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2 fugitives accused of Medicare fraud may be in Glendale, U.S. says
Federal authorities say two of Medicare's most-wanted fugitives may be hiding out in Glendale. Healthcare investigators say Karo Gotti Blkhoyan, 32, and Anush Sahakyan, 29, set up a phony medical clinic in South Carolina from 2009 to 2010 and billed for...Tags: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Medicare, Los Angeles Times, Government Health Care
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State report outlines Kwiatkowski's time in Maryland
Supervisors at a Maryland hospital weren't surprised when drugs were missing from a treatment room where contract radiology technician David Kwiatkowski was assigned. A manager had spotted him going through needle-disposal containers and he was among...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Agriculture, Trials, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Hepatitis
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Marylander who died of rabies contracted disease from kidney transplant
The first Marylander to succumb to rabies since 1976 developed the virus through a kidney transplant that took place more than a year before the Army veteran died of the disease in February, national health and defense officials said Friday. Tests...
Tags: Syphilis, U.S. Army, Vaccines, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Diseases and Illnesses
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GOP's effort to roll back healthcare reforms is bad policy
Bernie Morse, 65, of Century City retired last year from the aerospace industry and joined the ranks of Medicare beneficiaries. The nearly $8,000 he used to spend annually on drugs for a liver condition now will be cut almost in half. Were a private...
Tags: Personal Income, Politics, Health Insurance, Barack Obama, Health and Safety at School
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Illegal immigrants should have health coverage, foundation says
L.A. NOWThe California Endowment is launching a campaign to extend medical coverage to all uninsured state residents, including undocumented immigrants. An estimated 3 million to 4 million Californians, or about 10% of the state’s population, could remain... -
Survey: Kaiser tops in customer satisfaction for health insurance
For the sixth consecutive year, Kaiser Permanente ranked highest in customer satisfaction for health insurance among California policyholders, according to ratings firm J.D. Power and Associates. Anthem Blue Cross, the state's largest for-profit...
Tags: Aetna Inc., Walmart, Cigna Corporation, Health Net Inc., Insurance
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Md. health insurers' 'fail first' policies jeopardize patient health
Absent from the critical debate in Maryland over how to rein in health care spending has been a serious examination of the dangerous and expensive policies that some Maryland health insurers have enacted in the name of cost containment, and their...
Tags: Lupus, General Practitioners, Epilepsy, Health Insurance Cost, Medical Procedures and Tests
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It's 'I told you so' on Obamacare
"What we've learned through the course of this program is that this is really not a sensible way for the health care system to be run." That was Gary Cohen, director of the Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Consumer Information and...
Tags: Career and Workplace, The New York Times, Elections, Employment, Politics
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Goldberg: It's 'I told you so' on Obamacare
"What we've learned through the course of this program is that this is really not a sensible way for the healthcare system to be run." That was Gary Cohen, director of the Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Consumer Information and...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Employees, The New York Times, Elections, Employment
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AP: Michigan won't privatize prisons further
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan officials said Friday they will not privatize nearly $350 million in prisoner health care and food costs, keeping intact nearly 1,700 state workers' jobs but frustrating Republican lawmakers who questioned the...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Rick Snyder, Company Privatization, Government, Politics
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Hoag, St. Joseph form health-care alliance
Newport Beach-based Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian and St. Joseph Health on Thursday announced the completion of their affiliation process, which created a new network serving millions of residents throughout Orange County and the High Desert,...Tags: Corporate Officers, Hospitals and Clinics, St. Jude Medical, Inc.
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GOP governors take a pragmatic turn
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Republican governors who worked to thwart much of President Barack Obama's first-term agenda are shifting gears and softening their rhetoric now that his run was extended for four more years and they're facing their own re-...
Tags: Regional Authority, Personal Income, Interior Policy, Politics, Health Insurance
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