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(By Ben Allen, WITF for Kaiser Health News) Louis Casanova is playing cards with a friend on the back deck

Improper and Illegal Drug Overcharges

In the new case of Mohr V. UnitedHealth Group, Inc., 16-cv-03352, the plaintiffs’ claims the health insurer defrauded them by

(By Bob Tedeschi for STAT) GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Three weeks earlier she’d been done. Done with the chemo and the

(By Ed Silverman for STAT) State prison systems are unable to lock up savings by using new hepatitis C treatments

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sent a letter to U.S. senator stating Mylan NV has been overcharging the

(By Karen DaSilva for STAT) Health care, like many industries, places great emphasis on innovation. In just the past decade,

(By Brooke Murphy for Becker’s Hospital Review) As of August, Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., returned more than $400,000

(By Helen Branswell for STAT) A new federal policy aimed at reducing the unnecessary use of antibiotics in agriculture may

(By Rob Stein for NPR) Human life spans have been increasing for decades thanks to advances in treating and preventing

(By Anna Gorman for California Healthline) The staff of Clinica Sierra Vista, which has health centers throughout the Central Valley,