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3. New Jersey cardiologist sentenced to 6.5 years, must repay $19M for Medicare fraud scheme
New Jersey cardiologist Jose Katz is sentenced to 6.5 years in prison and must repay the $19 million he reaped in the Garden State’s largest-ever Medicare fraud scheme.
2. ‘Software is not a medical device’: FDA medtech chief battles for control of mHealth
FDA medical device chief Jeffrey Shuren spars with the House Energy & Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on Health over the FDA’s proper role in regulating mobile health and medical applications.
1. Study: Rising prices, not rising demand, driving up cost of of U.S. healthcare
A new study concludes that price-increases are "the culprit" in the ever-increasing cost of U.S. healthcare, dispelling the myth that increasing demand has driven higher spending.
