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What If Costco Designed the Prescription Drugs Sales Model?

Health Populi

Consumers Overpay for Generic Drugs , a new paper from the Leonard Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics asserts, with recommendations to address the intermediaries who benefit from the way Americans currently pay for medicines. The good news about prescription drugs, in the context of medical spending in the U.S.,

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18 Former NBA Players Indicted For Alleged $4 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

The Health Law Firm Blog

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On October 7, 2021, 18 former NBA players were charged in New York federal court for an alleged health insurance fraud scheme to rip off the league's benefit plan, according to an indictment filed in the Southern District [.] By George F. Indest III, J.D.,

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18 Former NBA Players Indicted For Alleged $4 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

The Health Law Firm Blog

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On October 7, 2021, 18 former NBA players were charged in New York federal court for an alleged health insurance fraud scheme to rip off the league's benefit plan, according to an indictment filed in the Southern District [.] By George F. Indest III, J.D.,

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Navigating the Intersection of Payment Integrity and Provider Relations in Healthcare

Innovaare Compliance

Balancing AI-Driven Payment Integrity with Provider Relations A large health insurance company implemented an AI-powered payment integrity system to identify and prevent potential fraud, waste, and abuse in healthcare claims. The Challenge of Health Care Fraud. 2021, January 15). 2021, April).

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Retrieving Billions in Overpayments by CMS

Healthcare IT Today

Challenges of Investigating Overpayments Undeserved payments are needles lurking in the haystack of 135 million Americans enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). How can such overpayments be uncovered? public in overpayments. But the needles pile up fast.

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22 Executive Digital Health Predictions to Watch in 2023

HIT Consultant

While health systems will continue to capture the majority of condition-specific and specialty care; ownership of primary care, insurance services, and ancillary care (lab/imaging/pharmacy) are at the center of a contentious battle. Ankit Gupta, CEO/Founder of Bicycle Health.

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What Are THE 3 Major Things Addressed in the HIPAA Law?

HIPAA Journal

For example: Had the health insurance industry been allowed to continue operating as it did prior to HIPAA, tens of millions of Americans would be excluded from health plan benefits. Had the momentum to improve health care not been given a kickstart by HIPAA, subsequent health care initiatives may never have happened.

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