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Republican Senate Finance Committee members are demanding answers about what they see as the CMS' slow implementation and lack of transparency in healthcare fraud-fighting programs as HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius gets a tour of the agency's secret new command center for operations.
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HHS and the U.S. Justice Department have partnered with about a half-dozen health insurers to help prevent fraud and abuse in healthcare billing.
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The U.S. Justice Department sought to calm a federal appeals judge and explain and defend President Barack Obama's public statements about the Supreme Court's deliberations on the healthcare reform law.
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius say they are confident the Supreme Court will uphold the healthcare reform law, and Holder said that President Barack Obama hasn't gone out of bounds in his remarks about the possibility that the justices will reach a different...
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder defended as “appropriate” and “obvious” several comments made this week by President Barack Obama, who called for the U.S. Supreme Court to exercise deference to Congress and conclude that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was...
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Hostility between the U.S. Supreme Court and the Obama administration apparently has spilled over to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Houston, where Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Edwin Smith—presiding in a case seeking to overturn the healthcare reform law's restrictions on physician-owned...
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The nation's political forces are bitterly divided over issues ranging from raising the country's debt ceiling to the use of energy-efficient light bulbs, so it's no surprise that the government's role in healthcare is also the source of intense debate.
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This year's ranking of the 100 Most Influential People includes 27 newcomers as well as 10 honorees who have been on every list since it started in 2002.
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U.S. Justice Department antitrust chief Christine Varney, who oversaw an increase in scrutiny on healthcare companies during an era of sweeping consolidation and reform, will resign her federal job Aug. 5.
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Federal authorities charged 111 doctors, nurses and other defendants with healthcare fraud in alleged scams uncovered by Medicare strike forces, HHS and the U.S. Justice Department announced. Officials said the unrelated schemes together were responsible for about $225 million in fraudulent...
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