Justice Department probes Alere over Medicare, Medicaid billing

(Reuters) – Diagnostic-testing company Alere Inc has received a U.S. Department of Justice subpoena seeking patient-billing records related to Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare, the company said on Wednesday. The subpoena, which was sent to Alere’s Toxicology unit on July 1, asked for billing records dating back to 2010 for patient samples tested at the company’s Texas pain management laboratory, Alere said in a statement. “So, the shares are actually recovering from getting crushed earlier in the day.” Alere said it was fully cooperating with the investigation and believed that matters related to the subpoena were not material.
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Knife attack kills 19 at Japan disability center, official says

A police officer is seen in a facility for the disabled, where a knife-wielding man attacked, in SagamiharaBy Issei Kato SAGAMIHARA, Japan (Reuters) – Nineteen people were killed and 25 wounded after an attack by a knife-wielding man at a facility for the disabled in central Japan early on Tuesday, a government official said, in Japan&;s worst mass killing in decades. Police have arrested Satoshi Uematsu, a 26-year-old former employee at the facility in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Tokyo, a Kanagawa prefecture official said. Uematsu had turned himself in, the official told a news conference carried on public broadcaster NHK.

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