Connolly Healthcare, the Medicare recovery audit contractor (RAC) for Region C, recently updated its CMS approved audit issues for RAC review. Specifically, Connolly Healthcare recently posted at least 19 new CMS approved audit issues on its website for inpatient hospitals pertaining to DRG valid ...

Arteriovenous malformation is what the letters AVM stands for. An AVM is a tangle of poorly formed and abnormal veins and arteries (blood vessels). An AVM has a higher rate of bleeding than normal blood vessels. A brain AVM is when this occurs in your brain. It is an abnormal connection between vein ...

Arteriovenous malformation is what the letters AVM stands for. An AVM is a tangle of poorly formed and abnormal veins and arteries (blood vessels). An AVM has a higher rate of bleeding than normal blood vessels. A brain AVM is when this occurs in your brain. It is an abnormal connection between vein ...

February 6, 2010 An accident in Newark has left two critically injured after their car rear-ended the vehicle of a drunken man who parked in the middle of the road and went to sleep, reported The Star-Ledger. A drunken Rolondo Ibarrafreire, 29, of Linden, parked his Ford pickup truck in the south ...

February 5, 2010 A man suffered injuries when he exited the train and fell through the gap between the train and the platform onto the track at the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Syosset station on Tuesday, the Syosset Jericho Tribune reported. The accident happened about 1 p.m. as the passenger ex ...

If you invent a new currency, don’t be surprised when the scammers and counterfeiters show up. Especially when your currency is itself a scam. Hackers Steal Millions in Carbon Credits The hackers launched a targeted phishing attack against employees of numerous companies in Europe, New ...

When Obamacare sailed into rough waters near Christmas, most Republicans jumped ship. But two GOP senators, Maine’s Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, clung to the battered vessel right until Ben Nelson cut the rope.   This week, the Maine ladies redeemed themselves with their handling of the Republ ...

In a letter to FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff responding to the recently filed application of Calais LNG, the new Canadian Ambassador to the United States, Gary Doer, reiterated the Canadian federal government's position that it will not permit LNG vessels to transit through Canadian waters in P ...

In advance of scheduled LNG vessel transits from Yemen to the Everett LNG regasification terminal, Revere, Mass., officials are planning additional security measures to protect other tanker traffic. Read more in the Daily Item (Lynn, Mass.).

Financial reform efforts continued on capital hill this week with testimony about the so-called Volker Rule which some call Glass Steagall lite. SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro met with her counter parts at the FSA in London to discuss coordination on topics such as rating agencies and hedge funds. The ...