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Champ's Top Healthcare Nominee Was Once Embroiled in Medical Fraud Case |
2015-08-03 |
If he is confirmed by the Senate, Slavitt will head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, which manages the federal government's three biggest health care programs. He will manage an estimated $1 trillion in benefits that are paid to millions of doctors, patients and hospitals. Slavitt was CEO of Ingenix, a health data analytics firm at the center of a $50 million settlement in 2009 with then-New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and a $350 million settlement with the American Medical Association. Cuomo and the AMA charged that Ingenix supplied databases to insurance companies that fraudulently calculated reimbursements for out-of-network medical services provided to policyholders, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation. Related article. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#3 ...was linked seven years ago to a massive medical data fraud scheme that resulted in what was then the largest settlement ever by an insurance company. In this administration, it's called experience. |
Posted by: Raj 2015-08-03 11:29 |
#2 "Memory-Hole activation complete" |
Posted by: Frank G on the road 2015-08-03 10:10 |
#1 Andy Slavitt looks suspiciously like Jonathan Grueber of yesteryear--but that was yesterday and so long ago. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2015-08-03 07:03 |