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In what could be a groundbreaking legal case, Texas is calling on Planned Parenthood to repay millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursements, along with substantial fines, as reported by the Associated Press. The state has filed a lawsuit under the federal False Claims Act, asserting improper payments. This lawsuit insists that the agency reimburse a minimum of $17 million in Medicaid payments

Texas wants Planned Parenthood to give back millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursements — and pay far more in fines on top of that — in a lawsuit that appears to be the first of its kind brought by a state against the largest abortion provider in the U.S. A hearing was set for Tuesday in front of U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who earlier this year put access to the most common

The personal information of more than 700,000 Medicaid beneficiaries in Indiana has been exposed in a data breach in late May. The Family and Social Services Administration announced on Friday afternoon that a third party contractor had experienced a data breach. “The names, addresses, case numbers and Medicaid numbers of more than 744,000 members of Indiana Medicaid were exposed in the breach

At least 26 patients have accused a top Arkansas doctor of holding them against their will for days or weeks at a psychiatric unit, where they rarely received care and were given strong sedatives without their consent, NBC News reported. Dr. Brian Hyatt, chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board — charged with disciplining doctors in the state — reportedly marked 99.95% of his Medicaid