Medicare fraud probes rise in Iowa as criminal networks expand
Heat’s Des Moines office probes cases across Iowa with Cedar Rapids involved in prosecutions. Officials say most fraud comes from insiders and hospital billing code changes. Mercy Medical Center Sioux City settled a $400000 claim. Federal recovery neared $4 billion last year with prosecutions rising. Senator Harkin pushes more funding, noting vast scope.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Holt
Burns
Mercy Medical Center
Sioux City
Don White
HHS
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White
GIS grant aids Iowa pioneer cemetery preservation work
Kirkwood Community College receives a 2011 12 Endowed Chair for GIS study by researcher Brown who maps Linn County graves. Grandson Kwaiser Brown assists selecting and photographing sites while concerns grow over deteriorating headstones and lost history.
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Kirkwood Community College
Kirkwood
Brown
Linn County
State Association For the Preservation of
Iowa
Pennsylvania State University
Kwaiser- Brown
Kwaiser-Brown
Knaiser-Brown
Rich Lowe
Keosauqua
Lowe
van Buren County
van Buren
Lee
Des Moines
Net Iowa Gravestone Photo Project Update
The Iowa Gravestone Photo Project and AGenWeb announce ongoing cataloging of historic headstones. Volunteers photograph gravemarkers, transcribe inscriptions, and share the data through iowagravestones.org and iagenweb.org for genealogical research.
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Iowa
Iowagravestones.org
Iagenweb
Oil prices react to Libyan disruption and regional output
Oil fell to 82.26 amid Libyan cutoffs after a rise above 110 as demand from emerging markets supported prices. Analysts weigh long term impacts with Libya’s future government and possible quick restart through outside firms versus prolonged conflict delaying production.
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China
Libya
Libyan
Saudi Arabia
Lipow
Jim Ritterbusch
Ritterbusch
Michael Lynch
Strategic Energy & Economic Research
Rebels claim Seif al Islam captured as Tripoli nears collapse
Rebels announced the arrest of Seif al Islam Gaddafi in Benghazi as NATO and U S officials said Gaddafi was elusive with Tripoli under rebel pressure. The Transitional National Council hailed a victorious push into the capital after Younes death boosted their advance.
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Seif al- Islam
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Luis Moreno Ocampo
International Criminal Court
CNN
NATO
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Mustafa Abdel Jalil
Ibrahim Shebani
Abdel Fattah Younes
Younes
Zawiya
Muammar Gadhafi
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