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4th patient charity settles Medicare kickback allegations

(By Maia Anderson for Becker’s Hospital Review) A fourth patient charity agreed to pay $3 million to settle claims it

(By Ed Silverman for ST A T) A s a novel coronavirus spreads through China and rattles the rest of

(By Shraddha Chakradhar and Andrew Joseph for ST A T) It seemed like it was only a matter of time.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it plans to combine and standardize its eight separate Compare

(By Nicholas Florko for ST A T) WASHINGTON — Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and the 31 other major drug

(By Anna Almendrala and Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News) A highly publicized approach to lowering health costs failed to

(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) Medicare could be paying surgeons for postoperative care that isn’t provided, according to

The average Health Savings Account balance was $2,803 in 2018 according to data from the Employee Benefit Research Institute; however,

Since 2000, states are devoting more of their revenue to Medicaid and are at risk of having Medicaid spending overrun

(By Elena Renken for NPR) More than three in five Americans are lonely, with more and more people reporting feeling