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2012 » Feb » 01
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Military health care carrier hit with $10M fine

USA Today: WASHINGTON – One of the Pentagon's major health care contractors, which is fighting to keep its multibillion-dollar contract, recently paid a $10 million fine to the federal government to settle a Justice Department suit over claims the company failed to pass on savings to the military.

TriWest Healthcare Alliance, a consortium of non-profit groups in the West, is one of three main contractors for Tricare, the Pentagon's health care program. It paid the government in September to settle a case in which four employees claimed the company defrauded the government by keeping savings it generated while working on the contract.

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Tags: Federal government of the United States, Health care, United States Department of Defense, Contract, UnitedHealth Group, Whistleblower, TriWest Healthcare Alliance, TRICARE

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