Many healthcare providers feel that UPIC audits often fall short, with flawed sampling and extrapolation techniques that dramatically exaggerate overpayment findings, exposing providers to undue ...

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The U.K.’s statistics agency said it has identified an error affecting calculations of consumer-price inflation, raising new questions about the reliability of its ...

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