Author: Elizabeth Blessing
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Twenty-six drugmakers have now agreed to charge Medicaid the lower prices Europe pays, covering 89 percent of the branded drug market.
The Trump administration says 26 pharmaceutical manufacturers have now agreed to sell drugs to state Medicaid programs at the same reduced prices those companies already charge buyers in other wealthy countries. The latest round, announced August 31, 2026, added nine more drugmakers to the list and pushed the share of the U.S. branded prescription drug…
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Medicare barred 11 medical-supply companies over $3.4 billion in suspect billing, including charges filed for patients who had already died.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said this week it is cutting off future Medicare Advantage and Part D payments to 11 medical equipment suppliers tied to more than $3.4 billion in suspected fraudulent billing. The agency says all 11 companies billed for equipment supposedly provided to Medicare beneficiaries who had already died, among…
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Federal flood insurance loses the authority to write new policies at 11:59 p.m. on September 30, and realtors count about 40,000 home closings a month riding on it.
The federal government’s authority to sell and renew flood insurance policies is due to expire at 11:59 p.m. on September 30, 2026, unless Congress passes another extension before then. That deadline sits at the center of a housing market that leans heavily on the National Flood Insurance Program, the federally backed system that insures roughly…
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Prosecutors say a Utah woman housed homeless Medicaid patients in unsupervised homes and billed $4 million for therapy
A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City indicted a Salt Lake City woman on health care fraud charges last month, accusing her of billing Utah Medicaid more than $4 million for substance-abuse therapy that prosecutors say was often never provided at all. Jazzamin Tashay Clark, 43, allegedly recruited people experiencing homelessness into “sober living”…
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Federal enforcement of the hospital price posting rules began in April
Hospitals were required to start following a new, stricter set of federal price-posting rules on January 1 of this year. But the government didn’t start enforcing those specific new requirements right away. Enforcement of the updated rules didn’t begin until three months later, on April 1, and that gap was deliberate. A Rule Change Tracing…
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The recalled cleaners were sold only in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and a refund means registering the bottle
Clorox Manufacturing Company of Puerto Rico recalled about 6.3 million bottles of scented Mistolin and Lestoil cleaners on September 3, 2026, and the company’s own recall notice makes a point that’s easy to miss in a headline built around the Clorox name: these products were never distributed outside Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.…
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Clorox is refunding 6.3 million bottles of Mistolin and Lestoil cleaner
Clorox Manufacturing Company of Puerto Rico is recalling about 6.3 million bottles of scented Mistolin and Lestoil multi-purpose cleaners after testing turned up the possibility of bacterial contamination. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall on September 3, 2026, and the company’s remedy is a full refund, not a replacement bottle or a…
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He owes $77,683,091.96 after spending investor money on a plane, a cabin and an $80,000 hunting trip
A federal judge in Utah ordered Matthew Shane Perkins to repay investors $77,683,091.96, an amount spelled out down to the penny in the court’s restitution order. That number isn’t money already returned to anyone. It’s the debt a judge says Perkins now owes on top of a 15-year prison sentence handed down September 3, 2026.…
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A former Regions Bank employee is permanently barred from banking over check fraud
A former relationship banker at a Regions Bank branch in Memphis has been permanently prohibited from working in banking again after federal regulators found she took part in a scheme that cashed counterfeit and fraudulent checks. The Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors finalized the consent order in early August and announced it publicly days later,…
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The three employees banned this month worked at Centra in Indiana, Tongass in Alaska and OneAZ in Arizona
Three credit unions in three different states each had a former employee permanently barred from the industry this year, and the National Credit Union Administration named every institution and individual when it announced the orders. None of the three credit unions is in any regulatory trouble itself; each order applies only to the person who…
