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A Home Health Provider Agrees To Pay $22.9 Million In False Claims Act Case

Home Health Care

million in order to resolve allegations that it paid physicians to induce referrals of patients that led to false claims to the Medicare and TRICARE programs. Offering illegal financial incentives to physicians in return for patient referrals undermines the integrity of our health care system,” U.S.

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Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

They argued the procedures were done needlessly, in keeping with a corporate strategy to maximize profits by overtreating kids from lower-income families enrolled in Medicaid. Senate report cited the TV exposé in voicing alarm at the " corporate practice of dentistry in the Medicaid program.” Five years later, a U.S.

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Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

They argued the procedures were done needlessly, in keeping with a corporate strategy to maximize profits by overtreating kids from lower-income families enrolled in Medicaid. Senate report cited the TV exposé in voicing alarm at the " corporate practice of dentistry in the Medicaid program.” Five years later, a U.S.

Doctors 52