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False Claims Act Whistleblower Awarded $9.9 Million for Alleging Medicare Part C Kickback Scheme

Whistleblower Network News

Department of Justice announced that Oak Street Health agreed to pay $60 million to settle allegations that it violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to third-party insurance agents in exchange for referring seniors to Oak Street Health’s primary care clinics.

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Whistleblower Suits Lead to Massive Rite Aid Settlements Relating to Opioid Dispensing and Reporting Rebates

Whistleblower Network News

101 Million Settlement over Allegations of Falsely Reporting Rebates Rite Aid and Rite Aid subsidiaries, Elixir Insurance Company, RX Options LLC and RX Solutions LLC agreed to pay the government $101 million to settle the allegations of falsely reporting rebates. Lutzko for the Northern District of Ohio.

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Alberta Motor Association transforms member experience and optimizes cost on AWS Cloud

AWS Public Sector

The Alberta Motor Association ( AMA ) is a multi-service member-run organization that provides driving education, rewards, roadside assistance, travel, insurance, banking, and many other member-focused services. Their core mission is defined as “protecting what matters most” to members.

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Vision 2024: Digital Transformation in State & Local Government – Albany, NY

FedInsider

For instance, the state’s 2022-23 IT strategic plan emphasizes improving IT resiliency in part by getting away from legacy systems, implementing an enterprise architecture, and improving demand management and service delivery, to name a few. The state recently unveiled its new statewide cybersecurity strategy.

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Reality Check: Counties Assess Their Cyber Readiness

GovLoop

But many cyber insurance companies now require these assessments before they’ll provide coverage, which government organizations increasingly need. Premiums have doubled and even quadrupled for some counties, and requirement questionnaires demand details on what cybersecurity agencies have in place. Where and how do you provide data?

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Reality Check: Counties Assess Their Cyber Readiness

GovLoop

But many cyber insurance companies now require these assessments before they’ll provide coverage, which government organizations increasingly need. Premiums have doubled and even quadrupled for some counties, and requirement questionnaires demand details on what cybersecurity agencies have in place. Where and how do you provide data?

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Microservices-based tax and labor systems using AWS

AWS Public Sector

In this post, we dive deeper into these areas and discuss benefits, approaches, and best practices for building modern tax and unemployment insurance (UI) applications using microservices. This can further improve scalability, reduce operational overhead, and allow the system to automatically scale up or down based on demand.