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 | | PROTECTING FLORIDIANS | TEXT VERSION | EN ESPAÑOL | Attorney General Bondi's Weekly Briefing
With Black Friday approaching, I released my office's 2015 Holiday Shopping Guide this week. The guide provides product safety information and consumer tips to help Floridians enjoy a safer and more satisfying shopping experience. The holiday shopping season is the most wonderful time of the year for retailers and we want to make sure consumers also have a great experience. This guide is a fantastic resource for anyone shopping in person or online. Since the guide is mobile, shoppers can reference it online on their phone or tablets, while out buying presents. Included in the guide are tips about purchasing items online, ways to avoid charity scams and advice on how to stick to a budget. Also included, is a list of items recalled by the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission during the past year. I urge Floridians to review this list for unsafe items that may need to be removed from your homes. If consumers have any questions about product recalls or any other issue discussed in the guide, they should contact my office's fraud hotline at 1-866-9-NO-SCAM, or visit MyFloridaLegal.com. I am also happy to announce that the newly redesigned Florida Attorney General's website is now live. Please visit MyFloridaLegal.com and take a look at the new, more user-friendly layout.
 In closing, as we gather together with our family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving tomorrow, let us be grateful for our many blessings. It is important not to forget the men and women in the Armed Forces who are away from their loved ones over the holiday, serving and protecting our great country. I wish everyone a very happy and safe Thanksgiving. |  | In The News
Bondi releases 2015 Holiday Shopping Guide, WJXT News 4 Jax Pam Bondi releases the 2015 Holiday Shopping Guide, WTSP $256 million urine-testing settlement means $4.7 million for Florida, Palm Beach Post | Protecting Floridians
 Millennium Health Agrees to Pay $256 Million for Unnecessary Drug and Genetic Testing and Illegal Remuneration to Physicians
Attorney General Pam Bondi, 48 other attorneys general and the District of Columbia, announced a settlement, totaling $256 million, with Millennium Health, formerly Millennium Laboratories, to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act. Millennium allegedly billed Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health care programs for medically unnecessary urine drug and genetic testing, and for providing free items to physicians who agreed to refer expensive laboratory testing business to Millennium. Millennium, headquartered in San Diego, is one of the largest urine drug testing laboratories in the United States and conducts business nationwide. As part of the settlements, Millennium agreed to pay $227 million to resolve allegations for billing federal health care programs for excessive and unnecessary urine drug testing from Jan. 1, 2008, through May 20, 2015. The states alleged Millennium caused physicians to order excessive numbers of urine drug tests, in part through the promotion of custom profiles, instead of assessing individual patients' needs. This practice violated federal healthcare program rules limiting payment to services that are reasonable and medically necessary. More. | |  | |
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