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The article offers news briefs in the U.S. healthcare industry as of September 2021. Sutter Health will play 90 million dollars to settle allegations of Medicare fraud. Also cited are the move by the Public Health and Health Planning Council to no longer allow religious exemptions on New York's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, and the partnership between Mayo Clinic and Verily to develop clinical decision-support software tools.