News from July 2017
By DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Thursday, July 20, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Bipartisan Legislation to Improve the Medicare Program."
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding reports of “patient brokers" who are serving as an intermediary and profiting from recruiting patients seeking treatment for addiction. The letter, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price, M.D., announced today the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, involving 412 charged defendants across 41 federal districts, including 115...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Four individuals were charged yesterday in federal court in Boston for their roles in a conspiracy to traffic counterfeit steroids, including testosterone and trenbolone, to bodybuilders.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on the Social Security and Medicare Trustees’ Reports...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Chuck Grassley of Iowa are calling for answers from the Missouri National Guard on what it will do to address findings that one of its contractors retaliated against contractor employee Michael Sandknop after he made disclosures that were protected under whistleblower statutes.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today issued the following statement regarding President Trump’s nomination of Rostin “Russ" Behnam to serve as a Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two former staff employees of a member of the U.S. House of Representatives have been indicted following an investigation into the circulation of private, nude images and videos of the member and the member’s spouse, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips and Matthew R. Verderosa, Chief of the United States Capitol Police.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper, (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, Ben Cardin (D-Md.), ranking member of the EPW Subcommittee on Transportation ...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Effective Thursday, July 13, fire restrictions are in effect for all public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management Cody, Lander and Worland field offices.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Democratic staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today issued a report detailing that cuts proposed in the Administration’s FY18 budget to a variety of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) counterterrorism programs could threaten efforts to combat...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: HAMMOND- Acting United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson announced today that a federal grand jury returned a ten -count indictment against Fort Wayne physician Dr. James E. Ranochak and two Fort Wayne area pharmacists, Brent A. Losier and Charles N. Ringger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Karen Hill, the former Insys Therapeutics Regional Manager for the southeastern United States, has pled guilty to conspiring to pay illegal kickbacks to doctors in exchange for their prescribing the instant-release fentanyl drug Subsys.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Hearing
By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at an Environment Subcommittee markup of the, “Drinking Water System Improvement Act:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human (HHS) Secretary Tom Price, M.D., announced today the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, involving 412 charged defendants across 41 federal districts, including 115 doctors, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following statement regarding the 2017 Medicare Trustees Report.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Alleged Fraudulent Billings in Brooklyn and Queens Exceed $125 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced today to six years and three months in prison for a gun charge and assaulting a federal officer, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Taurean Amadeus Johnson, 30, previously pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and assaulting a federal officer after a court appearance.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Board of Trustees for the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds released their annual reports on the financial health of these important programs. This year’s reports found that...
