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Liberal Democrats should vote to scrap plans to abolish the Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA), otherwise the educational and employment opportunities for thousands of young people will be blighted, Unite, the largest union in the country, said yesterday (Monday, 17 January)…
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The Scripps Research Institute and Vanderbilt University have formed a partnership to advance science at the interface of chemistry and medicine, the institutions announced recently…
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International and Australian students will be back on campus at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, this week, with the University making last minute preparations for their return on Thursday, January 20. Photos taken at the St Lucia campus today are here…
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Registration is open for the 2011 AIUM Annual Convention and Preconvention Program, the only medical imaging conference in the United States dedicated to all disciplines of medical ultrasound, to be held April 14-17, 2011, in New York, New York…
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Recently, Nolan & Auerbach, P.A. Partner Joseph E. B. “Jeb” White was a guest lecturer during the opening session of the George Washington University Healthcare Corporate Compliance Program. This one-of-a-kind program provides a comprehensive corporate compliance education for current or aspiring corporate compliance officers. For the eighth time, Mr. White was the lone speaker from [...]
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Last year, Congress amended the federal False Claims Act to close a “finders’ keepers” loophole, which had permitted health care providers to keep Medicare and Medicaid overpayments. Earlier this year, as part of the Health Care Reform Legislation, Congress set a 60-day time limit for providers to return these overpayments. Specifically, Section 6402 of the [...]
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While investigating a doctor who reportedly implanted hundreds of potentially medically unnecessary stents, Senate investigators may have stumbled across a troubling nationwide practice that drains funds from government health care programs and needlessly places patients’ lives at risk. In their released report, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) [...]
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Two St. Louis-based hospital systems have agreed to shell out more than $2.2 million to quiet allegations that they submitted false Medicare claims for routine foot care procedures. Under the terms of the settlement, St. John’s Mercy Health System and St. John’s Health System have agreed to close the foot clinics and to pay the [...]
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The American Medical Student Association applauds the Supreme Court for this week’s unanimous ruling that medical residents should be considered employees when it comes to collecting Social Security taxes. AMSA, along with the Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU Healthcare, filed a friend of the court brief with the Supreme Court back in October…
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Adding to the national debate on the state of dental research in U.S. dental schools, an article released today titled “Total NIH Support to U.S. Dental Schools, 2005-2009″, published in the International and American Associations for Dental Research’s Journal of Dental Research, authors J.A. Lipton and D.F…
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