The hospital industry is pleased with a recent rule change that will provide a wage index increases for four years to hospitals that have been on the low end of reimbursements. Sen. Richard Shelby, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced the rule change earlier this month.
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Daily News Digest – August 20, 2019
Ainsworth comes out swinging against tolls; Prisons chief removed after Epstien death; Twitter shuts Chinese accounts targeting Hong Kong protests; Trump backs away from background checks.
Twitter shuts Chinese accounts targeting Hong Kong protests
Twitter said Monday it has suspended more than 200,000 accounts that it believes were part of a Chinese government influence campaign targeting the protest movement in Hong Kong.
US prisons chief removed from position after Epstein’s death
Attorney General William Barr removed the acting director of the Bureau of Prisons from his position Monday, more than a week after millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein took his own life while in federal custody.
Ainsworth: Find Mobile bridge option without ‘extorting’ citizens
Alabama Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth came out strongly against a proposed toll on a planned $2.1 billion bridge in Mobile on Monday.
Daily News Digest – August 19, 2019
New law severs rapists' parental rights to any child; In the Weeds w/ Martha Roby; Bham bridge is on time; Matthew Stokes on the Vitality Index
$700M rebuilding of Birmingham interstate on schedule
Officials say the reconstruction of Interstate 59/20 through downtown Birmingham remains on schedule.