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For government employees who get injured on the job, the Federal Employees’ Compensation program finances medical care and other resources.

Nine defendants, including three compounding pharmacy owners, a physician, two pharmacists and three patient recruiters, were sentenced yesterday for their respective roles in a years-long, multi-state scheme to defraud Tricare and workers' comp programs.

A Louisiana doctor was sentenced this week to four years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after pleading guilty in federal court to taking kickbacks from a Rogers company as part of worker's compensation fraud, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Northern District of Illinois convicted Chicago man yesterday for participating in conspiracy to pay approximately $25 million illegal kickbacks to generate business for durable medical equipment pharmacy. Mark Sorensen, 53, worked at Symed, a Chicago pharmacy paid for kickbacks.

Pandemic Response Accountability Committee PRAC Health Care Subgroup published report highlighted expanded access telehealth services in certain federal health care programs during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Focused on program integrity risks related to telehealth.