Archives

SOURCE: www.hhs.gov News Release From Department of Health and Human Services . . . The Office of the National Coordinator for health Information Technology (ONC) today issued a final rule to establish a temporary certification program for electronic health record [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.veterans.house.gov Opening Statement of Hon. John J. Hall, Chairman, Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs: Hearings, June 15, 2010 . . . I welcome everyone here for today’s hearing entitled, “The State of the Veterans Benefits Administration.”  This [...] Read More

Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune has been in operation since 1942.  Forty years after its establishment, in 1982, volatile organic compounds, commonly referred to as VOC’s, were discovered in Camp Lejeune’s drinking water.  In fact, the Agency for Toxic Substances [...] Read More

SOURCE: helpsenate.gov Thursday, June 17, 2010 “I want to welcome everyone to today’s hearing.  We’re here today to talk about worker misclassification, an issue of critical importance to millions of working men and women across the country. “We all know [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.va.gov Simpler Forms And New Program Reduce Paperwork And Speed Process Washington, D.C. . . . As part of Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Eric K. Shinseki’s effort to break the back of the backlog, the Department of Veterans Affairs [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.hhs.gov News Release . . . Administration Investments Will Help Train & Develop 16,000 New Providers Washington, D.C. . . . U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced a series of new investments worth [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.ins.state.ny.us Albany, NY . . . Governor David A. Paterson signed into law Governor’s Program Bill No. 278 that reinstates the New York State Insurance Department’s authority to review and approve health insurance premium increases before they take effect. [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.hhs.gov News Release . . . Allowing Americans to Keep Current Plans or Choose a New Plan While Extending Important New Benefits to All Consumers The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury today issued a [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.tricare.mil News Release Falls Church, VA . . . A new feature on TRICARE Online now allows users to save their personal health data such as medication and allergy profiles, demographic information and a personal health summary to a [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.va.gov Washington, D.C. . . . As previously announced on January 7, 2010, the Department of Veterans Affairs froze prescription co-payment increases for six months.  Veterans who generally have higher income and no service-connected disabilities – referred to as [...] Read More