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WASHINGTON, April 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --The CtW Investment Group urges Community Health Systems (NYSE:CYH) shareholders to Vote "Against" the Re-election of James Ely III, John A. Fry, and W. Larry Cash given their seeming failure to timely and decisively respond to the expanding scandal concerning investigations into CHS' Medicare billing practices, which has precipitated a 25% decline in Community's market value. Community filed with the SEC this morning a 109 page presentation in which...
OMAHA, Neb., April 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Senior Market Sales, Inc. today announced the launch of its new patent-pending Social Security Timing(TM) software, which helps married retirees uncover tens of thousands in additional Social Security benefits they may have otherwise left on the table. "Whether to elect Social Security early or late is a decision virtually every retiree is faced with," said Joe Elsasser CFP, Director of Advisory Services for Senior Market Sales and the software's...
Hospitals and physician practices that form care-coordinating networks called "Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)," under provisions of the new health-care law could reap cost-savings and other benefits. However, experts at Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania warn that such networks could potentially be designed to exclude minorities and widen disparities in health care.In a commentary appearing in the April 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical...
LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Almost Family, Inc. (Nasdaq: AFAM), a leading regional provider of home health nursing services, announced today that it will report financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2011 on Thursday, April 28, 2011, before the market opens. A conference call to review the results will begin at 11:00 a.m. ET on April 28, 2011, and will be hosted by William Yarmuth, Chief Executive Officer, and Steve Guenthner, Chief Financial Officer. To...
TurningPoint Global Solutions, a software engineering and Information Technology (IT) professional services firm, today announced that it has been selected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide data cleansing and enhancement services to better enable CMS to meet their mission of ensuring effective, up-to-date health care coverage and promoting quality care for beneficiaries. Rockville, MD (PRWEB) April 20, 2011 CMS contracted with TurningPoint to enhance...
ARLINGTON, Va., April 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BNA Books, a division of specialized news and information publisher BNA, announced today the publication of the 2011 Edition of the Social Security and Medicare Fact Sheet,, a tool that helps employers, human resource professionals, and benefits specialists in answering employees' and retirees' questions about Social Security and Medicare benefits in a cost-effective and convenient way.(Logo:...
BALA CYNWYD, Pa., April 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLC (SGE) today announced that it has acquired MediMedia Information Technologies, LLC (MMIT), a provider of managed care information for the healthcare industry. MMIT engages in the collection, consolidation, and interpretation of pharmaceutical and healthcare information from health plans to meet the needs of healthcare decision makers in managed markets. In addition, it offers data collection, analysis, and...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A working draft of a speech, heavily revised by Reagan in his own hand, on the JFK and RFK assassinations - both the result, Reagan said, of un-American influences. JFK's murder by Oswald, who renounced his American citizenship to embrace Soviet communism, brought "communist violence... to our land," and RFK's assassination, by a Palestinian, was due, he noted presciently, to "the violence of war in the Middle East imported by an alien."...
The Kentuckiana Regional Planning and Development Agency (KIPDA), through its Social Services Division, announces the open enrollment period for a community outreach program covering qualified Medicare beneficiaries under the "Extra Help with Prescription Drug Costs." The program, covering subsidies for Medicare Part D, is administered by the Social Security Administration using new 2011 Federal higher income levels. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Social...
- Senators Kerry/Snowe and Representatives Courtney/Latham introduce legislation on observation stays - WASHINGTON, April 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A multi-faceted coalition consisting of consumer groups, long term care providers, health care professionals, and others today praised U.S. Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) along with U.S. Representatives Joe Courtney (D-CT) and Tom Latham (R-IA) for introducing legislation that would allow access to crucial skilled...
