Feds Hospitals Clash Over Medicare Rates
Hospitals and administrators challenge CMS changes to Medicare payments. The dispute centers on a behavioral offset tied to new DRG rules expanding to 745 categories to better reflect patient severity. CMS says payments rise overall but advocates warn of cuts and shifting patients to higher reimbursement DRGs.
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Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Herb Kuhn
Maryland
Kuhn
American Hospital Association
Don May
Jon Ron Czajkowski
Robert Greenwood
Hospital and Health System Association of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
States clash over sex education approaches nationwide
Amid a 2,000 student study showing abstinence only classes fail to delay premarital sex, states like Colorado Iowa and Washington push for comprehensive sex education with medically accurate or science based content. Governors shift with new Democrat leadership shaping policy.
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Ore
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Kansas
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Calirnia
Maine
Bill Smith
California
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Montana
New Jersey
Ohio
Rhode Island
Wisconsin
Congressional Democratic
Peter Sprigg
The
Family Research Council
Valerie Huber
National
Planned Parenthood
Nancy Todd
Bill Owens
Bill Ritter
Ward restores Broadmoor amid Katrina ruins in New Orleans
In Broadmoor, New Orleans, residents led by Jocelyn Lagerman and LaToya Cantrell rebuild after Katrina. The effort blends black and white leadership, grass roots organizing, and university support to drive return, renovation, and community revival across 151 blocks. About half have returned, with 20 percent rebuilding.
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Jocelyn Lagerman
Lagerman
Broadmoor
Marilyn Doucette
Ninth Ward
Lance Hill
Southern Institute For Education and Research
Tulane University
O’steen
Napoleon Avenue
Cantrell
Louisiana
South
Oliver Thomas
Pile Jack Swerdhoff
Miami Dade Florida Task Force 1
Samson Thomas
Wayne Williams
Oleander Street
Diplomatic corps overstretched says diplomat group
A coalition of 11 nonprofit groups says the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have strained the U S Foreign Service. The Foreign Affairs Council calls for hiring 1 100 officers to restore 2005 staffing levels and cites morale declines, long tours, and unfilled posts abroad.
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Foreign Service
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Baghdad
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Guage
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