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Are You Aware of the Latest CMS Enforcement Actions?

CMS has started enforcing the price transparency rule, by taking action against two hospitals.

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This summer, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) fined two hospitals for failing to uphold the price transparency requirements. The hospitals failed to update their websites and/or respond to CMS’ letters about the violations.

Northside Hospital Atlanta was fined $883,180 and Northside Hospital Cherokee was fined $214,320 for the violations.

Pursuant to the price

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What to Know Concerning the Authorized Battle Over Prince’s Property

We always inform our shoppers to verify their family members and pursuits are protected by way of property planning. The six-year authorized battle that came about over Prince’s property clearly demonstrates the significance of property planning.

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The failure to draft an satisfactory property plan will be pricey and emotionally draining for relations.

Prince died with a $156 million property, however no property plan or will to

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Learn how to run to drop extra pounds and the way a lot to run to drop extra pounds?

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Learn how to Run to Lose Weight

If you wish to drop extra pounds simply run extra, easy sufficient proper? Everyone knows that operating is a superb technique to burn extra energy, and because it does not require any train tools or perhaps a health club membership it is the proper resolution to weight reduction. However how a lot do you really want to run to drop extra pounds? That query is essential, and possibly the rationale why most individuals find yourself quitting their operating

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Arkansas interest groups expect lawmakers to address Medicaid, prisons, farming curriculum in regular sessions

With the regular legislative session starting today, Arkansas lobbyists and advocacy groups are expecting lawmakers to address issues that range from Medicaid reimbursement rates to farming lessons in elementary schools.

As hospitals struggle to manage rising costs, adjusting the state’s Medicaid rates is a priority for the Arkansas Hospital Association. Inpatient reimbursement rates haven’t changed since 2007 when they were raised from $675 a day to $850. Outpatient rates have stayed the same since 1992, said Jodiane Tritt, vice president of the association.

“So if you have open-heart surgery and are a Medicaid patient, the hospital is reimbursed $850 a

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Estate Planning Mistakes to Avoid in the New Year

As we come to the end of the year and are looking toward a new year, we recommend that our clients reevaluate their estate plans.

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Estate plans are incredibly important to protect future wishes, assets and families.

Often, we see the same mistakes repeated over and over in estate planning. Some of the most common estate planning mistakes are the following:

  1. Not having an estate plan. The biggest issue we
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Why New York’s neediest families aren’t using free pre-K and 3K

NEW YORK — Six years ago, New York City hosted leaders from a dozen cities across the US to share lessons learned from its free early childhood education program for over 70,000 4-year-olds.

The immensely popular universal prekindergarten program was the brainchild of former Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2014. Three years later, he began expanding it to 3-year-olds. The pioneering education policy remains the single biggest achievement from de Blasio’s two terms in office. It was so successful that it became a national model for other major cities like Seattle and Washington.

And yet, in a wildly expensive city

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What does it mean to be woken? Local NAACP leaders talk about the word’s politicization

What does “woke” mean to you?

From its 1923 origins in the Black community to today’s co-optation for various political agendas, the definition of the word has evolved and come to mean different things to different people.

For Black leaders on the Treasure Coast, it’s still a positive word of empowerment that embodies the NAACP’s mission, which according to its website is to “achieve equity, political rights and social inclusion by advancing policies and practices that expand human and civil rights, eliminate discrimination and accelerate the well-being, education and economic security of Black people and all persons of color.”

“The

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Mahopac undecided on name change but withholds logo from field re-do

MAHOPAC − Anticipating the possibility “Indians” may be dropped as the nickname of the district’s athletic teams, the Mahopac Board of Education Tuesday night agreed that only an “M” will be at the center of an artificial turf field that’s being replaced, instead of the current logo, which is an M, with an arrow and a feather.

But with trustees noting the full logo could be painted later, if desired, the board made it clear no decision has been made on whether Mahopac will comply with a state Education Department directive that schools scrap Native American nicknames and logos.

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