WASHINGTON D.C.- U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Todd Young (R-IN), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Tom Carper (D-DE), members of the Senate Bipartisan Working Group, today introduced the bipartisan STOP Surprise Medical Bills Act, legislation to protect patients from surprise medical bills. U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and […]
13 people in Seattle were exposed to Cesium-137 at a Seattle medical research center on Thursday while a piece of equipment was being decommissioned and moved at the facility authorities report. Cesium-137 is a radioactive talcum powder-like substance that can cause serious burns, serious radiation sickness and even death with exposure to larger amounts. […]
On Monday, Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M Burgess sentenced the Anchorage accounting business owner, Jill Diane Applebury, aka: “Jill Wetzsteon,” who pleaded guilty in November, to four years in federal prison and five years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Applebury, of Applebury Accounting Services, pleaded guilty in a November […]
JUNEAU – SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) has hired Elliot J. Bruhl, M.D. to assume the newly created systemwide position of Vice President/Chief Medical Officer (VP/CMO). SEARHC created the VP/CMO position to enhance the coordination and communication of the medical staff and the rest of the Consortium. Dr. Bruhl will begin on May 6, […]