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Clinics and hospitals around the world are acquiring technology that identifies people based on physical traits to improve patient safety and stamp out fraud.
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Novartis, the Swiss drugmaker already under a strict corporate-integrity agreement because of a past settlement, was targeted by two lawsuits last week by the U.S. attorney's office for New York City alleging widespread payments of illegal kickbacks.
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Editor's note: At a time of rapid change in the healthcare industry, HHS Inspector General Daniel Levinson's office is charged with steering healthcare companies on the path of honest and transparent work. Modern Healthcare reporter Joe Carlson sat down with Levinson last week to talk about new...
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CareFusion Corp., the publicly traded devicemaker spun off from Cardinal Health, announced that it will enter into an agreement with federal investigators to pay $41 million and avoid criminal prosecution for its past sales and marketing of antiseptic surgical wipes.
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HHS Inspector General Dan Levinson talks with Modern Healthcare legal affairs reporter Joe Carlson about the office's plans for hospital audits, efforts to persuade healthcare companies to turn themselves in when they uncover wrong-doing internally, and the fraud implications of the rapidly growing...
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After reviewing 2,000 pages of public comments, Senate Finance Committee staffers say the healthcare industry wants clearer rules, fewer redundant audits and more focus on proactive fraud prevention.
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The CMS has no estimate of how much federal money is lost to fraud in the Medicare program most plagued with improper payments, and the agency's top integrity official was unable to tell lawmakers when they might see such a number.
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Many Medicare fraud schemes rely on “patient recruiters” to scour local communities for senior citizens who, knowingly or not, can provide personal information that can be used to generate false bills.
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The U.S. government sued Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. Tuesday, claiming it gave kickbacks to pharmacies to switch kidney transplant patients from competitors' drugs to its own.
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Law enforcement agencies are reporting an increase in health insurance scams across the country. Many of the fraudsters seem to be preying on the public's confusion over the massive changes taking place in the nation's healthcare system.
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