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Decoding Prime
"This series investigates how a major California hospital chain boosts it's bottom line through aggressive billing practices"
Tags: Prime Healthcare Services; septicemia; Medicare; broadcast
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Fee For Service: Caremark Faces Heat for Paying Doctors Who Sent It Patients
The Wall Street Journal reports that "When Bruce A. Marguilis left the home-health-care business last year, the physician was a millionaire many times over. But not from practicing medicine. The internist was a kind of super-salesman for Caremark International Inc., the U.S. leader in home intravenous therapy.... But now Dr. Margulis is a prime focus of a broad federal investigation into alleged kickbacks by Caremark and other health-care companies to doctors for patient referrals..."