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Amazon will acquire One Medical in its latest health care endeavor : NPR
Amazon said it will acquire the primary care organization One Medical for $3.9 billion. Michael Sohn/AP hide caption toggle caption Michael Sohn/AP Amazon said it will acquire the primary care organization One Medical for $3.9 billion. Michael Sohn/AP Amazon plans to buy the primary care organization One Medical in a nearly $4 billion deal, adding to the growing list of the tech giant’s acquisitions and attempts to expand its reach in the health care industry. “We think health care is high on the list of experiences that need reinvention,” Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, said in a statement last week. One Medical is a membership-based primary…
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Our view: NJ alleges old-style health-benefits fraud in Wildwood | Latest Headlines
When we saw the words “health benefits fraud” in a headline recently, our first thought was finally, a step toward justice in the massive kickbacks to public employees in South Jersey for submitting bogus prescriptions to their lavishly funded state health plan. A federal investigation detailed at least $50 million in fraudulent claims, starting in 2015. Of the 200 involved — including school employees, firefighters and other government workers — many have been convicted but fewer sentenced. The public is rightly worried after so many years that one part of government may be going easy on lawbreakers in another part who greedily betrayed the generosity of taxpayers. State and federal…
