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Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week.

January 19-26 2024

The Energy Department announced its pausing all new liquefied natural gas export facilities. This puts a pause on export terminal in Louisiana which would have been the nation's largest to date. The Department will use the pause to study the climate impact of LNG exports. Environmentalists cheer this as a major win they have long pushed for.

The Transportation Department announced 5 billion dollars for new infrastructure projects. The big ticket item is 1 billion dollars to replace the 60 year old Blatnik Bridge between Superior, Wisconsin, and Duluth, Minnesota which has been dangerous failing since 2017. Other projects include $600 million to replace the 1-5 bridge between Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, $427 million for the first offshore wind terminal on the West Coast, $372 million to replace the 90 year old Sagamore Bridge that connects Cape Cod to the mainland,$300 million for the Port of New Orleans, and $142 million to fix the I-376 corridor in Pittsburgh.

the White House Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access announced new guidance that requires insurance companies must cover contraceptive medications under the Affordable Care Act. The Biden Administration also took actions to make sure contraceptive medications would be covered under Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and Federal Employee Health Benefits Program. HHS has launched a program to educate all patients about their rights to emergency abortion medical care under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. This week marks 1 year since President Biden signed a Presidential Memorandum seeking to protect medication abortion and all federal agencies have reported on progress implementing it.

A deal between Democrats and Republicans to restore the expand the Child Tax Credit cleared its first step in Congress by being voted out of the House Ways and Means Committee. The Child Tax Credit would affect 16 million kids in the first year and lift 400,000 out of poverty. The Deal also includes an expansion of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit which will lead to 200,000 new low income rental units being built, and also tax relief to people affected by natural disasters

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted for a bill to allow President Biden to seize $5 billion in Russian central bank assets. Biden froze the assets at the beginning of Russia's war against Ukraine, but under this new bill could distribute these funds to Ukraine, Republican Rand Paul was the only vote against.

The Senate passed the "Train More Nurses Act" seeking to address the critical national shortage of nurses. It aims to increase pathways for LPNs to become RNs as well as a review of all nursing programs nationally to see where improvements can be made

3 more Biden Judges were confirmed, bring the total number of Judges appointed by President Biden to 171. For the first time in history the majority of federal judge nominees have not been white men. Biden has also appointed Public Defenders and civil rights attorneys breaking the model of corporate lawyers usually appointed to life time federal judgeships

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Top Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management Companies To Know In 2023

In the midst of the digital age's information deluge, a paradox emerges: the surfeit of data can often lead to confusion rather than clarity. This quandary is acutely felt by hospitals, health systems, physician practices, and healthcare organizations as they grapple with the increasingly intricate intricacies of Revenue Cycles. Navigating through the multifaceted interactions with government agencies, private payers, and patients has become a paramount endeavor, ensuring the seamless collection of funds for essential medical services.

Within this landscape, The RCR|HUB emerges as a beacon of streamlined solutions. Addressing the prevalent disparity of information, it serves as a centralized platform where more than 1,100 companies converge, offering cutting-edge Revenue Cycle Management solutions meticulously tailored to the unique demands of Revenue Cycle healthcare sector.

In stark contrast to the vast array of Google search results that can often lead to information overload and added confusion, The RCR|HUB curates a targeted resource. It functions as a strategic compass for industry stakeholders, offering a curated selection of strategies, technologies, and methodologies aimed at simplifying revenue collection processes and elevating the financial efficiency of healthcare establishments.

By housing an extensive spectrum of insights and solutions, The RCR|HUB empowers healthcare RCM teams to surmount the challenges of Revenue Cycle intricacies. It serves as an invaluable repository where healthcare organizations can access comprehensive guidance and discover innovative pathways to not only navigate the complex landscape but to thrive within it. In a world inundated with screens that often leave us lost, The RCR|HUB stands as a unified and purposeful resource, unraveling complexities, and steering healthcare RCM towards a more prosperous and cohesive RCM CommUnity.

