Audit: D.C. overpaid Medicaid firms &#36;97M
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The District of Columbia risks losing federal funds because it has overpaid contractors almost $100 million for medical services, an audit found.
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Pharmacists would take the biggest hit from a proposed rule designed to save states and the federal government about $8.4 billion over the coming five years, officials who oversee Medicaid said Sunday.
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HealthSouth Corp. HLSH.PK, a  health-care company that is trying to emerge from an accounting  scandal, said on Thursday it agreed to pay $325 million to  settle federal charges that the company overbilled Medicare.
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UnitedHealth Group Inc., one of the largest providers of health insurance in the United States, has paid $20 million to 37 states in order to settle claims processing problems, according to the New York State Department of Insurance.
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In February 2005, an auditor at the General Services Administration presented evidence to agency leaders that one of the government's top technology contractors was overcharging taxpayers.
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The auditor was the vice president of a company that received more than $1.2 million in payments.
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Health Management Associates , which operates 59 hospitals in the United States, reported a 59 percent drop in its third-quarter profit on Friday after an increase in uninsured patients and mounting unpaid bills for its services.
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Some states are mismanaging their Medicaid programs and have cheated taxpayers out of as much as &#36;40 billion over the past decade, President Bush's new health secretary says, setting the stage for a fierce fight over how to pay for the increasingly costly health program for the poor.
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The nation&#39;s pharmacists are reaping windfall profits at the expense of Medicaid, the government health care program for the poor.
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The nation's third-largest operator of kidney-dialysis clinics has agreed to pay the government &#36;350 million to settle allegations it defrauded Medicare.
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LOS ANGELES An audit has concluded that a public relations firm overbilled the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power by more than four (m) million dollars.
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U.S. prosecutors have joined a   whistle-blower lawsuit accusing a subsidiary of German   pharmaceutical company Merck KGaA MRCG.DE of fraudulently   overcharging the Medicare program, the U.S. government said on   Monday.
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The numbers cited by Gov. Eliot Spitzer on the stateâs $46 billion-a-year Medicaid program donât tell the whole story.
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FRIDAY, Jan. 14 (HealthDayNews) -- Requiring enrollees to get permission before filling prescriptions for proton pump inhibitor (PPI) anti-ulcer drugs enabled the Georgia Medicaid program to cut its prescription drug costs by &#36;20.6 million in a year, says a study in latest issue of the American Journal of Managed Care.
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President Bush added Medicare to the government's fix-it list Wednesday after new figures showed the first full decade of the program's prescription benefit will cost taxpayers &#36;724 billion.
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Payment to resolve allegations pharmaceutical firm overcharged government for top drugs.
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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.