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Lose weight, gain huge debt: NY provider has sued more than 300 patients who had bariatric surgery

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Government lets health plans that ripped off Medicare keep the money

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Did your health plan rip off Medicare?

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How Medicare Advantage plans dodged auditors and overcharged taxpayers by millions

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How Medicare Advantage plans dodged auditors and overcharged taxpayers by millions

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Investigating private equity’s stealthy takeover of health care across cities and specialties

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Device makers have funneled billions to orthopedic surgeons who use their products

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Humana health plan overcharged Medicare by nearly $200 million, federal audit finds

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he prepares to give the National Thanksgiving Turkey a presidential pardon during the traditional event in the Rose Garden of the White House November 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump’s pardons included health care execs behind massive frauds

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This Sept. 1, 2016 photo shows visitors of Santa Fe Plaza pass by an image of La Conquistadora, oldest statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the United States, as organizers prepare for the annual Santa Fe Fiesta. For centuries, northern New Mexico Hispanic residents have held an elaborate festival in Santa Fe in honor of Spanish conquistador Don Diego De Vargas’ who reclaimed the city following an American Indian revolt. But after 301 years, an emboldened group of Native American activists say it’s time to change a celebration centered around the conquest of New Mexico’s Pueblo tribes. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras) (AP)

How a company misappropriated Native American culture to sell health insurance

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Whistleblower alleges Medicare fraud at iconic Seattle-based health plan

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Avoidable sepsis infections send thousands of seniors to gruesome deaths

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Purdue Pharma’s sales pitch downplayed risks of opioid addiction

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FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. Overdoses don't happen just to heroin addicts _ patients who legally use strong painkillers called opioids are at risk in the nation’s epidemic, too. A new study says when patients were prescribed an overdose antidote along with those medications, they made fewer painkiller-related visits to the emergency room. The study released on June 27, 2016, went a step further _ to see if the take-home antidote idea also could work for patients with chronic pain who may not realize they could accidentally get into trouble with prescription painkillers such as Oxycontin, Vicodin and others. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File) (AP)

How rival opioid makers sought to cash in on alarm over OxyContin’s dangers

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“Bill of the month”: A college student’s $17,850 drug test

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Medicare fails to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in lab overcharges

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, photo, part of the UnitedHealth Group, Inc. campus is shown, in Minnetonka, Minn. UnitedHealth Group Inc. releases quarterly results before market opens Thursday April 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Jim Mone) (AP)

UnitedHealth doctored medicare records, overbilled U.S. by $1 billion, feds claim

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Follow the money: Sen. Grassley demands scrutiny of Medicare Advantage plans

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Justice Department joins lawsuit alleging massive Medicare fraud by UnitedHealth

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