Medicare overpays for air oxygen generators report
A Washington hearing reveals Medicare pays about 750 million yearly to lease oxygen concentrators priced around 1200 dollars each leading to roughly 17941 dollars profit per seven year unit and spending over 300 million more annually than necessary. Critics cite excessive reimbursement and potential overprescribing as drivers of the waste.
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Harkin
David Lynch Gazette
Washington Reporter
Washington
Medicare
Tom Harkin
Health Care Financing Administration
HCFA
Emergency Care Research Institute
Jonathan Gaev
Solon 13-year-old faces going armed with intent charge
Solon rural subdivision incident began on a school bus after an altercation. Ryan Van Houweling, 13, was detained Wednesday morning and charged with going armed with intent. Investigators differ on the weapon type as pellets were recovered and no shell casings found. Several students were present when shots were fired toward two other youths.
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Solon
Ryan van Houweling
Johnson County Sheriff's Department
Johnson County
Deborah Minot
van Houweling
Linn-Mar outlasts C.R. Washington
Linn-Mar outlasts C.R. Washington as Quaker Oats Co announces Wednesday its deal to buy Snapple Beverage Corp for 1.7 billion dollars. Details on page 4B. Linn-Mar outlasts C.R. Washington.
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MorAmerica Financial Corp
Morris Plan Co
Quaker Oats Co
Snapple Beverage Corp
Linn-Mar
C.R. Washington
Cedar Rapids
Washington
Terry Branstad
Bonnie Campbell
Iowa City
Semi driver to face charges in fatal Cedar County crash
Harold Bascom 60, a Cedar Rapids trucker for WIX Trucking Co., is expected to be charged after a Tuesday crash in a Highway 30 construction zone near Mount Vernon that killed Christopher D. Smith 42 of Davenport and caused a five-vehicle pileup. The driver said he may have fallen asleep. authorities described a long history of accidents and violations but noted Bascom escaped serious injury.
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Rick Smith
WIX Trucking Co
John Hoth
Harold Bascom
Bascom
Mount Vernon
Hoth
Cedar Rapids
Harold
South Ave
Cedar County
Keith Whitlatch
Highway 30
Whitlatch
State Patrol
Davenport
Christopher D. Smith
Smith
Anti-abortion activist convicted of murder
Paul Hill, a former minister acting pro se, is found guilty by a Florida jury for the shotgun slayings of abortion clinic doctor John Britton and bodyguard James Barrett and for wounding Barrett’s wife. Sentencing set for December 9 with possible life or death penalty.
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Pensacola
Fla
Paul Hill
Hill
Frank Bell
John Britton
James Barrett
Barrett
June
Ladies Center
June Barrett
Louisville
Vincent Heuser Jr
Christian Coalition Plans 33 Million Election Guides
The Christian Coalition will distribute 33 million election guides this weekend amid Democratic criticism that the materials distort views to aid Republicans. The final installment of a 5 million dollar effort includes 10 million primary guides and 17 million congressional scorecards, shipped to state chapters but held from churches and bookstores until the Sunday before Election Day.
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Washington
Christian Coalition
Pat Robertson
Chuck Cunningham
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Stanwood
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