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Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and its parent company Johnson & Johnson agreed Thursday to a multi-state settlement to resolve charges of improper marketing and advertising of the anti-psychotic drugs Risperdal and Invega. The company will pay $181 million to 36 states and the District of Columbia.
SCAN Health Plan recently agreed to pay the largest overpayment fines in California history, a total of $323 million to both the state and federal governments for Medicare and Medicaid over billings stretching as far back as 1985.
The value-based insurance company SeeChange Health Insurance was recently approved to sell plans in Colorado and is aiming to expand in six other states within the next few years.
An American Hospital Association (AHA)-sponsored webinar on Wednesday highlighted findings from a study on the diversity in hospitals and featured successful practices tips from two hospitals recently honored for promoting overall diversity and creating strategies for disparities reduction at their facilities.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona and non-profit health system Banner Health have announced an equal partnership designed to provide a coordinated Medicare Advantage offering to be known as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Advantage.
The global radiology systems market has an estimated value of $9.7 billion in 2012 and is expected to reach $13.3 billion by 2018, according to a new report from Transparency Market Research.
It may come as a surprise that President Barack Obama and GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan are pushing the same target rate for controlling federal spending on Medicare. Their approaches to curbing costs, however, are very different.
SCAN Health Plan, a California HMO, is paying the state of California and the federal government $323 million in fines for Medicaid and Medicare overpayments, some going back to 1985.
Angela Braly abruptly resigned yesterday as chairman and CEO of WellPoint amid a growing outcry from the investment community for her ouster driven by a slumping stock price and lagging earnings.
By choosing Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to be his running mate, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney put Medicare on the table as a major 2012 campaign issue.