United Memorial Medical Center LLC has agreed to pay $2 million, to settle alleged they made excessive claims for cost-outlier payments from government health care programs and double-billed the government for COVID-19 tests.
The state agency that distributes unemployment benefits paid out more than $5 billion in fraudulent or excessive claims over two years when the COVID-19 pandemic forced businesses to cut back their operations or shut down, leaving many Illinoisans out of work, according to a report from the Illinois auditor general. Among the missteps by the Illinois Department of Employment Security were .