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ChristianaCare to pay $7.6M to settle Medicaid false claims charges

Betsy PriceBusiness, arts grants, Headlines

  Attorney General Kathy Jennings announced Friday that ChristianaCare Health System will pay $7,666,379 to Delaware’s Medicaid program to settle federal and Delaware false claim allegations. The case, which was initiated by a whistleblower, alleges that ChristianaCare provided free or below-market value support services to non-employee doctors, who then referred patients to the health system. These referrals in turn led …

Chancery Court won’t force ChristianaCare to give COVID patient Ivermectin

Betsy PriceGovernment, Headlines

The seal of the Delaware Court of Chancery.   A Delaware Chancery Court judge on Thursday said she was going to deny a request to force ChristianaCare Health System to immediately treat a COVID-19 patient with  Ivermectin. Mary Ellen DeMarco had asked the court for a preliminary injunction that would make ChristianaCare provide the drug, most commonly used in humans …