Casey Ross writes: STAT exclusively reported on Monday that the Department of Justice is investigating Semler Scientific for possible violations of the False Claims Act. Semler’s only product, QuantaFlo, is used to test patients for peripheral artery disease. STAT reported last year that QuantaFlo, which uses a proprietary algorithm, generated a flood of questionable, and lucrative, diagnoses for UnitedHealth and other insurers. Each diagnosis is worth about...
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Hacking at UnitedHealth unit cripples a swath of the US health system: What to know
by Darius Tahir, KFF Health News Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainEarly in the morning of Feb. 21, Change Healthcare, a company unknown to most Americans that plays a huge role in the U.S. health system, issued a brief statement saying some of its applications were “currently unavailable.” By the afternoon, the company described the situation as...