Paying for Black Lung: Renewal Deadline Looms for Overextended Federal Trust Fund
It’s been almost forty years, but many former miners with the disease are still fighting to maintain funding for the benefits that keep them alive.
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It’s been almost forty years, but many former miners with the disease are still fighting to maintain funding for the benefits that keep them alive.
Study Reveals Bias Among Doctors Who Classify X-rays for Coal Miner's Black Lung Claims UIC researchers first to publish data on B-reader financial conflicts of interest Getty Images April 1, 2021 — University of Illinois Chicago researchers are the first to report on the financial conflicts of interest that exist among doctors who review the chest X-rays of coal miners who file workers' compensation claims of totally disabling disease with the U.S. Department of Labor's Federal Black Lung Program. The UIC researchers found that the determinations of these doctors — who are known as B-r...