Providence agrees to pay $22 million in medical fraud case

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Providence Health & Services Washington will pay $22.6 million to resolve allegations that its Walla Walla hospital fraudulently billed Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health care programs for medically unnecessary neurosurgery procedures. Vanessa

Officials: Limit consumption of sturgeon from lower Columbia

SEATTLE (AP) — State health officials in Washington and Oregon are recommending the public limit their consumption of sturgeon caught from the lower Columbia River. The Seattle Times reports a health advisory comes from the Washington Department