Category: Department of Health and Human Services
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Sen. Rick Scott talks Medicare fraud; no, not his ex-company’s Medicare fraud
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-FL, knows a thing or two about Medicare fraud. He built and ran Columbia/HCA, the huge hospital company that’s become synonymous with mega-healthcare fraud since it was forced to pay $1.7 billion in criminal fines, civil restitution in the early 2000s.
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Miami pharma exec, a big Republican donor, agrees to pay up to $50 million to settle Medicaid civil fraud charges
By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org A Miami businessman who once justified his decision to quadruple the price of a liquid antibiotic his company sold – to more than $2,300 a bottle – by asserting a “moral requirement to sell the product at the highest price” has agreed to pay up to $50 million to settle federal…
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Broward spine surgeon and device company owner charged in kickback scheme
By Fred Schulte Kaiser Health News A Broward orthopedic surgeon and designer of costly spinal surgery implants was arrested Tuesday and charged with paying millions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes to surgeons who agreed to use his company’s devices.
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No one’s a winner in Miami home eviction ordered during brief lull in pandemic moratorium
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org A Miami woman says her landlord took advantage of a brief pause in the national eviction moratorium to force her out of her home illegally.
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Device makers have funneled billions to orthopedic surgeons who use their products
By Fred Schulte and Elizabeth Lucas, Kaiser Health News Hollywood orthopedic surgeon Dr. Kingsley R. Chin was little more than a decade out of Harvard Medical School when sales of his spine surgical implants took off. Chin has patented more than 40 pieces of such hardware, including doughnut-shaped plastic cages, titanium screws and…
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Humana health plan overcharged Medicare by nearly $200 million, federal audit finds
By Fred Schulte Kaiser Health News A Humana Inc. health plan for seniors in Florida improperly collected nearly $200 million in 2015 by overstating how sick some patients were, according to a new federal audit, which seeks to claw back the money.