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In another False Claims Act win for patient care, New York-Presbyterian/Brooklyn Methodist Hospital has agreed to pay $17.3 million for its failure to adequately supervise chemotherapy infusion services, paying kickbacks to doctors based on their patient referral volume, and billing for physician services provided by non-physicians. From this figure, the federal government will receive $16.410 million, and New...
The NY Times reports that hundreds of children were poisoned last year from cinnamon-flavored applesauce pouches that were traced to the Ecuadorian company Negasmart, which supplies to Austrofood and distributes the product under the name Wanabana. The FDA, working with Ecuadorean investigators, traced the contamination of the Sri Lankan imported cinnamon to a spice grinder in Ecuador that likely intentionally...