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Aptus Wealth Planning and Winthrop Partners say the current strain on pocketbooks will continue for the foreseeable future.

Retiring Los Altos Police Chief Andy Galea and his administration are at the center of criticism by members of his department.

Seattle – A resident of Astoria, Oregon was convicted this week in U.S. District Court in Seattle of five federal felonies connected to his scheme to

Richard Marschall was convicted of falsely advertising products as treatments for COVID-19 and other viruses like MRSA.

Seattle – A Redmond, Washington, man who held himself out as a biotech expert was sentenced today in federal court for introducing misbranded drugs into

Our picks for the best new movies and TV shows streaming in March 2022 include Our Flag Means Death, Star Trek: Picard and Phoenix Rising

November 19, 2021 — A federal jury convicted a Seattle doctor yesterday of fraudulently seeking over $3.5 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) COVID-19 relief funds.

The gap in Medicare reimbursements to hospitals compared to surgeons widened substantially in the last decade - even as patient outcomes improved and healthcare resource use decreased, according to a new analysis by Brian Werner, MD, and colleagues of UVA Health, Charlottesville, Va. "The results confirm our hypothesis that hospital charges and payments contribute significantly more to the increasing cost of treating a hip fracture patient than surgeon charges and payments do," the researchers...

Hospital charges increasing more rapidly for hip fracture patients than surgeon reimbursements In recent years, hospital charges and Medicare payments for patients with hip fractures have increased much more rapidly than charges and payments for orthopaedic surgeons, reports a study in the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer. The gap in Medicare reimbursements to hospitals compared to surgeons widened substantially in the last d...

Three local counties boost rating to orange INDIANAPOLIS — A week after seeing COVID-19 ratings worsen to their worst point ever, Indiana showed marked improvement last week, with many counties getting better ratings than the week before. That included northeast Indiana, where Noble, DeKalb and LaGrange counties all improved from red to orange. Steuben County stayed in red, but just barely, as it showed improvement from a week ago, too, just not enough to change colors. Overall, Indiana sa...