Fred Schulte - KFF Health News
-
New court filings and lobbying reports reveal an industry drive to tamp down critics — and retain billions of dollars in overcharges. What is the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services doing about it? -
A private 2014 decision by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services faces new scrutiny in a multibillion-dollar Justice Department fraud case against UnitedHealth Group. -
More than 172,000 nursing home residents died of covid. In lawsuits, some families who lost loved ones say they were misled about safety measures or told that COVID wasn’t a danger in their facilities. -
A recently unsealed lawsuit accuses Aledade, the largest US independent primary care network, of developing billing software that boosted revenues by making patients appear sicker than they were. -
Thousands of medical devices are sold, and even implanted, with no safety tests. -
In a torrent of lawsuits in Alachua County, patients accuse device maker Exactech of hiding knee and hip implant defects for years. The company denies the allegations. -
In a surprise decision, U.S. officials yield to insurance industry demands — at least for now. -
Kaiser Health News has released never-before-seen details of federal audits as the government weighs action against dozens of Medicare Advantage plans. -
Private equity firms have shelled out almost $1 trillion to acquire nearly 8,000 health care businesses across the country - including Florida - in deals almost always hidden from federal regulators. -
The lawsuit was filed by Kaiser Health News three years ago to learn about vast overcharges by the popular health plans that are detailed in audits the government refused to release to the public.
