Health care cost plan moves toward prospective payments in Iowa
Iowa officials urge prospective hospital payments for Medicaid and Blue Cross member hospitals. A health data commission would collect price and utilization data from hospitals to identify costly practices and standardize billing by July 1 1984. The Blue Cross board reorganization aimed at shifting control to payers, with other reforms including hospital employment of doctors and potential state HMO options for state workers.
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Doderer
Iowa
Rapp
Health Policy Corporation of Iowa
Health Care Cost Committee
Health Data Commission
State Commissioners of Health, Insurance and Social Services
Health Policy Council
Governor’s Commission On
Robert Ray
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Wholesale prices rise in 1981 with tobacco lead and 1982 outlook
The report shows wholesale prices advancing 7 percent in 1981 after an 11.8 percent gain previously, with tobacco products up 11.8 percent amid tax changes. Food and energy costs edged lower in October while auto dealers faced price hikes for new models, and the overall PPI stood at 284.1 for October.
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Alan Sinai
Data Resources Tnc
Lexington, Mass
Thomas
Crocker National Bank
San Francisco
Varina Man Died of Natural Causes Autopsy Finds
In Po ca hontas Iowa Patrick Ford forty was found in a ditch near a creek Sunday autopsy determined his death from natural causes due to a congenital heart disease and exposure Dr L T Donovan concluded Ford died of natural causes as investigators traced his body to the scene
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Pocahontas, Iowa
Machine falls kill Adel woman at tile plant
Gladys Shelley, 29, was fatally injured when a hydraulic lifting machine at United Brick and Tile Co. fell on her. She was airlifted to Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, where she was pronounced dead. Adel lies about 20 miles west of Des Moines.
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Adel, Iowa
UPI
Adel
United Brick and Tile Co
Gladys Shelley
Shelley
Iowa Methodist Medical Center
Des Moines
Columbia shuttle mission marks first commercial spaceflight
Space agency chief James Abrahamson said a July flight might include Columbia crew Allen and Lenoir if suit fixes hold. Columbia returned to Ellington after landing near Los Angeles and will be piggybacked to Cape Canaveral for a 10 month overhaul before future flights. The mission, launching two communications satellites, earned $18 million and proved shuttle can carry out commercial transport missions.
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Columbia
Space Agency
James Abrahamson
Lenoir
Texas
Bill Jr
Cape Canaveral
Fla
U.S
Abrahamson
Utah
Overmyer
Allen
Brand
Weather Report 2E Forecast for November 17 1982
National temperature extremes list lows and highs with Jackson Wyoming and Miami Florida. Showers observed in Northern California Pacific Northwest with scattered showers in Southern California and the southern Plateau. Stampede Pass Washington adds another inch of snow. Plateau and southern Rockies remain mostly sunny elsewhere.
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California
Pacific Northwest
Plateau
Stampede Pass
Wash
Rockies
C.R
Kansas City
C.R. Airport
St.Paul
Vancouver
Cedar River
Waterloo
Mona Sey Am
LaCrosse
Dam
Guttenberg
LA Dubuque
Mary Clinton
Verwoerd Shot Twice at Johannesburg Speech
South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was shot twice in the face by a white farmer opposing apartheid during a speech at a Johannesburg fair marking the 50th anniversary. Verwoerd recovered from the attack. The Republic of Italy was founded in 1946.
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Henrik Verwoerd
Verwoerd
Johannesburg
Republic of Italy
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