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Medicaid Audit Program: High Costs, Small Benefits

Medicaid audit program, healthcare reform and small businesses, stress, Greece and environmental regulations.

Feds Offer Road Map For Medicare Investigative Stories

To find great investigative Medicare stories in 2012, look no further than the federal Office of Inspector General.

The False Claims Act: The law that makes fraud whistles blow

Investigative reporters love whistleblowers. In health fraud cases, whistleblowers often use the False Claims Act, motivated not only by a sense of injustice, but also by the promise of a payday. It’s important to understand these motivations when pursuing stories and to understand the inner workings of this law.

Covering Medicare Spending, Part 3: Tips from The Wall Street Journal's Secrets of the System

When Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, announced it was suing to gain access to information about individual providers in the Medicare claims database, investigative reporters everywhere started salivating.