To further assist RCM professionals, below is a list of Revenue Cycle Management Categories offered by the RCR|HUB:

- Accounting

- Accounts Receivable Services

- Advisory Board Services

- Archival Software and Services

- Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Machine Learning

- Authorization Software and Services

- Auto, Workers Compensation and VA A/R Services

- Bad Debt Purchasing Groups

- Bad Debt Recovery

- Banking

- Billing

- Billing Compliance Software and Services

- Bundled Payment Software and Services

- Call Center Software and Services

- Care Management Software and Services

- Cash Acceleration Services

- Cash Reconciliation Software and Services

- Charge Description Master Software and Services

- Claim Management

- Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) Software and Services

- Coding Services Onshore

- Coding Services Offshore

- Coding Software

- Collection Agency

- Consent Form Software

- Contract Management Software and Services

- Cost Report and Reimbursement Consulting

- Credit Balance

- Credit Scoring Software and Services

- Cybersecurity

- Data Management

- Data Security

- Denial Management Services

- Dictation/Speech Recognition Software and Services

- Early Out Self Pay Collection Services

- EDI Software and Solutions

- Education and Training

- EHR

- Eligibility and Benefit Verification Software and Services

- Enterprise Resource Management & ERP

- Executive Placement

- Financial Assistance

- Financial Services

- Financial Services: Counseling and Point of Service Collection

- HIPAA Compliance Services

- HIPAA EDI Compliance

- ID, Security, and Tracking

- Insurance Accounts Receivable Services

- Insurance Follow-up Workflow Software

- Interim Executive Placement

- IT

- Lean Certification Training and Consulting

- Legal Services

- Management Consulting

- Medicaid Assistance/Enrollment Software and Services

- Medical Billing

- Medical Coding Audit and Accuracy Services

- Medicare Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN) Software and Services

- Medicare Bad Debt Software and Solutions

- Merchant Software

- Online Bill Pay Software or Bill Pay Software

- Outsourcing

- Patient Accounting Systems

- Patient Identification and Address Verification

- Patient Itinerary and Patient Experience

- Patient Pay Financing

- Patient Pay Workflow Solutions

- Patient Payment Solutions

- Patient Price Estimator Software and Services

- Patient Registration

- Payment Processing Software and Services

- Payor Portal Access Systems

- Performance Measurement

- Post discharge Insurance Discovery

- Practice Management Software and Services

- Propensity to Pay Software and Services

- Provider Credentialing/ Enrollment Software and Services

- Release of Information Software

- Revenue Cycle Consulting & Assessment

- Revenue Cycle Data Analytics

- Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

- Scheduling Software and Services

- Staffing and Recruiting

- Telehealth Billing

- Time and Attendance Systems

- Transfer DRG Review Services

- Untapped Referral Revenue

- Utilization Management

- Vendor Management Software and Services

- Zero Balance Review Services

Confluence of the RCR|HUB's targeted offerings and the multifaceted demands of Revenue Cycle Management encapsulates a transformative potential for RCM leadership. As healthcare organizations embrace online, data-driven solutions like The HUB, they are better equipped to triumph over complexities and cultivate financial resilience partnerships.

Are you ready to transform your Revenue Cycle Management? Take the first step and explore the myriad solutions available at www.rcrhub.com. Unleash the potential to streamline operations, enhance financial efficiency, and thrive in the intricate world of healthcare Revenue Cycle.

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The best strategy to expand the company’s reach is always to outsource medical billing services. In addition to a demanding schedule, managing the problems of medical bills would be riskier. India is the #1 country that most US healthcare organizations consider when they are looking to outsource medical billing and coding services.

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VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica)

Six months ago, Propublica began beating the drum about "Free File," a bizarre, corrupt arrangement between the IRS and the country's largest tax-prep firms that ended up costing the poorest people in America millions and millions of dollars, every single year.

The scam is one of those baroque, ultimately boring and complex stories that generally dies in the public imagination despite its urgency, because "boring and urgent" is the place where the worst people can do the worst things with the least consequences.

With that warning, here's a short summary: in most wealthy countries, the tax authority fills out your tax return for you, using the information your employer already has to file every time it pays your wages. If all the numbers look right to you, you just sign the bottom of the form and send it back, without paying a tax preparer. If, on the other hand, you want to claim extra deductions, or if something complicated is going on with your finances, you can throw away that free tax return and fill in a form from scratch, either on your own or with the help of a professional.

