Oct. 24– AARP New Mexico will conduct two informational sessions on the basics of Social Security and Medicare at the group's office in Santa Fe. The first session, scheduled for 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, will focus on Social Security. The second session, at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, will focus on Medicare.
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Susana Martinez's administration to withhold Medicaid funds from a behavioral health care agency “arbitrary, capricious or otherwise not in accordance with the law.” The decision by state First District Judge Francis Mathew marks a victory for Alamogordo-based The Counseling Center, which was forced to shut down after the Medicaid payments were frozen due…
Oct. 24– Hazleton City Authority will pay $50,000 more per year for medical benefits for its workforce, with the increase bringing total costs to about $1.1 million annually, its business manager reported Thursday. Business Manager Larry Patton reported that costs have increased by about 5 percent– or by about $50,000 per year for the Blue Cross medical…
Oct. 24– A Roseville podiatrist accused of carrying out a $1 million healthcare fraud scheme pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Sacramento. Between 2009 and 2014, he submitted more than $2.8 million in fraudulent claims for reimbursement to Medicare, Medi-Cal, Tricare and private insurers. Authorities said Medicare, Medi-Cal, Tricare and private…
With a large student loan debt looming over them, Rosie and Nick Thelen of Forest Lake spent months wondering if they should buy a house. This was the sixth year that the Minnesota chapter of the Financial Planning Association has held the free event. “People who are anxious about money are closed off to options,” said Ross Levin, a keynote speaker at the event and…
Oct. 24– KINGSTON– North Kitsap Fire and Rescue recently settled a 2010 harassment and gender discrimination lawsuit for $675,000. Tamara Dotson, a former firefighter and paramedic with North Kitsap Fire and Rescue, filed a complaint in Kitsap County Superior Court that said supervisors harassed and discriminated against her as a woman.
Oct. 23– It would break Marni Stahlman if she were to think of the patients who don't get health care at her free clinics. Her clinics operating in Central Florida haven't seen their patient load abate, even after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Florida led the nation last year in the number of people who gained coverage through the health insurance…
Land of Lincoln was set up by the federal government to provide an alternative for individuals and small businesses in Illinois, one of the least competitive health insurance markets in the country, according to the American Medical Association. A hobbled Land of Lincoln will create more disruption in the Illinois marketplace. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of…
Oct. 23– When CIA contractor Glen Doherty was killed in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012, he had the required insurance policy that would pay death benefits if he died in the line of duty. Now the CIA and Congress are close to changing that. The Senate Intelligence Committee is poised to endorse a CIA plan that would provide an up to $400,000 lump-sum payout to families of…
Oct. 24– A New Jersey Superior court judge ordered suspended lawyer Michael Kwasnik and two others to pay $14 million in restitution for running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded scores of elderly investors in New Jersey and Pennsylvania between 2008 and 2010.. Authorities said that Kwasnik ran the scheme through an investment company named Liberty State…
Pretty much everything else– from their stove to Fred Liner's mother's furniture in their bedroom to the furniture Sylvia Liner had owned since the eighth grade– is gone, lost to a flood of water that seeped into their Sunfield Drive home. Sylvia Liner needs somewhere flat to work on starting over, though, so for now it stays. Brunswick County has tallied $105,000 in…
Oct. 23– Ten years ago on Oct. 24, Hurricane Wilma slammed into Southwest Florida with 125 mph winds. Longtime residents of Chokoloskee, near where the hurricane made landfall, they were in their RV behind a Dollar Discount store they owned in Naples when the storm hit around 6:30 a.m.. In this file photo, Gene Wilber of Naples checks out the bottom of a banyan tree…
Oct. 23– CUMBERLAND– The cause of a recent fire that destroyed a residence at 1045 Bishop Walsh Road has been ruled as undetermined, according to the Cumberland Fire Department. W. Shannon Adams, the city fire marshal, said the amount of damage and the structural instability of the burned-out residence prevented further investigation into the cause and origin of…
Oct. 24– Rhode Island's largest group of primary care doctors has enjoyed so much success embracing a new model of care– one that is being touted by experts as a way to help cure the ills of America's health system– that it's now ranked among the best in the nation. Noteworthy among them was Donald Berwick, former head of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…
A.M. Best has affirmed the financial strength rating of A, the issuer credit rating of“ a” and the Mexico National Scale Rating of“ aaa.MX” of Atradius, Seguros de Crédito, S.A.. The ratings reflect Atradius’ strategic importance to the overall Atradius group, given its leading position within the credit insurance segment in Mexico, its importance as a gateway to the…
Blumenfeld is one of 33,160 in California who have chronic hepatitis C infection, a liver disease caused by a virus most commonly spread through an exchange of blood. But many Californians such as Blumenfeld who have private insurance or who are covered through Medi-Cal are being told they aren't sick enough to obtain coverage for the medications.
Oct. 23– Shelli Farley, wife of deceased Claremore Fire Department Captain Jason Farley and the personal representative of his estate, has filed a $2 million tort claim against the City of Claremore for the drowning death of her husband. “We have received the claim and have turned it over to the insurance company for processing,” said Claremore City Attorney Bryan…
Oct. 21– The Kentucky State Health Insurance Assistance Program provides information, counseling, and assistance to seniors and disabled individuals, as well as their family members and caregivers. The program seeks to educate the general public and Medicare beneficiaries, so they are better able to make informed decisions about their health care.
Oct. 23– The woman struck and killed by a motorcycle on Lake Shore Drive has been identified as a 25- year-old from Germany, according to authorities. She and a 40- year-old man were among a group of pedestrians who were crossing Lake Shore Drive around 10:45 p.m. Monday when a motorcyclist driving between cars ran a red light and struck them in a crosswalk near…
