percent Medicaid rate cut
A California state court has dashed the hopes of the state's providers, ruling that the state's new 10 percent cut in its Medicaid should move ahead. A group of powerful medical associations, Read more...
Amerigroup to pay $225M in Medicaid fraud settlement
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...
Moody's urges hospitals to remember record-setting healthcare bankruptcy
In 1998, the U.S. healthcare industry saw what was, at that time, the biggest bankruptcy filing ever by a not-for-profit health system. Allegheny Health & Education Research Foundation, a $2 Read more...
Amerigroup may settle Medicaid fraud charges soon
An Illinois health plan which refused to enroll high-risk patients in its Medicaid plan may soon be settling a lawsuit brought by state and federal authorities, for a whopping $334 million. Read more...
Department of Justice faces 500-case healthcare whistle-blower backlog
In theory, having scores of whistle-blowers file cases identifying cases of potential fraud is a good thing. However, a recent surge in such cases has so overwhelmed staff at the federal Department Read more...
Coalition protests healthcare cuts in CA
It's somewhat ironic that a Governor as well known for his commitment to physical fitness as he is for being an aging action adventure hero has proposed deep budget cuts that could leave more than Read more...
Audit finds that IL Medicaid paid providers late
An audit of Illinois'' Medicaid program has found that a $1.5 billion financial shortfall led to delays in paying physicians, hospitals and nursing homes over recent years. However, in recent times Read more...
AstraZeneca asks judge to nullify $215M drug-price lawsuit
Drugmaker AstraZeneca has asked an Alabama judge to nullify a jury verdict that ordered it to pay the state $215 million in damages in a Medicaid drug-price fraud suit. The state's 2005 suit accused Read more...
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