HealthSouth to pay $325m
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HealthSouth, the US hospital operator, on Thursday settled allegations that it defrauded federal health insurance programmes by agreeing to pay $325m.
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Manufacturing executive John Workman was named chief financial officer of HealthSouth Corp. on Tuesday, replacing an interim executive who helped the rehabilitation giant avoid bankruptcy after a massive accounting scandal.
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A look at Healthways before the third-quarter earnings report.
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HealthSouth Corp. booked singers like Faith Hill, Reba McIntire and the band Alabama for its annual management meetings at Disney World between 1996 and 2001 &#151; then billed Medicare to cover the cost, according to a report in The Birmingham News.
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NEWARK, New Jersey  - Four medical device makers will pay a total of $311 million and agreed to federal monitoring to settle a government probe into consulting deals prosecutors said were made with surgeons to sway decisions on which hip and knee implants to give to patients.
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LONDON: Britain&#39;s National Health Service (NHS) is expected to move around 400 jobs to India to save costs as part of a part-privatisation of its back-office accounting and purchasing division.
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The nation&#39;s biggest health insurer said Monday that it would pay $300 million in cash to buy Definity Health Corp., the leading provider of consumer-driven health plans, whose base of operations is in Amherst.
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BIRMINGHAM, Feb. 1 -- As HealthSouth Corp. officials began to inflate the company's earnings in 1996, chief executive Richard M.  Scrushy's central question was, "Could I get this past the auditors?" former chief financial officer William T. Owens testified Tuesday.
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Media & professional: A British firm agrees to pay Â£4m to NHS over alleged price-fixing of medicine.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.  - HealthSouth Corp.'s physical  therapy centers and other facilities sent accurate financial  reports to company headquarters, where accountants would cook  the books to make the numbers look better, a forensic  accountant told a federal court on Friday.
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About a third of the payments from tobacco companies to the states goes to health care and tobacco control, government auditors said Tuesday.
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UnitedHealth Group, the largest US health insurance company, has said that it will spend $300 million in cash to buy Definity Health, a smaller health technology company specializing in plans that allow consumers leeway in directing their medical spending
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Australia's Healthscope Ltd.  launched a A$2.86 billion ($2.34 billion) takeover offer for larger rival Symbion Health Ltd.  on Tuesday, backed by private equity firms Ironbridge Capital and Archer Capital.
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Hospital giant HCA Inc. said Wednesday it expects third-quarter earnings to range between $222 million and $232 million, or 46 cents to 48 cents per share, including losses from hurricanes Charley, Frances
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A Kroger spokesman says the agreement includes wage increases and improvements in health insurance coverage. The contract covers about 8,500 employees in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana.
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HealthSouth Corp. has agreed to pay the US government $325 million to settle numerous allegations that the company defrauded Medicare and other government health programs, the Justice Department said yesterday.
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The US Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a $41 million contract to Sanofi Aventis Inc. for flu vaccines. Health Secretary Tommy Thompson said part of the contract was to ensure there are