From the AUGUST 14TH ISSUE OF SAN DIEGO NORTH COUNTY'S INDEPENDENT FREE PRESS PUBLICATION THE PAPER
Tri-City Hospital Bans The Paper
Following last week’s cover story in The Paper that strongly opposed Measure A, an apparent serious First Amendment violaton occurred when Tri-City Hospital personnel took what The Paper’s editor and publisher, Lyle E. Davis, alleges was an illegal action by confiscating all copies of The Paper that had been delivered to the hospital waiting rooms.
The bond measure for which Tri-City Hospital District seeks support from the electorate would provide $589 million in funding for Tri-City Hospital...
Bob Allred, a driver for The Paper reported to Davis that while delivering papers he had been accosted by a young woman in the lobby of the hospital who told him she had been instructed to pick up all copies of The Paper and that he was not to deliver any others...
Under the law, Davis contends the hospital, being a public hospital, has no legal authority to deny distribution of The Paper, based on content, under the 1st Amendment of both the state of California constitution and the Federal Constitution...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Patrick Fitzgerald wins in medicare fraud case against Amerigroup
2-Amerigroup to pay $225 mln Medicaid settlement
Aug 14, 2008
WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Health insurer Amerigroup Corp (AGP.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) will pay $225 million to settle federal and state claims of fraud in a government health insurance program, the company and the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.
The pact, in coordination with Illinois officials, settles allegations that the company's health plans excluded pregnant women and unhealthy patients in the Illinois Medicaid plan. Medicaid is the state-federal health plan for the poor.
"A settlement of this magnitude sends the clear message that this office takes health care fraud very seriously," said Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney for the northern district of Illinois, in a statement...
A jury found Amerigroup liable under federal and state law in October 2006, and the court entered a $334 million judgment against Amerigroup...
Aug 14, 2008
WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Health insurer Amerigroup Corp (AGP.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) will pay $225 million to settle federal and state claims of fraud in a government health insurance program, the company and the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.
The pact, in coordination with Illinois officials, settles allegations that the company's health plans excluded pregnant women and unhealthy patients in the Illinois Medicaid plan. Medicaid is the state-federal health plan for the poor.
"A settlement of this magnitude sends the clear message that this office takes health care fraud very seriously," said Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney for the northern district of Illinois, in a statement...
A jury found Amerigroup liable under federal and state law in October 2006, and the court entered a $334 million judgment against Amerigroup...
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