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LATEST ACTION: January 22, 2021- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 01/22/2021– Senate– Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 01/22/2021– Senate– Introduced in Senate.

Delinquent taxes on the former Red Carpet Inn& Suites, located at 914 S.E. Rhiannon Friedman, president of Downtown Topeka Inc., sees those occurrences as potentially allowing for future development at that site. But Topeka planning director Bill Fiander suggested Wednesday that the property’ s close proximity to the Shawnee County Jail, 501 S.E. 8th, hurts its…

2021 JAN 22– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily– Data detailed on health services research have been presented. According to news reporting out of Pennsylvania State University by NewsRx editors, research stated,“ The phenomenon of excess charge, where a healthcare service provider bills Medicare beyond the limit allowed for a…

2021 JAN 22– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily– A new study on Legal Issues- Law Reviews is now available. Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Chicago,“ Crucially, however, the Supreme Court declined to give any further guidance as to what rules the Medicare Act’ s notice-and-comment…

2021 JAN 22– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Investigators publish new report on climate change. Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from University of Hamburg:“ The country has very limited agricultural land and cotton competes with other crops for this scarce land resource. On top of that, Bangladesh is…

2021 JAN 22– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Fresh data on insurance are presented in a new report. Our news reporters obtained a quote from the research from University of Rome Tor Vergata:“ In this paper, we provide a closed form for the optimal investment under a full set of insurance liability scenarios when we consider a…

2021 JAN 22– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– A patent by the inventors Flowers, Elizabeth; Dua, Puneit; Zwilling, Alan; Mattingly, Adam; Attig, Melissa; Batra, Reena, filed on April 27, 2017, was published online on January 25, 2021, according to news reporting originating from Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx correspondents.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the University of Rochester,“ The aim of these National Quality Forum guidelines is to provide measure developers and other stakeholders with guidance on the standards used by the NQF to evaluate the scientific acceptability of performance measures. For more information on this research see: National…

Jan. 21— “When a new president comes in, there's always going to be some uncertainty among people who did not vote for that President,” Oklahoma Democratic Party 3rd Congressional District Chairwoman Amber Jensen said in an online press conference after the inauguration Wednesday. Though I support our new president, I call for unity after accountability, “…

Peter Gaynor was officially confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be the Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator on January 14, 2020. Prior to coming to FEMA he was an emergency manager at the local and state levels in the State of Rhode Island. Pete agreed to answer questions I posed to him about emergency management in general, FEMA and what he learned…

Green's statement follows a memo issued by Budget Director Paul Payne calling the proposal at the Board of Aldermen “a significant step back” from efforts to put lucrative firefighter retirement benefits under city control. Payne had been prepared to speak on the bill at the aldermanic Public Safety Committee hearing last week, but chairman Joe Vaccaro,…

Though Albert Lea Community Education has offered classes for Albert Lea's senior citizens in the past through its general enrichment catalog, it has expanded those offerings in its recent books. Kim Ehrich, Community Education enrichment marketing specialist, said there are financial classes covering topics such as retirement planning, estate planning,…

The Waterloo Morada Fire District has a new chief, Eric Walder, who has spent the last 30 years at the South Placer Fire Protection District, where he was fire chief the past five years. He also represents OES on the Firefighting Resources of California Organized for Potential Emergencies Operations Team and is the second vice president of the Fire Districts…

Lawyers for Texas and abortion providers appeared before a federal appeals court Thursday to argue the fate of a 2017 state law— struck down by a U.S. judge in Austin— that bans the most common type of second-trimester abortion unless doctors first use an extra procedure to ensure fetal demise. Related: Texas abortion opponents vow a major push in 2021.

—The Biden administration announced Thursday a 60- day suspension of new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits for U.S. lands and waters as officials moved quickly to reverse Trump administration policies on energy and the environment. The suspension, part of a broad review of programs at the Department of Interior, went into effect immediately under an…

The family-owned Oakland Park restaurant shut down Oct. 25 after tropical-storm flooding and a busted sprinkler pipe in the kitchen ripped a pickup truck-size hole in the roof and stuck the family with costly bills. “Everything is on the table,” says Andy Cagnetta, CEO of Transworld Business Advisors, a Plantation-based brokerage.“ Right now there’ s extensive…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' has issued a proposed rule, published in the Federal Register, entitled: “Proposed Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule To Support, and Remove Barriers to, Coordinated Care and Individual Engagement”. *Regular, Express, or Overnight Mail: You may mail comments to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office…