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SOURCE: www.ag.ny.gov On Veteran’s Day, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced that his office has secured a $9.5 million settlement with SmartBuy, a retailer and financing firm based in North Carolina after the company fraudulently charged thousands of soldiers [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.hhs.gov Investments help ease cost of professional schooling for clinicians, students Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced that $229.4 million was invested in the National Health Service Corps in 2012 to support more doctors and nurses [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.va.gov The Department of Veterans Affairs today announced the implementation of a pilot version of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), a program being promoted nationally by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, aimed at reducing the number of [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.casey.senate.gov U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) today called on the Secretary of the Army to award veterans from earlier eras the Combat Medic Badge that they have earned but have been blocked from receiving. Currently, eligibility only extends to [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.dfs.ny.gov Benjamin M. Lawsky, Superintendent of Financial Services, today announced that Oxford Health has been fined $665,000 for failing to explain coverage to their health plan members. Oxford also failed to tell members how to challenge claims denials. Oxford was [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.ag.ny.gov Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced the guilty plea and sentencing of home health agency owner Christopher Luis, 58, of Manhattan, for failing to pay 109 employees of his company, CLBAZ Connections, LLC, over a six-month period. [...] Read More

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Eric K. Shinseki today announced a joint effort to expand health care delivery to veterans living in rural areas.  The agreement between the two [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.va.gov Two U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs public awareness campaigns designed to help Veterans who seek mental health care assistance have received forty-three industry and association awards for communication and design excellence. “We are pleased that these campaigns have [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.opm.gov OPM (Office of Personnel Management) announced that in 2011, federal employees with disabilities represented 7.41 percent of the overall workforce and 11 percent when the figures include veterans who are 30 percent or more disabled. The report also [...] Read More

The VA has released a report illustrating improvement in gender disparities in 12 out of 14 Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures. These measures are used by 90 percent of America’s health plans to measure performance on important [...] Read More