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“I condemn these attacks in the strongest terms. The attempt to penetrate the line of contact with Nagorno Karabakh defenses was an unacceptable provocation and an attempt to precipitate further conflict.
Washington, D.C. - Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) announce the release of a Government Accountability Office study on insurance coverage of infusion services for patients at home, an alternative that could potentially save money by allowing more infusion procedures to be done outside of costly hospital or nursing home settings. The new study from the GAO compared coverage of the treatments under traditional Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) and private health plans, including Medicare Advantage plans.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) announced starting June 10, Medicare will begin mailing out to tens of thousands of seniors $250 ‘donut hole’ checks. Under the recently enacted health reform law, seniors who fall in the donut hole coverage gap in 2010 will receive this one-time tax-free $250 rebate check. These checks will continue to be mailed monthly over the next several months as seniors enter the coverage gap.
“I believe this court ruling is long overdue and that the executives of Union Carbide and its Indian subsidiary deserve to be criminally prosecuted. The court’s sentence of merely two years for those responsible for the world’s worst chemical disaster is outrageous.