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<title>Amerigroup swings to loss as sales climb</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179940124</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 21:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  by the U.S. and the state of Illinois, alleging the company wrongfully denied coverage to  ...  denied coverage to pregnant women eligible for Medicaid. The company said it expects the charge  ...
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<title>AMERIGROUP Corporation Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179928398</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 20:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  related to the operation of our former Illinois subsidiary.&quot; Carlson continued, &quot;While closing those chapters,  ...  regulations governing the healthcare industry; changes in Medicaid and Medicare payment levels and methodologies; liabilities  ...
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<title>Health Care Marketplace - Amerigroup Settles Medicaid Lawsuit Over Denial of Coverage to Pregnant Women for $225</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179904307</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 17:32 GMT</pubDate>
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... Health Care Marketplace | Amerigroup Settles Medicaid Lawsuit Over Denial of Coverage to Pregnant  ...  enter a $225 million settlement agreement with Illinois and the federal government over allegations that  ...
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<title>Mercy Health Plans Announces New Name for Their Medicare Advantage Plans: Mercy Medicare Advantage</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179896416</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 16:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  which serve Medicare members in St. Louis, Illinois and Southwest Missouri, previously were offered using  ...  Plans has contracts with the Centers for Medicaid &amp; Medicare Services (CMS) to offer these  ...
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<title>Health Plan From Obama Spurs Debate</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179843959</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 10:56 GMT</pubDate>
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...  in tax-supported health programs like Medicare and Medicaid. What were trying to do, said one  ...  care is unnecessary. Both Mr. Obama, of Illinois, and his Republican rival, Senator John McCain  ...
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<title>WellCare revises past financial statements to include refunds owed to Florida, Illinois Medicaid programs</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179827755</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 08:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  financial statements from 2004 through mid-2007 to include refunds owed to the Florida and Illinois Medicaid programs, the During the affected time period, WellCare officials said the company overstated earnings  ...
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<title>Obama&apos;s health care goal faces big obstacles</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179805430</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 05:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  in tax-supported health programs like Medicare and Medicaid. What were trying to do, said one  ...  care is unnecessary. Both Mr. Obama, of Illinois, and his Republican rival, Senator John McCain  ...
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<title>Obama&apos;s Health RX</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179797796</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 04:52 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of the remaining uninsured are eligible for Medicaid but haven&apos;t signed up - mainly because  ...  states: California, New York, Florida, Texas and Illinois.) But now they&apos;d be eligible for the  ...
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<title>Amerigroup will settle fraud suit for $225 million</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179783668</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 02:12 GMT</pubDate>
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... Amerigroup, a Beach-based health insurer that specializes in providing managed care for Medicaid beneficiaries, will pay the U.S. government and state of Illinois in the settlement but will not admit wrongdoing Amerigroup Corp., which faced $334 million  ...
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<title>Amerigroup Corp agrees to settle</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179776264</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 00:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the federal government and the state of Illinois plus $9 million in legal fees, the  ...  avoided pregnant women and others while receiving Medicaid money designed to assure services to them  ...
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<title>Amerigroup Announces Settlement in Largest Ever False Claims Case According to Goldberg Kohn Goldberg Kohn Represented Whistleblower</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179774243</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 00:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  under the False Claims Act and the Illinois Whistleblower Reward and Protection Act, according to  ...  Aid (IDPA) to provide healthcare to Illinois Medicaid recipients. The jury found that Amerigroup deliberately  ...
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<title>Amerigroup Announces Settlement in Largest Ever False Claims Case According to Goldberg Kohn</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179766933</link>
<pubDate>22 Jul 2008 23:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  under the False Claims Act and the Illinois Whistleblower Reward and Protection Act, according to  ...  Aid (IDPA) to provide healthcare to Illinois Medicaid recipients. The jury found that Amerigroup deliberately  ...
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<title>Amerigroup OKs $225 million settlement</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179763291</link>
<pubDate>22 Jul 2008 22:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Cleveland Tyson, a former lobbyist for Amerigroup&apos;s Illinois subsidiary. The federal government later joined the  ...  for needy patients and in return received Medicaid money designed to make certain all patients  ...
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<title>It Takes Two to Restate</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179760063</link>
<pubDate>22 Jul 2008 22:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  debt and derivatives problems; WellCare&apos;s to state Medicaid and Medicare dealings questioned by regulators. Two  ...  Medicaid; and its Medicaid contract with the Illinois Department of Health and Family Services, providing  ...
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<title>US: WellCare to Restate Years of Results</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179748406</link>
<pubDate>22 Jul 2008 21:14 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of financial results in response to a Medicaid fraud investigation it has been embroiled in  ...  low-income adults and children in Florida and Illinois, and understated liabilities by about $46 million.  ...
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