Medicare

Pharma companies are less concerned after hearing from the US about negotiated Medicare prices

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Pharma companies are less concerned after hearing from the US about negotiated Medicare prices

By Patrick Wingrove and Michael Erman (Reuters) – Four pharmaceutical companies involved in the first U.S. negotiations on Medicare program prices say they do not expect a major impact on their businesses after seeing secret price recommendations from to the government for their drugs that will be effective in 2026. The chief executives of Bristol … Read more

Federal judge orders Annapolis man and his health care companies to pay $26 million for defrauding Medicare

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Federal judge orders Annapolis man and his health care companies to pay $26 million for defrauding Medicare

A federal judge has ordered an Annapolis man and his medical laboratory companies to pay $26.3 million for billing Medicare for unnecessary breath tests during the coronavirus pandemic. Prosecutors wrote in a complaint last year that Patrick Britton-Harr of Annapolis owned multiple companies, including Annapolis-based Provista Health LLC, that billed Medicare for unnecessary medical tests, … Read more