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May 31, 2008

Community Events (Warren Times Observer) Christians Anonymous, Warren/Forest area


Community Events (Warren Times Observer)
Christians Anonymous, Warren/Forest area (968-4255), New Life Group for alcohol, drug and nicotine dependency, basement, Hope Vision Ministry, Rt. 6, Clarendon, 7 p.m.

Labour & Employment (Mondaq)
On May 21, 2008, President Bush signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (" GINA " or the " Act "). 1 GINA prohibits employers and group health plans from discriminating on the basis of "genetic information," and strictly limits the collection of such information by employers and group health plans.

Medicare Part D - Solaris to pay $500,000 in settlement (Wise County Messenger) A


Solaris to pay $500,000 in settlement (Wise County Messenger)
A Decatur hospice company has agreed to pay half a million dollars to the government as part of a settlement in a civil case involving possible Medicare fraud.

The bizarre, new world of being a senior citizen (The Darien Times)
I never imagined I would make it to 60. But once I got there and turned around to see where I d been, I was even more shocked. I suddenly realized that somewhere along the way, time had spun out of control. After all, 30 was just a few weeks ago, right?

Elder Law Seminars Hosted By Flushing House (Queens Courier)
Are you a senior citizen stuck on a financial roller coaster due to the Medicare Part D doughnut hole? Did you know the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act makes it more difficult for seniors and the disabled to obtain Medicaid benefits?

City to continue Medicare perk practice for now 06/01/08 (The News-Herald)
LINCOLN PARK City retirees aren't expected to see a cut in their pension checks, but future retirees likely won't receive a financial perk that's now being called into question.

Medicare Health Plans - 2008 Plan Data NEW!


Medicare Health Plans - 2008 Plan Data NEW!

AARP and Borders Enter Into Long-Term Agreement to Offer Unique


AARP and Borders Enter Into Long-Term Agreement to Offer Unique Benefits and Valuable Discounts to AARP Members (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
Entries open for AARP/Borders essay competition, Your Next Chapter

AARP The Magazine's 2008 Road Show Kicks Off June 6th in Charlotte, NC With 3rd Annual 'Faces of 50+ Real People Model ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
-8-City Interactive Tour to Feature Health Screenings, Samples, Savings Coupons, Massages, Games, and More-

AARP Unhappy With Baucus Medicare Plan (CBS News)
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today released the broad outlines of Medicare legislation aimed at preventing scheduled cuts to doctors reimbursement rates, and the nation s largest senior lobby was not pleased. We re gravely disappointed at the outline we saw today that includes very little to protect Medicare beneficiaries, said AARP s chief health lobbyist, Kirsten Sloan. In the past, ...

Medicare Part D - City to continue Medicare perk practice for now 06/01/08 (The


City to continue Medicare perk practice for now 06/01/08 (The News-Herald)
LINCOLN PARK City retirees aren't expected to see a cut in their pension checks, but future retirees likely won't receive a financial perk that's now being called into question.

The bizarre, new world of being a senior citizen (The Darien Times)
I never imagined I would make it to 60. But once I got there and turned around to see where I d been, I was even more shocked. I suddenly realized that somewhere along the way, time had spun out of control. After all, 30 was just a few weeks ago, right?

CQ's Carey discusses Medicare legislation, Medicaid regulations, bipartisan health care summit (News-Medical-Net)
Mary Agnes Carey, associate editor of CQ HealthBeat, discusses Senate Democrats' plans to craft legislation that would stop a scheduled reduction in Medicare physician payments; a provision in a supplemental war spending bill that would block for one year new Medicaid regulations; and a bicameral, bipartisan health policy summit set for June in this week's "Health on the Hill from ...

Margulies & Associates Earns LEED Silver for Blue Cross Blue


Margulies & Associates Earns LEED Silver for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (Contract Magazine)
Boston-based Margulies & Associates has announced that the new South Shore headquarters it designed for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) has been awarded LEED Silver certification, as well as two distinctive awards: the Best Practice Award of Excellence by IFMA Boston and a Sustainable Design Commendation by CoreNet Global.

