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Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
August 19, 2021

AG Fitch announces sentencing in $4-Million Medicaid Fraud case

Attorney General Lyn Fitch announced the sentencing of an individual involved in Medicaid fraud. On Tuesday a Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Faye Peterson, sentenced Regina Thomas owner of the former Total Healthcare Network, Inc., on five counts of Medicaid Fraud. The total amount of fraud came to $4,091,208.09 in over-billing and billing for services…
Culture  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
August 18, 2021

FDA authorizes third dose of COVID vaccine

Biden Administration prepares to roll out booster shots for Americans next month.  Late last week, the F.D.A. authorized a third dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for certain people with weakened immune systems. Immunocompromised people make up nearly 3% of the U.S. population. Top health officials announced that the Biden administration will begin offering…