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MedPage Today story. A western New York health insurance provider for seniors and the CEO of its medical analytics arm have agreed to pay a total of up to $100 million to settle Justice Department allegations of fraudulent billing for health conditions that were exaggerated or didn’t exist. Independent Health Association of Buffalo, which operates […]

report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). CICP received approximately 27 times more claims in response to the COVID pandemic than it had received in the whole first decade of the program, which began in 2009 — a total of 13,333 claims compared to just 491. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which

click here. Sandra Sio weighed 300 pounds and couldn’t diet it away. For years she tried with no luck. The 35-year-old San Diego-area dental office manager and single mother of two said she went to her doctor in 2022 asking for bariatric surgery. She wanted the extra pounds gone. Instead, he convinced her to try

December 21, 2024, 10:00 AM The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. In states with abortion bans, ProPublica has found, pregnant women have bled to death, succumbed to fatal infections, and wound up in morgues with what medical examiners recorded were “products of conception” still in their bodies. Source

MedPage Today story. Some doctors had a sleepless night when the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology’s (ABPN) online certification program locked them out earlier than the expected deadline — leading some to believe they would lose their board certification. Physicians were working on their quizzes to maintain board certification late on the evening of