Debuting on September 28, 2021, the Netflix original drama series Maid has become one of the platform’s most popular new titles. Based on the Stephanie Land memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive, much of the appeal comes from protagonist Alex (Margaret Qualley), a woman who leaves her abusive husband…
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While most providers say they agree with the intent of the price transparency law, smaller hospitals are struggling to gather the data and present them in a useful format. Hospitals were required as of Jan. 1 to post machine-readable files of the rates they negotiate with payers, gross charges and discounted cash prices, which the…
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A quiet but intense lobbying effort is hitting Congress for a one-time spend of billions of dollars on Medicare Physician Fee Schedule clinician pay raises. It would be a short-term fix to what medical groups and some lawmakers say is a flawed system of paying physicians, but if Congress doesn’t act by the end of…
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The ex-president of an Ohio healthcare management company pleaded guilty and was convicted of bank fraud in federal court and has been sentenced to 42 months in prison followed by another three years of supervised release. During his time as president of Blue Ash, Ohio-based Premier Healthcare Management, which owned and operated nine nursing care…
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This article is an on-site version of our #techFT newsletter. Sign up here to get the complete newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday Chinese food delivery group Meituan has to swallow a Rmb3.4bn ($530m) fine after being found guilty of monopolistic practices. The company is the latest casualty of Beijing’s campaign against its tech giants.…
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Sarah had endured five years of torture from severe and untreatable depression. “Each day I forced myself to resist the suicidal impulses that overtook me several times an hour,” the 36-year-old Californian says. Then a surgical team at the University of California, San Francisco, inserted a thin wire deep into her brain — and administered…
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More than 130 countries have signed up to a groundbreaking global deal on corporate tax reform aimed at eliminating tax havens while bringing in $150bn more a year from multinationals. The 136 nations also agreed to a two-year ban on imposing new taxes on tech groups such as Google and Amazon while the Biden administration…
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More Medicare Advantage plans scored high quality ratings for their 2022 plans than the year before, according to data released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Friday. Of the 322 Advantage plans with prescription drug coverage that received a rating, roughly 68% earned four stars or higher on a scale of one…
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If Mark Zuckerberg’s “juvenile jottings” on privacy from 15 years ago still exist, they’re about to be pored over by lawyers. Facebook Inc. was ordered by a court-appointed referee to search for any personal notes by the company founder that haven’t been destroyed and might be relevant to a consumer lawsuit accusing the social networking…
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Heart attack patients rushed to War Memorial Hospital in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan are quickly stabilized and prepared for transfer to a hospital with a heart catheterization lab. The Upper Peninsula hospital, like most in rural Michigan, is not equipped to handle interventional cardiac or neurological care. But right now War Memorial is short-staffed —…
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