Still Paying Taxes? You're One of the Few, Says GAO StudyRE: Still Paying Taxes? You're One of the Few, Says GAO StudyCorporations don't pay taxes, people do! What is not paid directly is paid indirectly in the prices that are paid for goods and services.So, what might save us...
Congressional investigators are looking at the government's quick -- and legal -- approvals for oil and gas drilling in an investigation called long overdue by environmental groups. Industry executives condemn it as political. Two Government Accountability Office investigators are in Utah as part of a probe into...
Two major studies project lower rates of increase in health plan costs Are health care cost projections finally leveling off for 2009? If you believe the most recent employee benefit consultant surveys, they are - and this time the stabilizing trends may have some staying power. ...
The Government Accountability Office is urging Congress to require Medicare to adopt prior authorization procedures for outpatient imaging services, saying that the federal health program's current approach has allowed costs to balloon. According to the GAO, from 2000 to 2006, Medicare Part B spending on imaging services more...
WASHINGTON -- The government is putting millions of Medicare dollars at risk by authorizing fictitious sellers of wheelchairs, prosthetics and other medical supplies to submit reimbursement claims with only limited review, congressional investigators say. The study by the Government Accountability Office obtained by The Associated Press sought...
WASHINGTON -- Tractor-trailer and bus drivers who tested positive for illegal drugs have flouted federal regulations by returning to work without the required treatment, in some cases transporting hazardous materials for many months, congressional investigators say. The study by the Government Accountability Office, obtained Tuesday by The...
WASHINGTON -- One in 10 soldiers sent to Iraq and Afghanistan from three Army bases have medical problems severe enough to significantly limit their ability to fight, according to a Government Accountability Office study released Tuesday. Pressure to rush soldiers into war zones caused leaders at Forts Stewart...
The Government Accountability Office GAO has been asked to "thoroughly" review delays by FDA in disciplining researchers who break rules in clinical trials, Bloomberg News reported. In a March 11 request to GAO, Reps Joe Barton RTX and John Shimkus (R-IL) cited a Feb. 29 Bloomberg News report...
A Government Accountability Office study finds that even as more law enforcement agencies gain access to information on Currency Transaction Reports, the reports are being used less frequently now than a few years ago. The GAO says that no one looked at 90 percent of the 15 million CTRs filed...
WASHINGTON -- The White House pressured the Environmental Protection Agency to weaken requirements that companies annually disclose releases of toxic chemicals, congressional auditors say. In a report, the Government Accountability Office says the changes mean that industry will have to file 22,000 fewer reports each year, reducing...
NCUA has sent a comment letter to the Treasury Department that, not too surprisingly, stresses there are numerous reasons to keep it around as an agency. Similarly, NASCUS and CUNA also objected to any proposal to consolidate regulators, with CUNA saying such a move would have "dire consequences." ...
A recently released federal report says Federal Communications Commission FCC staffers have made it a practice of leaking nonpublic information to a few lobbyists regarding important telecom rulings prior to the actual public votes taken at open commission meetings, giving them the heads-up on when to start...
Tia Gao's company is just 10 months old, but the president of Aid Networks is hoping to get the firm's medical sensor technology into clinical trials very soon. An investment from the Maryland Technology Transfer Fund, a state- funded program intended to transfer to companies technology developed...
WASHINGTON -- The first federal inquiry into boot camps and wilderness programs for troubled teens cataloged 1,619 incidents of abuse in 33 states in 2005, a congressional investigation out today reveals. The study, by the Government Accountability Office, also looked at a sample of 10 deaths since 1990...
Railroads are charging shippers excessive rates in some pockets of the country, such as New Mexico, West Virginia, North Dakota and Montana, where they have little or no competition, a Government Accountability Office research director told the House Transportation Committee. JayEtta Hecker, director of physical infrastructure issues at GAO, testified...
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Lyndsey Medsker of Community Financial ServicesAssociation of America , +1-202-296-0263 Cautions DODs Predatory Lending Policy Recommendations Were Basedon 'Limited Support' WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An August 2006Department of Defense DOD report to Congress on predatory lendingwas flawed and the resulting conclusions -- including restrictions...
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Robert Appel, Senior Vice President, Communications, ofthe National Community Pharmacists Association, +1-703-838-2682,bob.appel@ncpanet.org ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tens ofthousands of patients may be denied access to life-savingprescription drugs if Medicaid regulations cutting community pharmacyreimbursement rates go into effect as planned by federal governmentbureaucrats. According...
The federal government's effort to stop illegal counterfeited goods from entering the U.S. market is confusing and largely ineffective, according to a Government Accountability Office GAO study. The federal government has two projects aimed at illegal counterfeits, one created by the Bush administration that has no funding but a great...
The Department of Veterans Affairs is too slow to spend the money it budgeted to treat the mental health needs of veterans, including those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a Congressional study released Monday. The VA budgeted $300 million in fiscal 2005-06 for new mental health initiatives but...
In a letter addressed to the European Parliament, the EU Council of Ministers and the European Commission, the European Consumers' Organisation BEUC has called on European legislators "not to water down or weaken" the REACH(1) proposal in its final stages. The organisation recalling that the REACH...
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