Lawsuit: US health plans bilked
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Merck KGaA's U S generic-drug unit was accused by the Department of Justice yesterday of overcharging government health-insurance programs for medicines.
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The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the medical supply industry over concerns that some health care providers bilked government programs including Medicare, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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Patients of a physician who is charged with running a "pill mill" linked to 56 overdose deaths plan to sue the government, claiming it has put patients in mortal danger and created a public health disaster by prosecuting the doctor.
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ProEnglish, a national organization that wants to make English the official language of US government operations, is suing the Department of Health and Human Services over a
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Comment is free: Seumas Milne: It beggars belief that US health privateers straight out of Michael Moore's Sicko are being lined up to run core NHS services.
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Vermont sued the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday over the agency&#39;s opposition to the state&#39;s plan to help its employees and retirees import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada.
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer challenged leaders of two powerful health care groups over ads that criticize his proposal to cut costs.
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NEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) _ The New York state comptroller sued Merck &amp; Co., claiming the drug maker hid certain risks associated with the painkiller Vioxx.
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Doctors are warned that ambiguous abbreviations in medical notes are putting patients' lives at risk.
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NEW YORK, July 17 -- Ailing rescue workers from the World Trade Center site filed a lawsuit Tuesday  charging that a $1 billion insurance fund set up after Sept. 11, 2001, violated a congressional mandate to pay their injury claims and instead spent millions of dollars fighting those claims.
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FREDERICK, Md. -- Doctors in Maryland and around the country are increasingly using methods popularized by labor organizers to counter rising premiums for malpractice coverage.
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WASHINGTON - UnitedHealthcare will pay the federal government $3.5 million to settle allegations of fraud stemming from mishandling of telephone calls involving the Medicare program, the Justice Department announced.
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Inova Health System, one of Virginia&#39;s largest nonprofit hospital chains, is being sued in federal court for allegedly overcharging uninsured patients and then using &quot;aggressive and humiliating&quot; techniques to collect.
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The Illinois attorney general accused  48 major drug makers of fraud for overcharging government  health care programs, joining several other U.S. states filing  similar suits, authorities said on Tuesday.
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Potentially contaminated body parts stolen in the US may have been used on British patients, experts admit.
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The maker of generic drugs gets sued twice in one week.
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Here is a recent New York Times headline of an article describing a George Bush stump speech in Michigan: Bush describes Kerry&#39;s health care plan as a &#39;government takeover.