{"id":6293,"date":"2017-03-29T08:07:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T12:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6293"},"modified":"2017-03-29T08:07:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T12:07:22","slug":"justice-department-joins-lawsuit-alleging-massive-medicare-fraud-by-unitedhealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6293","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department Joins Lawsuit Alleging Massive Medicare Fraud By UnitedHealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Fred Schulte for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;\">The Justice Department has joined a California whistleblower\u2019s lawsuit that accuses insurance giant UnitedHealth Group of fraud in its popular Medicare Advantage health plans.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/justice-department-joins-lawsuit-alleging-massive-medicare-fraud-by-unitedhealth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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