GOP boycotts health care advisory board House and Senate Republican leaders told President Barack Obama Thursday that they will refuse to nominate candidates to serve on an advisory board that is to play a role in holding down Medicare costs under the new health care act. More
US medicine spending shows rare dip Total U.S. spending on prescription medicines declined last year, a first in more than half a century. The dip was 1 percent, to $325.8 billion — a 3.5 percent drop after accounting for population growth and economic expansion, according to the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics. More
Hillary Clinton Gets Another Nudge for 2016 Paging, Hillary Clinton. Emily’s List, the influential abortion-rights group that backs Democratic women, unveiled an initiative Thursday to help put a woman in the White House. The group announced a six-figure digital media campaign and new polling that shows a strong appetite for a female commander-in-chief as part of its “Madame President” campaign. More
Top Online Jobs for Q1 2013: The Freelancer Top 50 Report I was quite excited to see Meghan Casserly’s report this week on the way the freelance revolution is closing the gender gap in jobs and earnings for women. Then I received a message from Freelancer.com with their newest research on the top online jobs for 2013 overall. More
Beaufort Memorial to oppose Novant Healthcare's Bluffton hospital plans Beaufort Memorial Hospital will challenge a plan from competitor Novant Healthcare to open a hospital in Bluffton. 01/2/2025 - 9:00 pm | View Link
Elevance completes IU Health Plans acquisition As the year ended, Indianapolis-based health insurance giant Elevance Health completed its previously announced acquisition of Indiana University Health Plans, the managed care unit of hospital system ... 01/2/2025 - 12:28 pm | View Link
Covered Entities The listed types of policies are not health plans. The HIPAA Administrative Simplification regulations specifically exclude from the definition of a “health plan” any policy, plan, or program to the extent that it provides, or pays for the cost of, excepted benefits, which are listed in section 2791(c)(1) of the Public Health Service Act ... 01/2/2025 - 8:29 pm | View Website
HealthCare.gov Breaks New Record with 16.6 Million Consumers ... The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is committed to a robust Marketplace Open Enrollment process for consumers so they can easily purchase high-quality, affordable health care coverage. CMS reports that a record 16.6 million 1 consumers signed up for plan year 2025 and will receive up to a full year of coverage beginning January ... 01/2/2025 - 2:17 pm | View Website
Health Insurance HHS makes health insurance coverage more affordable, secure, and reliable for Americans through the current law, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP. 01/1/2025 - 12:21 am | View Website
HIPAA for Professionals HIPAA for Professionals. To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the health care system, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Public Law 104-191, included Administrative Simplification provisions that required HHS to adopt national standards for electronic health care transactions and code sets, unique health identifiers, and security. 12/31/2024 - 11:16 pm | View Website
Covered Entities and Business Associates | HHS.gov Company health plans; Government programs that pay for health care, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and the military and veterans health care programs; This includes entities that process nonstandard health information they receive from another entity into a standard (i.e., standard electronic format or data content), or vice versa. 12/31/2024 - 7:27 pm | View Website
Q: Ira, how has Jimmy Butler’s role changed that he doesn’t fit anymore? That’s bad coaching, right? – Elliot.
A: First, an exhale, please. Because what transpired Thursday night, as much as it was cast that way by Jimmy Butler, had nothing to do with role or playing style or anything to do with Erik Spoelstra’s playbook.
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Ethics report details allegations of campaign violations by Cherfilus-McCormick
‘Coolest temperatures of the season’ should hit South Florida this weekend
Perfect restaurant inspections: Which 70 South Florida eateries earned flawless scores in December 2024?
Broward schools watchdog expected to start in early 2025
Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy among golfers in indoor, high-tech league playing in South Florida soon
Buddhist group sues to delay Everglades project, says Army Corps ignores impact on Weston retreat
‘A 28-year-old super hero’: Road ranger killed in New Year’s Day crash on I-95 identified
Randy Perkins, AshBritt disaster relief founder, dies at 60
Meat Market is having fashion-y La Piscine brunch Sundays at Renaissance Boca Raton Hotel
Miss Manners: I treated them to lunch, and they disparaged the restaurant I chose
GAINESVILLE — UF coach Todd Golden still wasn’t sure how good the Gators could be a week prior to Thanksgiving when college basketball operates in the shadows.
But his confidence was growing after their fourth 20-point win in six games, this time a 93-68 thumping of Southern Illinois on Nov. 22.
Few in Gator Nation might have noticed on the eve of Florida football’s upset of Ole Miss in the Swamp, but the pieces were quickly falling into place over at the O’Dome.
Florida head coach Todd Golden, left, signed guard Will Richard as part of the Gators’ first crop of transfers in 2022.
The latest Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress paints an alarming picture of a worsening homelessness crisis in the U. S.
On a single night last January, more than 771,000 people experienced homelessness, the highest number since data collection began. The 18% year-over-year increase reflects the mounting pressures of a housing shortage, inflation and the end of critical pandemic-era safety nets such as eviction moratoriums and expanded tax credits.
Today is Friday, Jan. 3, the third day of 2025. There are 362 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Jan. 3, 1920, Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold the contract of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees, beginning a championship era for the Yankees and decades of heartache for Red Sox fans.