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Washington state Medicaid, public employee patients see changes to hepatitis C treatment
2015-01-01 01:04:37| Biotech - Topix.net
More people in Washington state who are on Medicaid or who get their health coverage through the Public Employee Benefit Board program will have access to revolutionary hepatitis C treatments. As new hepatitis C treatments came to market over the past year, the Washington State Health Care Authority has tweaked its policy for providing those treatments to thousands of patients.
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Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Announces That a Unique...
2014-11-10 23:55:26| Biotech - Topix.net
Anika Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services has assigned a unique Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System code, or J-Code, to its product MONOVISCA . The issuance of this code by CMS sets national Medicare reimbursement rates for the product.
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New York City is Accused of Massive Medicaid Fraud Scheme
2014-10-29 13:50:51| IT Services - Topix.net
Federal authorities say they've uncovered a long-running Medicaid scam that extracted millions in fraudulent gains, and was run by ... New York City. A civil fraud lawsuit announced on Monday alleges that the city, through its Medicaid biller, Computer Sciences Corporation , used a sophisticated scheme of computerized fraud to violate Medicaid reimbursement rules, leading to millions in illegitimate payments.
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UPDATE 3-U.S. sues NYC, Computer Sciences for alleged Medicaid fraud
2014-10-28 02:24:43| IT Services - Topix.net
The United States on Monday sued New York City and Computer Sciences Corp, accusing them of defrauding Medicaid into making millions of dollars of improper reimbursements by exploiting a computerized billing system that the company designed. According to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the defendants took advantage of the system's automatic default settings, enabling the city to improperly boost the amount and speed of reimbursements for services provided to infants and toddlers with developmental delays.
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Illinois Medicaid restricts use of hepatitis drug
2014-07-31 06:02:16| Biotech - Topix.net
After spending an estimated $16 million this fiscal year on Sovaldi, which holds promise for a cure for the liver-damaging disease, the state agency headed by Julie Hamos approved the restrictions July 10. The rules limit the drug to sicker patients and bar it for anyone with a history of drug or alcohol abuse within the past year.
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