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CMS’s Journey To Worth-Primarily based Care

by Oktavina

Most individuals consider CMS (Facilities for Medicare & Medicaid Companies) as an insurance coverage firm that covers particular person providers supplied by physicians, FQHCs, hospitals, and different well being care suppliers. Some folks even consider it as a policy-writing company for Medicare. It’s true that CMS reimburses suppliers for providers to thousands and thousands of particular person beneficiaries. Nonetheless, because the Inexpensive Care Act got here into motion in 2010, CMS has been creating centered fee methods that shift from price for providers to value-based care and a concentrate on inhabitants well being.

At the moment, CMS’s second-highest strategic precedence

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Find out how to Keep a Wholesome Weight Throughout Quarantine

by Oktavina

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With 24 hours and seven days per week all to ourselves – no work, faculty, and extracurricular actions, we’re all vulnerable to unhealthy consuming and being sofa potatoes, which might result in weight achieve.

Some are even calling this, “Quarantine 15,” similar to the generally used expression in the USA, “Freshman 15,” that refers back to the weight gained (normally round 10-15 kilos) throughout a pupil’s first 12 months at school.

Properly, that is okay if all of us have the identical metabolism as 18 12 months olds. Nevertheless, we aren’t. So earlier than we achieve that 15 kilos,

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Scrapped training reform invoice looms massive over trustee elections, Winnipeg candidates say

by Oktavina

The present elections for Manitoba college trustees wouldn’t be occurring if the provincial authorities’s proposed training reform invoice had handed into regulation.

And though the province finally backed down over public outcry to Invoice 64, which might have eradicated all English-language college boards and changed them with a central training authority, folks working in Winnipeg’s largest college district say it continues to have an effect on the Oct . 26 votes.

“I really feel just like the occasions of the previous few years, with the provincial authorities’s stance on public training, have actually galvanized some people to take the private

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Technology companies are proving to be the great equalizer

by Oktavina

[Part 1 of a 12-Part Series]

Healthcare is rife with significant challenges that can in some cases be minimized at the very minimum and in most cases be eliminated by the use of technology. The 12-part series begins by elaborating on macro-level challenges that the healthcare industry is starting to address with technology to stem the bleeding/reverse the onset of more severe complications.

Challenge 1: Supply and demand

Healthcare service delivery provisioning across the globe is starkly marked by the lack of adequate supply of qualified clinicians and specialists. This situation has been significantly exacerbated in the post pandemic new

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House GOP Set for Year of Investigation

by Oktavina

With a razor-thin majority in the House and no majority to speak of in the Senate, Republicans are hoping to punch above their weight in the coming year by focusing relentlessly on investigations they hope will do damage to a Democratic Party that’s riding high after the midterms — and expose international influence-peddling schemes, Big Tech corruption, and Chinese malfeasance in the process.

While it’s unclear whether House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy will have the 218 votes he needs to secure the speaker’s gavel as the House conventions today, he’s confident enough in his prospects that he’s laid out plans

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LAWSUIT AGAINST USC EDUCATION SCHOOL ALLEGES FRAUD IN US NEWS & WORLD REPORT DATA Works Only Under These Conditions

by Oktavina
LOS ANGELES, CA-MAY 17, 2018: Tommy Trojan, officially known as the Trojan Shrine, is a life-size bronze statue of a Trojan warrior located on the USC campus in Los Angeles on May 17, 2018. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)
Former students filed a class action lawsuit alleging USC Rossier School of Education fraudulently advertised and inflated the graduate school’s online education programs. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

The University of Southern California’s education school was sued Tuesday by former students who claim that officials violated state law by falsely advertising the graduate program’s high online degree ranking, which was based in part on fraudulent data submitted to US News & World Report’s college rating list.

The class-action lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges that USC and 2U Inc., a technology company hired by the university to

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‘Constitution’ gets a grilling in thought-provoking Florida Studio Theater play

by Oktavina
Amy Bodnar stars in the Florida Studio Theater production of Heidi Schreck's play “What the Constitution Means to Me.”

Amy Bodnar stars in the Florida Studio Theater production of Heidi Schreck’s play “What the Constitution Means to Me.”

When she was 15 years old, Heidi Schreck banked a lot of scholarship money for her future college education by competitively speaking or debating at American Legion halls about the US Constitution and whatever personal connection she may have to the document.

Her play “What the Constitution Means to Me,” which opened Friday night at Florida Studio Theatre, is a more adult response to the sunny presentations Schreck delivered as a teenager, when she compared the Constitution to a witch’s caldron,

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State candidates debate housing, education and the environment in Summit County leading up to November election

by Oktavina
The Summit County Senior Center is one of three locations in Summit County open on Election Day, Nov. 2, for in-person voting as well as ballot drop off. The first local debate of the election season took place on Wednesday, Oct. 5 at the Summit County Community and Senior Center.
Liz Copan/Summit Daily News archives

The first of this election season’s local debates took place on Wednesday night at the Summit County Community and Senior Center, run by Krystal 93 and moderated by local news director Phil Lindeman.

While local candidates received mere minutes to respond, state representative and senate

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