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Florida Hospital To Pay $1M Settlement In False Claims Case
The settlement comes in what has been a closely watched Medicare overbilling case filed against Halifax Hospital. The Department of Justice still must sign off on the settlement. Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp. swatted away a class-action suit over last summer's data breach, but more are pending. Also in the news, a possible health worker strike in New York, and a North Carolina mayor walks to Washington to focus attention on the difficulties of rural hospitals.
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