Medicare on trial reshuffles pay for doctors nationwide
The new year introduces a nationwide Medicare fee schedule that boosts payments for family physicians while cutting fees for surgeons and specialists, replacing the varied local usual and customary fee system. Critics say the plan may push doctors to drop Medicare patients, affecting access for seniors. officials insist it corrects disparities and will be monitored through 1996. The change also tightens balance-billing limits for nonparticipating doctors and adjusts for geography and inflation, affecting about 500,000 physicians.
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Deborah Mesce
Associated Press
Washington
Jack Guildroy
Physician Payment Review Commission
Congress
Guildroy
American Association of Retired Persons
American Medical Association
James Todd
AMA
Todd
Year of the Band Aids and Health Care Politics
The 1992 campaign intensifies around health care policy as President Bush plans a comprehensive program. With 31 proposals in Congress and rising costs, the issue dominates voter concerns, while 40 million Americans were uninsured in 1991.
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White House
Congress
State House
Bush
Kiwanis
Rotary
Ontario
Calif
Commerce Department
U.S
National Health Insurance
Times Mirror Center
Tomorrow's Forecast Turning Sunny and Mild
Tomorrow's forecast calls for a sunny day with mild temperatures around 50 degrees. Light north northwest winds accompany the pleasant conditions.
Budget crunch looms this Kansas budget outlook
1992 Kansas Legislature faces austere finances and likely no tax increase. Rep. Joan Wagnon says taxes won’t pass this year amid election fears as all 40 Senate and 125 House seats head to November contests. Gov Finney hints at targeted cuts plus possible agency reinvestment. Continued on page 2.
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Kansas
Joan Finney
Senate
House
Soviet says POWs kept in Vietnam after war years later
Soviet counterintelligence veteran Maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin told AP that Soviet agents questioned three American prisoners of war in Vietnam in 1978, long after the war ended, with one naval officer one CIA operative and one Air Force pilot among the trio. He said several Americans remained in Vietnam beyond 1973 and could not explain why.
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Moscow
Vietnam
KGB
Oleg Kalu
Gin
Kalugin
Associated Press
CIA
Army
Bui Tin
U.S. Congress
Fashion Inc. Ribbon Cut Marks Ottawa Move
State Rep Walker Hendrix and city dignitaries congratulated Fashion Inc president Lonnie King after a ribbon cutting dedicating the Lenexa firm's move to Ottawa Industrial Park. The canopy and facade maker plans to finish renovating the Beacon building and operate by mid May.
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Walker Hendrix
Ottawa
Fashion Inc
Lonnie King
Center
Lenexa
Fashion
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Hile
Ralph Young
Dale Whiteford
Logan
Main Street
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Topeka
Joan Wagnon
House Taxation Committee
Bob Miller
Wellington
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