In a move intended to cut Medicare costs, improve billing accuracy, and prompt hospitals to improve the quality of patient care, payments for "secondary" diagnoses will end in October 2008. The new rule will cover eight hospital-caused conditions.
Perhaps this is long overdue: making the medical industry pay for its own mistakes. Medical error is the #1 cause of preventable deaths in America, as tax payers we should not be asked to foot the bill for their preventable errors.
Crack. Fizz. Gulp. Ahhhhhh. Is there a drinking experience more classically Australian than ripping the ring-pull off a beer? "The visceral pleasure from that first crack of a beer can is identical to popping a champagne cork," says wine and drinks writer Mike Bennie. "There's also huge appeal in the tinnie's nostalgia factor."
The Control of Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Bill (‘Tobacco Bill’), which is open for comment until 9 August 2018, imposes draconian new rules and restrictions on the sale and use of tobacco products, and controversially places electronic delivery systems (e-cigarettes or “vapes”) under harsh regulation.
The Milwaukee Bucks will designate as non-smoking not only the new Fiserv Forum but also the entire 30-acre arena district. This ban includes e-cigarettes.
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