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Iowa Independent (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City has agreed to pay the federal government $400,000 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by inflating charges for heart patients’ care. The settlement resolves allegations that Mercy inflated charges for Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare and Federal Employees Health Benefits Program heart patients to obtain additional reimbursement from [...]
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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City has agreed to pay the federal government $400,000 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by inflating charges for heart patients’ care. The settlement resolves allegations that Mercy inflated charges for Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare and Federal Employees Health Benefits Program heart patients [...]
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bizjournals (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Vangent Inc. has won a $6.85 million contract with the Department of Defense’s Tricare Management Activity to upgrade the organization’s procurement system to a Web-based system for managing contracts and acquiring goods and services.
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Now is the time for our leaders once again to show compassion and common sense and demand that the TRICARE exclusion of "maintenance treatment" as a covered service be rescinded immediately.
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
ARLINGTON, VA (MARKET WIRE) Vangent, Inc., a leading global provider of information management and strategic business process solutions, announced today it was awarded a $6.85 million contract by the TRICARE Management Activity (TMA) to modernize its procurement system. When fully implemented, it will enable TMA to more efficiently manage contracts and acquire critical goods and services.
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State of the Division (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
White House Health Czar Nancy-Ann DeParle spoke alongside Peter Orzag on health reform's cost containment measures. DeParle added that it had been twelve years since any real cost containment had been attempted in health care, and it was successful, and that the current reforms would bring back lots of these cost-containment items . Only they've been renamed. Health maintenance organizations are rebranded...
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Above Average Jane (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Catching up, this is from last Thursday: U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz voted in support of legislation today that will ensure fair and adequate payment for physicians who participate in Medicare. Ensuring fair reimbursement for doctors who accept Medicare is vital to protecting access to doctors for seniors and people with disabilities. The Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009, which passed 243...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Humana Military Healthcare Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) and managed care support contractor for TRICARE’s South Region, is launching a company Facebook page to connect with beneficiaries and partners in the increasingly popular social media and networking world. “Social media is here to stay and it is important for companies...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Health Net, Inc. (NYSE:HNT) today announced that it is rescheduling its annual Investor Day from December 11, 2009, to February 11, 2010. The company expects to issue its 2010 earnings guidance on December 11, 2009. “In light of the recent decision by the General Accountability Office regarding the company’s TRICARE protest, the pending close of the sale of...
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Health Care Renewal (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Last week, the Sacramento Business Journal reported on irregularities in how health insurance/ managed care giant Aetna obtained a contract with the US military health plan Tricare: Aetna Inc. hired a former high-level Tricare employee with access to proprietary information about Health Net Inc.’s performance that could have given Aetna a competitive edge in its bid for a lucrative military health...
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Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Peter Orszag writes: >**STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY: H.R. 3961 — Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 (Rep. Dingell, D-Michigan, and 6 cosponsors):** >The Administration strongly supports House passage of H.R. 3961, the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009, and appreciates congressional efforts to ensure that Medicare beneficiaries and TRICARE patients continue...
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PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Justice Department Recovers $2.4 Billion in False Claims Cases in Fiscal Year 2009; More Than $24 Billion Since 1986 FY09 Recovery is Second Largest in History WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United States secured $2.4 billion in settlements and judgments in cases involving fraud against the government in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2009, the Justice Department announced today....
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Military Times - News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
“Gray area” military retirees who were promised health care coverage under Tricare may have to wait a year or longer for benefits to begin, Tricare officials are warning.Reserve retirees, who have had to wait until age 60 before military health coverage begins, had been promised they could sign up for Tricare Reserve Select under a provision of the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act,...
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The Los Angeles Business (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Aetna Inc. hired a former high-level Tricare employee with access to proprietary information about Health Net Inc.’s performance that could have given Aetna a competitive edge in its bid for a lucrative military health care contract, the U.S. Government Accountability Office has concluded.
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The Sacramento Business Journal (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Aetna Inc. hired a former high-level Tricare employee with access to proprietary information about Health Net Inc.’s performance that could have given Aetna a competitive edge in its bid for a lucrative military health care contract, the U.S. Government Accountability Office has concluded.
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