Author: Elizabeth Blessing
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The doctor group serving America’s biggest retirement community will pay $541.5 million over Medicare Advantage billing
The Villages Health System LLC, the doctor group that treats residents of The Villages, Florida, has agreed to pay $541.5 million to resolve claims that it submitted false diagnosis codes to inflate its Medicare Advantage payments. The deal, announced by the Justice Department on August 26, 2026, is one of the largest Medicare Advantage billing…
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Medicaid will pay only one month of old hospital bills for adults who apply after January 1
Right now, if you land in the hospital, don’t have Medicaid yet, and don’t get around to applying for three months, Medicaid can still pick up bills going back to the day you first qualified. Starting with applications filed on January 1, 2027, that cushion for one large group of adults shrinks to a single…
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A court blocked the food stamp soda and candy bans in five states, and shoppers there can still buy both
Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Tennessee and West Virginia all rolled out plans this year to stop food-stamp shoppers from using their benefits on soda and candy. A federal court in Washington threw out all five bans in June, and more than two months later, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s own tracking page still shows the same…
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Chrysler is recalling 1,271,294 Ram pickups because seat belt anchors were never bolted down
Chrysler has told federal safety regulators that second-row seat belt buckle anchors on more than 1.27 million Ram 1500 pickups were never bolted to the truck’s body during assembly. For any household that depends on a Ram to get kids to school, gear to a job site, or a family on a road trip, an…
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The SEC says a crypto operator took $425 million and spent $51 million on homes, cars and a yacht
Federal regulators say a Florida crypto entrepreneur ran one of the largest digital-asset Ponzi schemes on record, using a pitch that will sound familiar to anyone who has gotten a message promising guaranteed monthly returns. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s complaint accuses Goliath Ventures, Inc. and its founder, Christopher A. Delgado, of raising at least…
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Uber is cutting about 10 percent of its staff and ending remote work for all but 1 percent
Uber told its employees this week that roughly one in ten jobs at the company is being eliminated, and that almost everyone still on staff who currently works from home will be expected to move into an office. The announcement, posted under CEO Dara Khosrowshahi’s name on September 2, is aimed at flattening Uber’s management…
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July’s job losses were erased in revision, turning a 23,000 drop into a 21,000 gain
When the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in early August that the economy had lost 23,000 jobs in July, it looked like the first genuinely soft month of 2026 — a sign that higher borrowing costs and slower business spending were finally showing up in hiring. On September 4, the agency’s August jobs report quietly…
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Corporate profits per unit rose at a 43 percent annual rate last quarter while real hourly pay fell 3.3 percent
The federal government’s latest look at how the economy split its gains between businesses and workers shows a lopsided quarter. Nonfinancial corporations booked a sharp jump in profit earned per unit sold this spring, even as the typical worker’s paycheck lost buying power once inflation is factored in. For a household budgeting around a fixed…
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More homeowners are 90 days behind on a mortgage than a year ago, at 1.52 percent against 1.29
Homeowners are falling seriously behind on their mortgages at a higher rate than they were a year ago, even as the country’s total mortgage debt actually shrank over the same three months. New data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows the share of mortgage balances sliding into serious delinquency climbed to 1.52…
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A budget request would end LIHEAP, the $4 billion program that helps pay heating bills, weeks before winter
The White House’s budget blueprint for the fiscal year that begins October 1 calls for eliminating the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program entirely, zeroing out the roughly $4 billion a year the federal government sends to states to help households cover heating and cooling bills. The request lands just as state energy offices wrap…
