by Mary Lee & Anderson Xia | May 16, 2013 | Business & Tech, Science + Technology, Topics
WASHINGTON — Senators and medical professionals agreed Tuesday that the Medicare payment system must reward quality of care, not the number of procedures administered. The Senate Finance Committee examined ways the nation’s guaranteed health care program could...
by Mary Lee & Anderson Xia | May 8, 2013 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Medical practitioners and experts offered ideas to legislators Tuesday on how to alter the Medicare physician payment formula, something that continually plagues the medical community. Operating on a fee-for-service payment model, Medicare doctors...
by Lauren Cook | May 2, 2013 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — As professional hockey enters the post season, USA Hockey unveiled a new program Wednesday to make sure scandals that have affected other sport do not reach the ice rink. “The catalyst for it is absolutely and admittedly a byproduct of the horror of...
by Lauren Cook | Apr 25, 2013 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — The World Health Organization was forced on Thursday, World Malaria Day, to launch an emergency response initiative to Cambodia, where artemisinin-resistant malaria is gaining a significant foothold. Although malaria infections in Southeast Asia...
by Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory | Apr 25, 2013 | National Security, Science + Technology, Topics
WASHINGTON – Despite federal and local efforts to prevent improvised biological, chemical and radiological weapons from being used in the U.S., anyone can get anthrax, plague bacteria and other lethal weapons, several top scientists told a House hearing...
by Mary Lee & Anderson Xia | Apr 23, 2013 | Business & Tech, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – Joe Olivo is a small business owner who finds the new health care law costly and confusing, particularly next year’s employer mandate. Mark Hodesh is a small business owner who finds the law to be a boon to his business. Some business owners like...
