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        "uri": "/2024/03/27/employers-take-irs-offer-return-225m-in-pandemic-employee-retention-tax-credits/",
        "title": "Employers take IRS offer, return $225M in 'improper' pandemic employee tax credits",
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        "prettyDate": "March 27, 2024",
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        "summary": "So far, 500 employers who improperly received the tax credits to retain workers during the pandemic have returned more than $225 million to the IRS as part of a voluntary disclosure program that ended on March 22.",
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        "prettyDate": "March 27, 2024",
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        "summary": "Benefytt Technologies, operating under various names such as Health Insurance Innovations, used aggressive marketing in a scheme to lure consumers in search of Obamacare health plans, says the Federal Trade Commission.",
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        "uri": "/2024/03/26/baltimore-sues-eli-lilly-novo-nordisk-over-insulin-price-gouging/",
        "title": "Baltimore sues Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk over insulin price 'gouging'",
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        "prettyDate": "March 26, 2024",
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        "summary": "The city of Baltimore, which paid more than $11 million in 2023 for diabetes medications through its self-funded plan, is suing the drug manufacturers, for allegedly conspiring to artificially hike the price of insulin.",
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        "uri": "/2024/03/25/change-cyberattack-may-damage-credit-at-smaller-health-care-providers-fitch/",
        "title": "Change cyberattack may damage credit at smaller health care providers: Fitch",
        "byline": "Alan Goforth",
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        "prettyDate": "March 25, 2024",
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        "summary": "The weeks-long outage at Change Healthcare, which was hit with a cyberattack, could negatively impact the credit of smaller providers and pharmacies that depend on it for financial services, warns the credit rating agency.",
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        "uri": "/2024/03/25/digital-diabetes-management-tools-fail-to-deliver-results-drive-up-costs/",
        "title": "Digital diabetes management tools fail to deliver results, drive up costs",
        "byline": "Alan Goforth",
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        "prettyDate": "March 25, 2024",
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        "summary": "For patients using tools in the remote patient monitoring category, annual spending is projected to increase by $2,002 for commercial insurance patients.",
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        "title": "Employers, workers pay the price as workplace misconduct is on the rise",
        "byline": "Alan Goforth",
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        "prettyDate": "March 22, 2024",
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        "summary": "Misconduct may be increasing in some industries compared to others that have embraced work from home or hybrid work environments.",
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        "byline": "Alan Goforth",
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        "prettyDate": "March 21, 2024",
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        "summary": "A recent survey by FlexJobs founds that 26% of workers would accept a 5% reduction in pay.",
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        "title": "UnitedHealth pays out $2B in advances to struggling providers hit by cyberattack",
        "byline": "Alan Goforth",
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        "prettyDate": "March 21, 2024",
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        "summary": "Following the Change Healthcare cyberattack, UnitedHealth Group has announced that it has advanced payments to address bottlenecks in the payments system and it will start releasing new medical claims software this week.",
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        "title": "Workers want more health benefit options, employers concerned about cost, survey finds",
        "byline": "Alan Goforth",
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        "prettyDate": "March 20, 2024",
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        "summary": "Forty-two percent of employees said they would rather receive better health insurance than a raise this year.",
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        "byline": "Alan Goforth",
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        "prettyDate": "March 19, 2024",
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        "summary": "One in 10 employees experiences mental health issues because of work.",
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