When Americans asked to have the same courtesy extended to them -- a move that would save the vast majority of Americans millions and millions of dollars they were currently paying to the likes of HR Block and Intuit/Turbotax, every single year of their entire working lives -- the tax-prep industry mobilized to kill the proposal. The industry (which is highly concentrated and dominated by a small handful of firms whose top execs have mostly done time in all their competitors' board rooms, making them into essentially one giant company whose different divisions have different shareholders) lobbied the IRS very hard, and won a resounding victory.

That victory is called "Free File." Under Free File, each tax prep company is required to serve a slice of working Americans with free, online tax-preparation. The arrangement was hailed as a victory for public-private partnerships, harnessing the efficiency of the private sector to perform this public duty of the state. Importantly, it meant that the IRS would not expand its headcount or budget, both of which had been slashed by successive right-wing presidents and their legislative enablers. The move was cheered by anti-tax extremists like Grover Nordquist, who was delighted by the "efficiency" of you saving a bunch of pieces of paper the government already had, typing them into an online form, and hoping that a company's website came up with the same calculations that the government had already made about your tax-bill.

Part of the Free File deal banned the IRS from creating a competing offer and it banned the IRS from advertising the existence of the program or telling people where to find the free offering.

As soon as the ink was dry on Free File, the tax-prep companies set about to sabotage it. Intuit -- a massive company led by a bizarre cult figure -- and its competitors hid their Free File offerings deep in their sites, and used the "robots.txt" system to instruct search engines to hide them. They took out search ads for the phrase "Free File" that directed users to paid offerings with the word "free" in their names. They created "Free File" systems that would make you go through hours of work entering your data before surprising you with a notice that you didn't qualify for Free File because you'd paid interest on a student loan (or some other normal thing) and then ask you if you wanted to pay to keep your work and finish your tax-return in the non-free system.

There's a simple name for this kind of activity: fraud.

But it was a fraud in plain sight, one that went on for years and years, and which created a stealth tax on the majority of Americans, which they had to remit not to the IRS, but to the tax-prep companies, which used the money to lobby to make it even harder to get away from handing them your money every year.

Enter Propublica, whose relentless reporting did the seemingly impossible: it made a complicated, boring important thing into something that millions of Americans cared about. Something they cared about so deeply that they actually managed to shame the IRS into taking action.

Remember, the IRS is an administrative agency, under the direct control of the Trump administration. That means its commander-in-chief is a guy who said dodging his taxes means that he's "smart." While the IRS has many good, hardworking staffers, it has also been demoralized and gutted by the right, who have convinced millions of poor people that it's somehow in their interests if it's easier for rich people to duck their taxes.

Despite all this, the IRS has enacted new Free File rules: first, these rules ban tax-prep companies from hiding their Free File offerings, and it bans them from using deceptive names for non-Free File offerings (Turbotax will no longer be allowed to confuse Americans by offering "Turbotax Free" -- which is not free -- as a competitor to "Turbotax Free File," which is).

Second, the rule allows the IRS to develop its own competing Free File product, which means that the government agency that already knows how much tax you owe will allow you to review its findings each year and then either challenge them, or simply click OK, without paying a single cent of tax to Intuit or HR Block, and free you from filling in lengthy, bureaucratic forms.

This outcome is nothing short of miraculous: it did not come as the result of Congressional action. It did not come as the result of the Trump administration's inattention (the release came out the same day that the Trump administration revised its tax rules to allow money launderers to retain billions in the loot they've stashed offshore).

It came about as the result of fucking journalism. Propublica wrote its way into a better world, with relentless, deep, accessible reporting that made this boring, important thing come to life.

I am sympathetic to the idea that talking about politics isn't doing politics, but that's not entirely true. Learning about what's going on and telling the people you know about it and getting them to tell others is part of how we make change. Propublica's excellent reporting wouldn't have mattered if people hadn't read it -- and talked about it.

And Propublica has done this repeatedly over the past year, deeply reporting on naked, grotesque corruption in ways so vivid and undeniable that they actually changed things, and not in some abstract, boring way, but in ways that matter to the immediate, lived experience of real people who had been brutalized and poisoned and jailed and mistreated with impunity, for years, until Propublica wrote about it.

