GAO cites Medicaid school funding siphoned off through improper billing
GAO auditors told a Senate hearing that Medicaid payments for school based health services were inflated by private consultants and states, with 9 to 12 percent of claimed amounts improperly billed. The report notes 13 million school age children eligible, about $2.3 billion spent in 1993 to 1999, and lists states reporting questionable practices including New Jersey, Iowa, Delaware, Vermont, Alaska, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, Connecticut, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Massachusetts and Minnesota.
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Postal Service Postpones Christmas Stamps and Thanksgiving
The Postal Service will defer new Christmas stamps and a Thanksgiving stamp due to stock of over 100 million 20-stamp booklets and a potential 1-cent rate rise next year. The Christmas designs include Jan Gossaert's Madonna and Child and a four-image Santa issue, part of a broader holiday series with Kwanzaa and Hanukkah stamps.
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Clinton attends back-to-back DNC fundraisers and birthday event
Former President Bill Clinton travels between a Leahy birthday fundraiser and a Women’s Leadership Forum dinner organized by the Democratic National Committee. Leahy, elected to a fifth term in 1998, marked his 60th birthday, while attendees paid $20,000 each to dine with Clinton.
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Judge upholds prayer rights inside the Capitol
U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman ruled Capitol Police cannot stop peaceful prayer or nondisruptive speech inside the Capitol. Rev Pierre Bynum of Waldorf Md sued after a November 1996 incident during a self guided tour when his group prayed briefly, facing possible arrest for the act.
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