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  Trump Orders Indefinite Halt to Major Federal Assistance Programs that Support Vulnerable Americans

  President Trump's administration instructed federal assistance agencies to halt the expenditure of all grants and loans besides those that provide direct funding to individuals needing assistance.

• America’s New Health Care Bill, An Expert's View

  A health care economics expert offers a tour of the new legislation in America, as House Republicans have revealed their long-awaited replacement for Obamacare.

• SEC, US Attorney's Office Probe Blood-Testing Startup Theranos

  Federal prosecutors are now investigating Theranos, a blood-testing company. The company allegedly misled its investors over the efficacy of its products and the company's ability to handle investments.

• Justice Department probes possible fraud case involving creams; 1 ad promoted by ex-NFL player Brett Favre

  The Justice Department is examining firms for health care fraud involving specialty creams. An ad for these types of creams, catered mainly to the elderly and athletes, was done by former NFL player Brett Favre.

• Millennium Health to pay Georgia $6.5M to resolve allegations of unnecessary drug testing

  Georgia will get $6.5 million as part of over $250 million of nationwide settlement with Millennium Health over allegation that the drug testing company billed federal health care programs for unnecessary urine drug testing.

• Kmart pays $1.4 million to settle U.S. charges over Medicare inducements

  Kmart Corp has paid $1.4 million to settle U.S. allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act by inducing Medicare beneficiaries to fill prescriptions at its pharmacies, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday.

• Obama ready to sign bipartisan fix for Medicare doctor payments

  President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he was ready to sign bipartisan legislation to change the formula for reimbursing Medicare physicians, while the U.S. Senate's top Democrat appeared open to allowing a vote on the measure.

• NYC doctor known for radio ads settles Medicare fraud case

  Gilbert Lederman, a former director of radiation oncology at Staten Island University Hospital, agreed to pay $2.35 million to resolve claims that he defrauded Medicare by seeking reimbursement for an experimental cancer treatment he claimed to have pioneered in the United States.

• Clinic that treated Joan Rivers cited for multiple failings

  The New York outpatient clinic where the late Joan Rivers suffered cardiac arrest did not follow all the standard protocols during the throat procedures it conducted on the comedian, according to a government agency report released on Monday.

• Nursing home chain to pay $38 million over claims of deficient care

  Extendicare Health Services Inc has agreed to pay $38 million to the U.S. government and eight states to settle allegations that it billed Medicare and Medicaid for substandard nursing care and unnecessary rehabilitation therapy.