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Tuesday, February 2, 2021 On 2 December 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) issued two Final Rules in conjunction with its “Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care,” which will markedly change the regulatory fraud and abuse landscape for “value-based” arrangements: (i) The HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) published a Final Rule that introduces new safe harbor protections under the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) for certain coordinated care and risk-sharing value-based arrangements between or among clinicians, providers, suppliers, and...

Credit: R. Press/NIST After weighing this package of marijuana, NIST research chemist Brent Wilson ground up the contents to prepare samples with very precisely measured amounts of THC, CBD and other compounds. Those samples will be sent to labs as part of a study that will help labs improve their measurement accuracy. Labs that are not licensed to handle controlled substances will receive samples of hemp instead of marijuana. Hemp and marijuana both come from the Cannabis plant. But legally, they are very different. If cannabis has less than 0.3% THC – for tetrahydrocannabinol, t...

Longtime Hagyard Equine Medical Institute Veterinarian, Dr. James D. (Jim) Smith, 86, Passes Sponsored by: Dr. James Donovan Smith, longtime Hagyard Equine Medical Institute veterinarian Dr. James Donovan (Jim) Smith, DVM, of Lexington, Ky., husband of Judy Smith passed away on Dec. 28, 2020, surrounded in love by his family. Dr. Smith was born Oct. 10, 1934, in Hutchinson, Kan., to the late Raymond and Anita Smith. Dr. Smith earned his Bachelor and Doctorate degrees in Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University where he was a member of the Gamma Epsilon Chapter of Beta Theta P...

By Yucatan Times on December 22, 2020 Share Mérida, Yucatán, December 21, 2020.- The Clinical Laboratory of the Hospital “Doctor Agustín O’Horán” was awarded for the quality and excellence in its performance in the sections of Clinical Chemistry, Hematology, Parasitology, Bacteriology, Immunology and Uroanalysis, same that also received the distinction “Rey Pakal” for having qualified as one of the best laboratories in the country.  In this regard, the direc...

Judgment whether it's good or bad for the environment or anything like that. what i do know is that with t the -- with the regulatory oversight that we have on both production and with the pipeline, basically there is no essential control of the process. and, for instance, they can blow a huge hole in mcmurray, and with 250 tons of tnt, take out a couple acres of land and nobody says a word. transcanada can blow up a pipeline in the united states and say it was unavoidable, and yet we have a mandatory quality assurance program and they hit the pipe four times. it's like nobody's watching, or i...