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Insurer to pay $3 million to avoid prosecution

By Baltimore Sun
Posted: November 20, 2012 - 1:30 pm ET

Coventry Health Care gained advantage over competitors by allowing its employees to inappropriately access a federal Medicare database and has agreed to pay the federal government $3 million to avoid criminal prosecution, according to the Maryland U.S. attorney's office.

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