Here are some examples, just from the stories I paid attention to this year (Propublica does so much good work that I can't manage to cover all of it):

* Reformed South Carolina's "magistrate judge" system that let "judges" with no legal background and less training than barbers sentence poor people (most of them Black) to prison in defiance of their constitutional rights;

* Dismantled Illinois's system of Quiet Rooms where special ed kids were put into solitary confinement, sometimes for days at a time;

* Shamed a "Christian" hospital into ending its practice of suing thousands of patients, many of them its own employees, for inability to pay their medical debts, and forcing it to jettison the private army of debt collectors it kept on its payroll.

* Killed an Illinois scam whereby affluent parents temporarily gave up custody of their own children so they could steal college grants earmarked for poor children;

* Got two Louisiana cops fired for encouraging people to murder Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez;

In addition, Propublica has done lots of reporting that hasn't yet created political transformations, but has changed our debate and laid the groundwork for change to come: called attention to the penniless hero of the ransomware epidemic; discredited a "walking polygraph" system used by police forces to frame their preferred suspects with sheer junk science; documented the link between pharma company bribes and doctors' prescribing; named every former lobbyist in the Trump administration; tracked every penny of the 2008 bailout money; documented Wayne LaPierre's self-dealing from the NRA's war-chests; documented the grifty conservative PACs that scammed millions out of scared old white people with racist Obama conspiracies and then kept the money for themselves; published a blockbuster story on the theft of southern Black families' ancestral lands through a legal grift called "heirs' property"; debunked the "aggression detection" mics being installed in America's classrooms; outed a "ransomware consultant" that was working with ransomware crooks to simply pay the ransom, while pretending that they were able to get you your files back without enriching the crooks who locked them up; named and shamed Alabama sheriffs who lost their re-election bids and then spent thousands of public dollars on frisbees or stole discretionary funds, or destroyed food earmarked for prisoners, or drilled holes in all the department computers' hard-drives in a form of "vindictive hazing"; followed the payday lender industry to a Trump hotel where it staged an annual conference, funneling millions to the president's personal accounts shortly before Trump reversed Obama's curbs on predatory lending; documented how TSA body-scanners single out Black women for humiliating, discriminatory hair-searches; revealed the secret history of wealthy people destroying the IRS's Global High Wealth Unit; and did outstanding work on the Sackler family, a group of billionaire opioid barons whose products kickstarted the opioid epidemic that has now claimed more American lives than the Vietnam war.

2019 was a dumpster-fire of a year and 2020 could be worse -- or it could be the dawn that breaks after our darkest hour. Finding Propublica's victory lap on Free File on New Year's Day was just the sunrise I needed to give me hope for the year to come. Sometimes, simply finding the truth and telling it to the people can make a change.

I'm a Propublica donor, and an avid reader. I admit that sometimes when I see that PP has published another 15,000-word expose, I am slightly dismayed at the thought that I'm about to lose 1-2 hours of my life to digesting and writing up the new story, but that dismay is always overcome by excitement at the thought that they have turned over a new rock and found something genuinely awful beneath it, and that, with all our help, we can sterilize that foetid sludge with blazing sunshine.

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To those of you who keep asking “How are we gonna pay for that?”... here it is.

How Bernie Pays For His Proposals

Rebuild America Act

Cost: $1 trillion in 10 years

Funding: Taxing corporate offshore income

Revenue: $100 billion / year

College For All

Cost: $75 billion in 1 year

Funding: Wall Street speculation tax

Revenue: ~$300 billion / year

Social Security Expansion Act

Cost: $1.2 trillion in 10 years

Funding: Remove payroll tax cap for earnings above $250,000 

Revenue: $1.2 trillion / 10 years

Employ Young Americans Now Act

Cost: $5.5 billion in 2 years

Funding: Closing carried interest loophole

Revenue: $15.6 billion / 10 years

Offer 12 Weeks of Paid Family and Medical Leave

Funding: Additional .02% payroll tax

Revenue: $319 billion / 10 years

Keep Our Pension Promises Act

Cost: $29 billion in 10 years

Funding: Closing tax loopholes on estate taxes and artwork

Revenue: $29 billion / 10 years

Responsible Estate Tax Act

Funding: Progressive estate tax on inheritances over $3.5 million; closes estate tax loopholes

