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Doctor’s estate, UMC Physicians paying $3.28 million to settle claims

DALLAS — The estate of Dr. Kenneth Michael Rice and UMC Physicians (UMCP) have agreed to pay a total of $3,280,000.00 to the United States and the State of Texas to settle allegations that Dr. Rice and UMCP violated the False Claims Act, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.

Specifically, the United States alleged that Dr. Rice, by and through UMCP, submitted false claims for payment to Medicaid and Medicare related to in-person evaluation and management services, as well as critical care services. The estate of Dr. Rice agreed to pay the United States and the State of Texas $2 million, collectively, to settle the allegations. UMCP agreed to pay $1,280,000 to settle the matter. Both the Estate of Dr. Rice and UMCP fully cooperated with the investigation and, by settling, did not admit any wrongdoing or liability.

AutoCheck and CARFAX

I have reviewed the Autocheck site and have attempted to determine the difference between Carfax and AutoCheck. This is difficult to see and certainly difficult to understand and the plantation of the reporting of the data. In simple terms it’s hard to see the difference between the reports from an AutoCheck and report Carfax. Ultimately, it would be in the experience of the user as to the difference in these two services. The only real differences in the services appear to be the corporations behind them. Think that AutoCheck since it is backed and owned by Experian would have significantly more information. In my experience I’ve not found this to be true. Most of the time I have found Carfax to contain more, relevant, up-to-date information. However the certain his varied case-by-case circumstance. Just by looking at the list of the sources for AutoCheck it appears as though there is one major difference, in my opinion. It appears as though collision shop to report to AutoCheck. In my experience I’ve not seen collision shop reporting to AutoCheck outside of accidents. This means that if there is an accident in the history then I might find the report from a collision facility. Very rarely have I found a collision facility reporting outside of a please reported accident. My personal experience. However you need to review the AutoCheck website to see the nature and extent of their data sources. If you are attempting to purchase the vehicle it might be a good idea to purchase the AutoCheck and Carfax and compare them. Even before you run the Carfax or the AutoCheck on the vehicle you intend to purchase you might want to try running AutoCheck and Carfax and other vehicles in your household, family or friends with their permission. Then you might have the opportunity to see the difference between these 2 reports and determine which one is more useful with regard to wiring a vehicle and attempting to determine the nature and extent of the history of this vehicle.

Remember these are two separate companies and have similar data sources to be careful when using one over the other

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