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Administration warns hospitals on Medicare billing
Saying there are “troubling signs” of abuse in the way hospitals use electronic records to bill for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, the administration of President Barack Obama warned in a letter to hospital associations Monday that it would not tolerate what it called attempts to “game the system” and vowed to vigorously prosecute doctors and hospitals implicated in fraud.
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Wal-Mart Increases Availability, Quality in Health Plan Overhaul
For much of the last decade, the retailing behemoth Wal-Mart Stores has been associated with stingy health care as much as low prices.