How the case developed (The Providence Journal)
December: The Providence Journal reveals Sen. John A. Celona s financial ties to Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, which helped finance his public-access cable TV show, and to CVS, which had paid him $1,000 a month as a consultant.

Orthopedic doctors to drop Blue Cross (The Idaho Statesman)
About 16 Treasure Valley orthopedic doctors are adding their voices to a public skirmish with Blue Cross of Idaho over how much money they get paid for treating patients.

Micron drops Blue Cross of Idaho after 22 years (The Idaho Statesman)
Micron drops Blue Cross of Idaho as the administrator of its insurance plan for its 10,000 employees who work in the Treasure Valley.

Medicare Part D - Low-income seniors miss out on vital assistance (El Paso Times)


Low-income seniors miss out on vital assistance (El Paso Times)
The programs designed to provide assistance to low-income Medicare beneficiaries, such as the Medicare Prescription Drug Extra Help Low-Income Subsidy (LIS) and Medicare Savings Programs (MPS), are seriously flawed and must be fixed.

Minnesota, National Long Term Care Advocates: Pending Bush Medicare Cut Hurts State s Rural Seniors (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
New Study: Rural Seniors Medicare-Financed Nursing Home Care Slashed $3.7 Million in Year Ahead; Federal Lawmakers, In Minnesota This Week, Urged to Publicly Oppose Cuts to Seniors Medicare Funding

Medicare Part D - Minnesota, National Long Term Care Advocates: Pending Bush Medicare Cut


Minnesota, National Long Term Care Advocates: Pending Bush Medicare Cut Hurts State s Rural Seniors (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
New Study: Rural Seniors Medicare-Financed Nursing Home Care Slashed $3.7 Million in Year Ahead; Federal Lawmakers, In Minnesota This Week, Urged to Publicly Oppose Cuts to Seniors Medicare Funding

Low-income seniors miss out on vital assistance (El Paso Times)
The programs designed to provide assistance to low-income Medicare beneficiaries, such as the Medicare Prescription Drug Extra Help Low-Income Subsidy (LIS) and Medicare Savings Programs (MPS), are seriously flawed and must be fixed.

Pelosi, Obama, Hillary Clinton edging out Ted Kennedy as favorite bogeyman of conservatives (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
WASHINGTON - Republicans have raised many millions of dollars over the past three decades just invoking the name of Ted Kennedy. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., was their poster child for liberals, the quintessential Washington tax-and-spender, a left-wing caricature to his conservative detractors.

Medicare could fail, Leavitt says (Deseret Morning News)
The federal government is on the verge of breaking one of its oldest promises to its citizens health care for the elderly U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt told a conference of seniors during a Wednesday visit to Salt Lake.

May 30, 2008

NHA conducts bird flu drill (The Peninsula) Doha The


NHA conducts bird flu drill (The Peninsula)
Doha The National Health Authority yesterday organised a drill in the Ras Laffan Industrial City to check the country's preparedness for a possible outbreak of bird flu.

Boy recovers from bird flu: WHO (Gulf Times)
GENEVA: An infant in Bangladesh contracted H5N1 bird flu and survived, in the South Asian country s first human infection with the virus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.

Mathematical model to gauge epidemic potential of bird flu developed (New Kerala)
Washington, May 28 : A pair of Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have developed a new mathematical tool that may help health experts and crisis managers know if 'Bird Flu', or avian influenza H5N1, may spread globally or not.

Medicare Part D - Medicare could fail, Leavitt says (Deseret Morning News) The federal


Medicare could fail, Leavitt says (Deseret Morning News)
The federal government is on the verge of breaking one of its oldest promises to its citizens health care for the elderly U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt told a conference of seniors during a Wednesday visit to Salt Lake.

