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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: billing

billing stories: 3 news summaries

(Newser) - Time Warner is scrapping plans to test a new way of billing for Internet access in the wake of a furious backlash from consumers and politicians, BusinessWeek reports. The No. 2 cable provider had planned to bill people in a handful of test markets based on how much bandwidth they... More »

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Internet service providers • billing • Time Warner Cable • Internet access

CEO Arrested in Plan to Use Homeless in Medicare Scam

Scheme recruited LA's skid row denizens to bilk feds for unnecessary service fees

Aug 6, 08 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The CEO of a Los Angeles hospital was arrested today for defrauding Medicare by using the city’s homeless to fill empty beds, the AP reports. The FBI says Rudra Sabaratnam, of City of Angels hospital, recruited the homeless in a scheme to charge for unnecessary health services and keep... More »

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health care • fraud • homeless • scam • hospital • spending • billing • kickbacks

Giuliani Calls Juggling $579K ‘Appropriate’

Candidate says money was reimbursed,
blasts ‘political hit job’

Nov 30, 07 12:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani has hit back against allegations of book-cooking, saying it was “perfectly appropriate” to bill $579,082 in security detail fees to obscure mayoral agencies, and the NYPD repaid the agencies in full. The cops were slow in paying their bills, he explained, and the peculiar invoicing was... More »

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Rudy Giuliani • money laundering • America's Mayor • billing • Election 2008

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