Court: SF health program fine for now
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A city program that provides health care to the uninsured and is partly funded by businesses can continue at least until a lawsuit challenging the program is resolved, a federal appeals court ruled.
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Clean-up costs for last month's oil spill in San Francisco Bay are on track to exceed the $61 million federal insurance liability limit, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law that was rushed through the Legislature last fall to keep a severely brain-damaged woman hooked up to a feeding tube against her husband's wishes...
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UnitedHealth Group&#39;s (UNH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) UnitedHealthcare Insurance Co. has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle charges that it defrauded the Medicare program, the Justice Department said on Monday.
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A Norwalk doctor accused in a vaccine fraud case has been fined $30,000 and has been placed on probation for two years. Doctor Jorge Elias had been charged with billing Medicaid and other
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What do you think of the Medicare drug discount-card program? (Check all that apply.). I&#39;m eligible but I don&#39;t use it. Biopsy results confirm a young Dublin man has contracted the human form of mad cow disease.
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TV network CBS fights the record $500,000 fine imposed following Janet Jackson's breast-baring incident.
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HALIFAX (CP) - Nova Scotia taxpayers are on the hook for $642,000 charged to an American patient who spent 183 days in a Halifax hospital before dying without paying.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The Maxim Health Systems flu shot clinics at Bay Area retail centers ended Saturday with one final flurry as hundreds of elderly people were turned away from a Safeway supermarket in San Francisco.
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AUSTIN, Minn. - A man has been ordered to pay nearly $3,000 to the woman who became seriously ill in April after opening a parking ticket envelope in which he had placed dog feces. Joshua Steven Solberg, 22, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct Friday in Mower District Court.
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By John Stark, The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash.  Sep. 17--The courtroom battle over the fate of the Healthy Bay Initiative will be heard Monday before Whatcom County Superior Court Judge Ira Uhrig.
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The state's human-services chief was ordered to pay $80,000 for keeping mentally ill inmates in jail, a fine that came a week after she was charged with criminal contempt.
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ABINGDON, Va. -- Purdue Pharma LP, the maker of OxyContin, and three of its executives were ordered yesterday to pay a $634.5 million fine for misleading the public about the painkiller's risk of addiction.
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A heart patient who had no health insurance is suing Inova Health System, alleging that he was overcharged and subjected to aggressive collection procedures.
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Fremont Investment Advisors of San Francisco has agreed to pay $2.1 million in restitution and $2 million in civil penalties to end a mutual fund timing case, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced Thursday.
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The Federal Communications Commission hit CBS on Wednesday (September 22) with a proposed maximum fine of $550,000 for &quot;violation of indecency rules,&quot; stemming from its broadcast of the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show in February.
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An initiative, known as Healthy San Francisco, is the first effort by a locality to guarantee care to all of its uninsured.