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        "uri": "/2023/11/30/texas-sues-pfizer-tris-pharma-for-alleged-medicaid-fraud-412-158457/",
        "title": "Texas sues Pfizer, Tris Pharma for alleged Medicaid fraud",
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        "summary": "The attorney general alleges in the complaints that, \"Pfizer knowingly distributed Quillivant to children on Medicaid despite the drug's pattern of failing quality control tests due to flawed manufacturing practices.\"",
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        "title": "Mail-order access to abortion pill blocked by U.S. 5th Circuit Court",
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        "summary": "The FDA failed to consider the cumulative effect of removing several important safeguards at the same time, Circuit Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod said.",
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        "title": "VSP, other vision care organizations sue Texas over 'un-American' law",
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        "summary": "The plaintiffs argue a new law would restrict vision care insurers' ability to communicate the cost of care and prevent patients from receiving important information.",
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        "summary": "The food and beverage company alleges that Aetna, which took more than $1.3 billion from Kraft Heinz since 2012 to pay providers for medical services, treats its expenses with less diligence because its health costs are self-funded.",
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        "title": "Employer wins unpaid overtime lawsuit brought by administrative employees",
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        "prettyDate": "March 17, 2023",
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        "summary": "Oil and gas company field technicians, who worked 84 hours a week or more, were considered exempt from the federal law addressing overtime pay because they were primarily administrative employees.",
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        "title": "DOJ dealt a loss in first-ever criminal wage-fixing trial",
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        "summary": "The defendant had been accused of conspiring with a competing physical therapist staffing company and others to fix wages for physical therapists.",
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