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Tag: Federal Trade Commission

2 Rival Hospitals Want To Join Forces. Will Patients Lose?

2 Rival Hospitals Want To Join Forces. Will Patients Lose?

Health and Mediacal
In Terre Haute, Ind., 2 competing health centers wish to combine, a relocation that fans state will conserve clients cash and assist individuals live longer. Comparable medical facility combinations in Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina have actually resulted in federal government reports recording lessened care. In more than a lots states, certificates of public benefit (COPAs) allow offers like the one on the table in Indiana, although the Federal Trade Commission otherwise considers them unlawful since they lower competitors. As an outcome, the FTC has actually cautioned states to prevent COPAs and the mergers they produce. In Terre Haute, state regulators will choose whether to enable Union Hospital to buy the surrounding county's just other severe care center, Terre H...
Feds bust 2 phony anti-viruses sellers for millions in scams

Feds bust 2 phony anti-viruses sellers for millions in scams

Technology
Image: Dominik Tomaszewski/ Foundry If you regular specific parts of the web, you've likely seen pop-ups cautioning you that your PC is plagued with all way of creepy-crawly infections. The advertisement is phony, therefore is the software application that it asks you to spend for, according to a brand-new Federal Trade Commission claim versus a set of counterfeit anti-viruses sellers. FTC private investigators declare that Restoro and Reimage, 2 business lack the very same workplace in the Republic of Cyprus, have actually been scamming consumers with phony anti-viruses software application for many years. The 2 business have actually settled with American private investigators for $26 million USD, which the FTC states will be utilized to "supp...