Keep the overpayment.
Good news for physicians: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services won't be collecting overpayments that resulted from a 2-month delay in the 2003 physician fee schedule. CMS had previously directed carriers to automatically adjust claims submitted between March 1 and June 30. These adjustments were going to be...

Mobile e-commerce? It's on the move. (Marketing News).
Mobile e-commerce--sometimes called m-commerce--is about where regular e-commerce was five years ago. And when it arrives, watch out! That's the view of New York-based Accenture, a management and technology consulting firm. "Never mind that the current technology is slow and difficult to use," says Mark C. Giometti...

Mammogram still the best test.
Byline: TIM CHRISTIE The Register-Guard For years, physicians and cancer organizations have urged women, starting at age 40, to get mammograms every year or two so that cancerous tumors could be caught early and treated. But now this crystal-clear tenet of women's health has suddenly...

Disputing the damage.
Byline: JOE MOSLEY The Register-Guard THEY REFER to themselves these days as the "tree people," their humor a product of shared exasperation. They live in hotels, and out of boxes. Terms from the lexicon of builders and engineers have crept into their everyday...

Risk management. (Protestants Confront Sexual Abuse).
THE LATEST WAVE of sexual abuse scandals crashing upon Catholic parishes and chanceries has apparently missed most Protestant churches. In fact, analysts and insurers give credit to mainline churches for adopting policies and practices in the early 1990s aimed at protecting minors from coercive intimacy in congregational settings. And...

Measure 23 would give universal health care.
Byline: TIM CHRISTIE The Register-Guard When it comes to the state of health care in Oregon, it's hard to find defenders of the status quo. Working people and business owners face health insurance premiums that once again will be heading skyward in 2003. Seniors scramble...

Core values revealed: Workers' Comp claims managers are confident about outsourcing account-level processes. But they are not sold on sending their core processes offshore.
An article in the September edition of Risk & Insurance[R] about the attitudes of leaders in the workers' compensation industry toward outsourcing and offshoring revealed a mix of interest, opportunity, fear and skepticism. A follow-up survey of industry leaders, with more than 375 responses, shows that the marketplace may...

Rebecca L. (Richardson) Perucci, 91.
WEST BROOKFIELD / BROOKFIELD Rebecca L. (Richardson) Perucci, 91, died Wednesday, October 10, 2007 in her daughters residence, 130 New Braintree Rd., West Brookfield. Her husband John Perucci died in 1988. She leaves three daughters, Marilyn M. Bartolo of St. Petersburg, FL, Phyllis J. Tuttle of Fiskdale...

Charles W. "Chuck" Whorton, Jr., 62.
AUBURN Charles W. "Chuck" Whorton, Jr., 62, of Auburn, died Saturday, Nov. 10th in the Jewish Health Care Center after an illness. He leaves his wife of 37 years, Gloria M. (Metrik) Whorton; a son James M. Whorton of Auburn; a brother, Jeffrey J. Whorton and wife...

REGIONAL DIGEST.
COLUMN: REGIONAL DIGEST City man faces marijuana charges WORCESTER - A Fay Street man sought by police for allegedly growing drugs in his apartment, turned himself in at police headquarters late last night and was placed under arrest, officials said. Bobby Tang, 23,...