Ailing Kennedy fading as top target for right wing (Post-Bulletin)
WASHINGTON -- Republicans have raised many millions of dollars over the past three decades just invoking the name of Ted Kennedy. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., was their poster child for liberals, the quintessential Washington tax

Life Insurance Online Network Pleased to See New Measures to


Life Insurance Online Network Pleased to See New Measures to Protect NY Seniors (PRWeb)
PlatinumInsurance.info, an online network that offers information and assistance with buying life insurance, has good news for seniors in the state of New York. (PRWeb May 29, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb975014.htm

Tower forecasts life insurance market to triple (Otago Daily Times)
Tower Australia has forecast the life insurance market to treble by 2017 after it posted a 19% lift in underlying first-half profit on the back of growing retail and group premium revenue.

Medicare Part D - CQ's Carey discusses Medicare legislation, Medicaid regulations, bipartisan health care


CQ's Carey discusses Medicare legislation, Medicaid regulations, bipartisan health care summit (News-Medical-Net)
Mary Agnes Carey, associate editor of CQ HealthBeat, discusses Senate Democrats' plans to craft legislation that would stop a scheduled reduction in Medicare physician payments; a provision in a supplemental war spending bill that would block for one year new Medicaid regulations; and a bicameral, bipartisan health policy summit set for June in this week's "Health on the Hill from ...

Minnesota, National Long Term Care Advocates: Pending Bush Medicare Cut Hurts State s Rural Seniors (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
New Study: Rural Seniors Medicare-Financed Nursing Home Care Slashed $3.7 Million in Year Ahead; Federal Lawmakers, In Minnesota This Week, Urged to Publicly Oppose Cuts to Seniors Medicare Funding

Group seeks to change Medicare reimbursements (The Bismarck Tribune)
Health care providers in North Dakota are working on plans to change Medicare reimbursements to hospitals.

Flushing House To Host Elder Law Seminars (Queens Chronicle)
Dina Wizmur, Ronald Fatoullah and Assembly member Ann Margaret Carrozza. Are you a senior citizen stuck on a financial roller coaster due to the Medicare Part D doughnut hole?

Robert N. Trombly, 76, Medical Mutual executive - Obituary (The


Robert N. Trombly, 76, Medical Mutual executive - Obituary (The Plain Dealer)
Rocky River - Robert N. Trombly, retired chief administrative officer and corporate secretary of Medical Mutual of Ohio, played a key role in reorganizing Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Ohio into Medical Mutual of Ohio in 1997.

Micron drops Blue Cross of Idaho after 22 years (The Idaho Statesman)
Micron drops Blue Cross of Idaho as the administrator of its insurance plan for its 10,000 employees who work in the Treasure Valley.

Medicare Part D - Medicare could fail, Leavitt says (Deseret Morning News) The federal


Medicare could fail, Leavitt says (Deseret Morning News)
The federal government is on the verge of breaking one of its oldest promises to its citizens health care for the elderly U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt told a conference of seniors during a Wednesday visit to Salt Lake.

Medicare needs fixing now, Leavitt tells seniors (Deseret Morning News)
The federal government is on the verge of breaking one of its oldest promises to its citizens health care for the elderly U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt told a conference of seniors during a Wednesday visit to Salt Lake.

Low-income seniors miss out on vital assistance (El Paso Times)
The programs designed to provide assistance to low-income Medicare beneficiaries, such as the Medicare Prescription Drug Extra Help Low-Income Subsidy (LIS) and Medicare Savings Programs (MPS), are seriously flawed and must be fixed.

Flushing House To Host Elder Law Seminars (Queens Chronicle)
Dina Wizmur, Ronald Fatoullah and Assembly member Ann Margaret Carrozza. Are you a senior citizen stuck on a financial roller coaster due to the Medicare Part D doughnut hole?

