Eight Los Angeles-area residents, including two doctors, have been charged for their roles in schemes to submit more than USD14 million in false billing to Medicare, announced the US Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS).
Allstate Insurance, a large US insurer, has launched another case against fraudulent healthcare claimants. It's the ninth for 2011.
Australian regulator ASIC has obtained injunctions against a company and its director to protect against unsolicited "low-ball" offers being made to shareholders in NIB Holdings.
Market Strategies International, a market research company, says that the Affordable Health Care for America Act is leading companies to review their policy of providing healthcare benefits for employees.
In a lawsuit filed in New York, its seventh this year, Allstate Insurance Company seeks to prove that several professional service corporations are actually owned and operated by a layperson rather than by licensed physicians or medical professionals.