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Hatch wants moratoriums to be used to stop Medicare fraud

Last updated Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 10:55am

MIAMI -- Nearly one year after receiving powerful new authority to impose moratoriums that would prevent potentially fraudulent Medicare providers from joining the program, federal health officials have yet to impose a single one, according to top Senate Republicans.

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Lynne Sladky/The Associated Press Pembroke Pines police officer Michael Banks directs traffic away from Walter C. Young Middle School in Pembroke Pines, Fla., Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. Schools in Broward County were on lockdown Wednesday, and police in bullet-proof vests guarded at least some entrances after authorities said an unidentified woman called a radio station, saying her husband might go to a school and start shooting.

Florida school lockdown lifted

Last updated Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 2:01pm

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. — Florida authorities lifted the lockdown of all schools in the nation's sixth-largest district Wednesday after police said the credibility of a threat made against students had diminished.

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