State Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the probe on Monday, citing media reports that show the insurer could have engaged in “deceptive practices.” No formal lawsuit has been filed.

Answer to the headline above: Only if traditional Medicare (TM) beneficiaries for Parts A and B would be OK with $10,000 as the cap and taxpayers don’t mind footing a bigger bill for Medicare. 

The money will be sent to eligible Medicare Part B members to offset a month of premiums. Payments will be taken from the Medicare Improvement Fund, used to enhance the program.

The states say they do not have enough time to enforce the rule, as CMS only issued an interim final rule this summer. The deadline for full compliance is Jan. 1.

The incident happened in 2019, when a third-party debt collector used by the diagnostics company had a hacker inside its network for over 8 months. In total, the incident exposed records from 27.5 million patients to hackers.

Independence Blue Cross, the largest medical insurance provider in the Philadelphia area, does not admit to wrongdoing. It was accused in a lawsuit backed by the U.S. Department of Justice of misrepresenting the severity of patient illnesses to juice risk-adjusted Medicare payments.

Since 2024, the VA-OIG has been using the popular AI chatbot to pull necessary records and data to conduct its regulatory audits, a media report reveals.

In total, Helen Boerman, an optometric physician, admitted to sending $11 million in false claims to various government healthcare programs. She will spend the next three-and-a-half years in prison.

Between July and December 2025, Irfan Fazil, MD used businesses including Yuma Mobile X-ray to bill Medicaid for thousands of unnecessary radiology services. 

The AHA recognized more than 2,700 U.S. healthcare organizations for managing patients with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and/or type 2 diabetes.