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Mar 2, 2021 LANSING (AP) — Former Michigan Department of Public Health and Human Services director Robert Gordon will receive more than $155,000 as part of a separation agreement, published reports revealed Monday. The agreement calls for Gordon to drop all claims against the state, though it was not immediately clear what claims may have been included. It also promises legal assistance in matters relating to actions he took while director. Gordon resigned in January after signing a new empl...

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said terms of the separation agreement prevent her from speaking about the resignation of former MDHHS Director Robert Gordon and about the payment of more than $155,000.

Ex-Michigan health director gets $155K in separation agreement Associated Press Updated:  Tags:  FILE- In a Dec. 18, 2020 file photo provided by the Michigan Office of the Governor, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Robert Gordon addresses the state in Lansing, Mich. On Friday, Jan. 22, 2021 Gordon resigned his position. He made the announcement without explanation Friday, just hours after signing a revised order to allow restaurants to resume indoor dining on Feb. 1. (Mich...

 E-Mail Spending on low-value health care among fee-for-service Medicare recipients dropped only marginally from 2014 to 2018, despite both a national campaign to better educate clinicians and increasing use of payment revisions that discourage wasteful care, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Three items accounted for two-thirds of the low-value care. Among these, prescribing opioids for acute back pain increased despite a growing national awareness of the harms caused by the drugs an...

A law firm representing former Gov. Rick Snyder says new state rules restricting how much they can be paid to defend him against misdemeanor criminal charges related to the Flint water crisis are unfair and “entirely unrealistic for anything other than routine white-collar criminal matters or investigations.”

Michigan Senate calls for compromise, blocks more Whitmer appointees Lansing — Michigan Senate Republicans demanded Wednesday that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer work more closely with lawmakers on responding to COVID-19 before blocking a second slate of her appointees. The GOP-controlled Senate voted along party lines, 20-14, to reject five of the Democratic governors appointees, another sign of the deteriorating relationship between the legislative and executive branches during the pandemic. A week...

MLive reported that Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, D-Flint, said: “This is rank politics...We’re in divided government. Maybe you haven’t gotten the memo, but I’m going to let you know. It takes compromise, it takes a two-way street, not just getting up here whining” Good to know that at least once in a blue moon the Republicans in Michigan will use their power even if it appears to be “rank politics”. Whitmer has been doing so for 10 months and her democratic colleagues in t...