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Farmers to Pay $6.5 Million After Whistleblower Alleges They Defrauded Crop Insurance Programs

Whistleblower Network News

A qui tam whistleblower initiated a federal investigation that unveiled that the two defendants allegedly defrauded federal crop insurance programs by interfering with rain gauges. Finegan states, “Hardworking farmers and ranchers depend on USDA crop insurance programs, and we will not allow these programs to be abused.”

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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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Investors Blame Electrotherapy Co.'s Practices For Stock Drop

Government Contracts

faces a proposed investor class action claiming it harmed shareholders after it was booted from at least one insurer network for U.S. Electrotherapy device maker Zynex Inc. military members, allegedly due to oversupplying its customers.

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New Report Calls for More Whistleblower Award Programs Like the SEC’s

Whistleblower Network News

A whistleblower program covering violations of the CFPA would protect the public from insurance fraud, credit fraud, investment fraud, identity theft, mortgage fraud and other consumer fraud schemes, which all too often go unchecked,” writes Kohn. Whistleblower award programs are a proven cornerstone to fighting fraud.

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Securing the future of healthcare in the age of generative AI and connected care

AWS Public Sector

The following diagram shows the modern integrated healthcare and life sciences services ecosystem, which is a network of traditional providers, health plans, pharmacies, and other brick-and-mortar care organizations coupled with cloud service providers and new digital marketplaces, connected medical devices, and of course the healthcare consumer.

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Metrics that Matter for Critical Infrastructure Cyber Resilience

FedInsider

The cyberattack that took down Change Healthcare, which provides technology used to submit and process insurance claims and handles about 14 billion transactions a year, has been described as “the most significant and consequential cyberattack in American history.”