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Vicki Que Reports On The Record Medical Fraud Settlement,

in which pharmaceutical maker, Smith Kline Beecham, has agreed to pay the federal government $325 million for allegedly over-billing Medicare and Medicaid for laboratory tests. The out of court settlement results from a government investigation into the health care industry, known as `Operation Labscam.'

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