Thursday, 21 July 2016

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BREAKING: Feds sue to block health insurance mega-mergers
11:09:34 AM
After more than a year of scrutiny, the U.S. Justice Department filed requests for preliminary injunctions Thursday to block the two health insurance deals led by Aetna and Anthem that would shrink the number of national carriers from five to three...


Jury acquits medical-device company execs of felony fraud charges
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 5:46 PM
A federal jury on Wednesday acquitted two former medical-device company executives on more than a dozen felony counts of fraud related to off-label marketing but convicted them of 10 misdemeanor counts on the same issue.


CMS says $42 billion saved with fraud prevention, provider screening efforts
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 3:21 PM
A report released Wednesday showed that for every dollar spent on program integrity efforts, about $12.40 was saved.


Insurer must cover pharmaceutical distributor's defense costs in W.Va. liability suit
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 3:15 PM
An insurance company will have to cover a pharmaceutical distributor's defense costs in a West Virginia lawsuit attempting to hold it and others liable for the state's prescription drug abuse epidemic, a federal appeals court has ruled.


CDC, Florida probing possible Zika case from Miami mosquito
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 2:46 PM
Health officials in Florida were investigating Wednesday what could be the first Zika infection from a mosquito bite in the continental U.S.


Feds settle data breach case with Oregon Health & Science University for $2.7 million
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 1:30 PM
Oregon Health & Science University has agreed to pay $2.7 million and work through a three-year corrective action plan after a federal investigation found "widespread and diverse problems" with its data protection.


Hemorrhoid fixer uses acquisitions to carve out niche in clinical subspecialty
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 11:31 AM
CRH Medical Corp., maker of the nonsurgical O'Regan System for removing hemorrhoids, now owns nine gastroenterology anesthesia practices, including three acquired in June.


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