Medicare Part D - CQ's Carey discusses Medicare legislation, Medicaid regulations, bipartisan health care


CQ's Carey discusses Medicare legislation, Medicaid regulations, bipartisan health care summit (News-Medical-Net)
Mary Agnes Carey, associate editor of CQ HealthBeat, discusses Senate Democrats' plans to craft legislation that would stop a scheduled reduction in Medicare physician payments; a provision in a supplemental war spending bill that would block for one year new Medicaid regulations; and a bicameral, bipartisan health policy summit set for June in this week's "Health on the Hill from ...

CMS Approves Pennsylvania Medicaid Waiver Program To Help Residents With Autism (Medical News Today)
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) on Thursday announced that CMS earlier this month granted approval of a waiver program that allows the state to allocate part of its federal Medicaid funds toward services for adult residents with autism, the AP/Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

May 29, 2008

Labour & Employment (Mondaq) On May 21, 2008, President Bush


Labour & Employment (Mondaq)
On May 21, 2008, President Bush signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (" GINA " or the " Act "). 1 GINA prohibits employers and group health plans from discriminating on the basis of "genetic information," and strictly limits the collection of such information by employers and group health plans.

President Bush Signs Landmark Genetic Nondiscrimination Information Act Into Law (Science Daily)
U.S. President George W. Bush has signed into law the first civil rights legislation of the new millennium, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). GINA is the first and only federal legislation that will provide protections against discrimination based on an individual's genetic information in health insurance coverage and employment settings.

Medicare Part D - Medicare could fail, Leavitt says (Deseret Morning News) The federal


Medicare could fail, Leavitt says (Deseret Morning News)
The federal government is on the verge of breaking one of its oldest promises to its citizens health care for the elderly U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt told a conference of seniors during a Wednesday visit to Salt Lake.

Flushing House To Host Elder Law Seminars (Queens Chronicle)
Dina Wizmur, Ronald Fatoullah and Assembly member Ann Margaret Carrozza. Are you a senior citizen stuck on a financial roller coaster due to the Medicare Part D doughnut hole?

Medicare needs fixing now, Leavitt tells seniors (Deseret Morning News)
The federal government is on the verge of breaking one of its oldest promises to its citizens health care for the elderly U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt told a conference of seniors during a Wednesday visit to Salt Lake.

FDA to Get Access to Medicare Part D Data (WebMD)
The FDA will soon start monitoring massive amounts of Medicare s medical records in an effort to more closely monitor drug safety, federal officials said Thursday.

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FBI Warns of Doctors Bilking Patients (KLAS Las Vegas) The


FBI Warns of Doctors Bilking Patients (KLAS Las Vegas)
The FBI is warning to watch out for doctors who may be ripping off their patients for procedures patients don't need. They say some patients are under-medicated and then over-billed. Reporter Travell Eiland has the story of the growing mistrust of medical professionals.

EFFINGHAM EVENTS (Savannah Morning News)
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AARP unleashes Medicare lobbying push (The Politico)
Congress is working to prevent a 10.6 percent cut in Medicare reimbursements that doctors face this summer.

Medicare Part D - Elder Law Seminars Hosted By Flushing House (Queens Courier) Are


Elder Law Seminars Hosted By Flushing House (Queens Courier)
Are you a senior citizen stuck on a financial roller coaster due to the Medicare Part D doughnut hole? Did you know the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act makes it more difficult for seniors and the disabled to obtain Medicaid benefits?

CQ's Carey Discusses Medicare Legislation, Medicaid Regulations, Bipartisan Health Care Summit (Medical News Today)
Mary Agnes Carey, associate editor of CQ HealthBeat, discusses Senate Democrats' plans to craft legislation that would stop a scheduled reduction in Medicare physician payments; a provision in a supplemental war spending bill that would block for one year new Medicaid regulations; and a bicameral, bipartisan health policy summit set for June in this week's "Health on the Hill from kaisernetwork.

FDA to Get Access to Medicare Part D Data (WebMD)
The FDA will soon start monitoring massive amounts of Medicare s medical records in an effort to more closely monitor drug safety, federal officials said Thursday.

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