Author: Elizabeth Blessing
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A Virginia system told Humana patients to rebook the appointments they canceled after a deal landed August 31
Mary Washington Healthcare and Humana spent most of the summer locked in a contract standoff that put tens of thousands of Medicare Advantage members in the Fredericksburg, Virginia area on notice: keep your doctors, or lose your in-network coverage on September 1. Some patients didn’t wait to find out how it ended. They canceled appointments…
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New York regulators cut health insurers’ 2027 request from 20.6 percent to 6 percent, saving about $1.6 billion
New York’s insurance regulator just did something most states haven’t: it finished the job. On September 4, 2026, the state Department of Financial Services approved final 2027 health insurance premiums for the individual and small-group markets, and the number that survived is a fraction of what insurers originally asked for. If you’ve seen headlines this…
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Prosecutors say a shell company billed Medicare $1.3 billion in five months using the stolen identities of elderly Americans
A federal grand jury in Boston has indicted a Georgian national on a money-laundering conspiracy charge connected to a durable-medical-equipment company that prosecutors say billed Medicare and other health insurers $1.3 billion in fraudulent claims over five months. The claims relied, prosecutors say, on the stolen identities of elderly and disabled Americans, many of whom…
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A mortgage vendor breach is paying $75 with no paperwork, closing November 6
SitusAMC Holdings Corporation is not a lender or a loan servicer you’d recognize from a monthly statement. It’s a back-office vendor that processes loan data and paperwork for mortgage companies, which is exactly why most people who got a breach notice from it this year had never heard the name before. Now a $5.3 million…
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Five people are charged with signing dead homeowners’ names to take over vacant houses
Donnie Russell is accused of doing something federal prosecutors call especially cruel: signing a dead homeowner’s own name on a deed to take that person’s house. He is one of five people a federal grand jury in Louisville indicted on August 19, 2026, over a scheme prosecutors say went after vacant houses left behind when…
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Chrysler is recalling 239,131 Ram pickups whose backup camera can go dark
Chrysler has told federal safety regulators that 239,131 Ram 1500 pickups built for the 2025 and 2026 model years can lose their rearview camera picture without any warning light or error message. The cause is a radio software glitch, not a broken camera or a bad wire, and the fix will cost you nothing. But…
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Jeep is recalling 328,381 SUVs whose rear springs can fall off, and an earlier repair does not count
If you own a Jeep Grand Cherokee and already had a rear suspension recall fixed in the past few years, that repair does not close the book. Chrysler parent FCA US, LLC has opened a new recall covering 328,381 SUVs whose rear coil springs may be installed wrong and can detach while the vehicle is…
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Two Florida men shipped braces nobody ordered and billed Medicare $34.8 million
A brace shows up in the mail. Nobody in the house ordered it, no doctor ever mentioned it, and it sits in its box because no one needs it. That is not a shipping error — it is the exact scheme two Florida men just went to federal prison for running on a $34.8 million…
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Two people were extradited from France over a timeshare scheme that took $40 million from owners
A call saying a timeshare has finally sold, but a “tax” or “transfer fee” needs to go out by wire before the money can be released, is the setup federal prosecutors say drove an alleged $40 million scheme. On September 1, two defendants extradited from France, Christian Felipe Rodriguez Peraza and his wife, Brenda Tamayo…
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Home prices rose 2.1 percent over the year, the slowest in a decade, and fell in four states
The government’s broadest measure of home values rose just 2.1 percent over the year ending in June, the smallest year-over-year gain the Federal Housing Finance Agency has logged for a second quarter in more than a decade. If you already own a home, that slowdown is quietly changing how much equity you can borrow against.…