Revenue: $214 billion / 10 years

End Polluter Welfare Act

Cost: $110 billion in 10 years

Funding: Ends tax breaks and subsidies for fossil fuel industries

Revenue: $135 billion / 10 years 

Medicare For All Healthcare Plan:

Cost: $1.38 trillion in 1 year

Funding: Paid for by a 6.2% income-based healthcare premium paid by employers, a 2.2% income-based premium paid by households, progressive income tax rates, taxing capital gains and dividends the same as income from work, limiting tax deductions for the rich, adjusting the estate tax, and savings from health tax expenditures

Revenue: $1.39 trillion / year

(Not included in the proposals above)

Green New Deal

Cost: $16.3 trillion in 15 years

Funding:  Paid for from various sources, including $6.4 trillion in revenue from selling energy via power marketing authorities, $2.3 trillion from income taxes from the new jobs created under the plan, $1.2 trillion from reducing military expenses related to protecting oil shipping routes

That money would then be spent across many different clean energy and climate adaptation programs:

$40 billion for a climate justice resiliency fund for under-resourced groups like Native Americans, people with disabilities, and the elderly to prepare for climate change

$200 billion for the United Nations Green Climate Fund to help other countries reduce their emissions

$1.52 trillion to deploy renewable energy and $852 billion for energy storage

$526 billion for an underground high-voltage direct current power transmission network

Eliminating Medical Debt

Cost: $81 billion

Funding: The federal government will negotiate and pay off past-due medical bills in collections that have been reported to credit agencies.

Along with that, the abusive and harassing debt collection practices will come to an end by:

Prohibit the collection of debt beyond the statute of limitations.

Significantly limit the contact attempts per week a collector can make to an individual through any mode of communication, regardless of how many bills are in collection.

Require collectors to ensure information about a debt is fully accurate before attempting to collect.

Substantially limit the assets that can be seized and the wages that can be garnished in collection to ensure consumers do not lose their homes, jobs, or primary vehicles and will be able to financially support their families.

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Wasn’t He Recently Elected As President?

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5 Signs You Are Partnered With A Good Offshore Medical Billing Company

Have you ever thought about hiring an offshore medical billing company but aren’t sure if it’s the right step for your practice?

Perhaps your company is having difficulty reworking denials, or you have a higher-than-expected percentage of claims being returned due to incorrect coding or patient data.

Every practice has different challenges, but almost every medical enterprise could benefit from assistance in lowering the charge-off ratio and improving reimbursement rates.

Undoubtedly, hiring an offshore medical billing company can assist you in meeting those objectives. But simultaneously, it is critical that you conduct thorough research before signing a contract for services. An inexperienced medical billing agency, or one that does not provide ongoing training and development, may actually halt your efforts to improve reimbursements.

Here are the 5 signs that signify your partnership with a good offshore medical billing company:

Specialty Practices Support

It is critical to ensure that the offshore medical billing companies under consideration are well-versed in your specific practice. Specialty services have different billing codes and documentation requirements than general services provided by family practitioners and PAs. It is always recommended to work with an offshore medical billing company that specializes in your type of practice because these companies provide ongoing training to ensure that their employees are aware of new mandates and regulations. Specialty providers also have personal relationships with insurance companies and compliance monitors, so they know how to avoid costly mistakes that could limit or result in an outright denial of your reimbursement.

Adequate Technological Function and Capabilities

When you entrust your billable charges to an outside medical billing company, you must ensure that the technological equipment they use is compatible with the Practice Management and EHR software you already use or plan to deploy. Streamlining operations is critical if you want to save minutes that add up to hours, lowering payroll costs and cost per visit. When fully integrated PM and EHR systems are used in conjunction with outsourced medical billing companies, the potential for cost savings is enormous. Interoperability-enabling technology assists medical practices in identifying and correcting potential billing errors more quickly and easily, saving the practice time, money, and staff stress.

Experience in the Medical Billing Industry

We understand that every medical company has to start somewhere, but entrusting your revenue to a brand new medical billing company is not a good idea. Especially now, when the healthcare industry is waiting to see what changes will occur in the market. So, in addition to providing 24-hour support and service, look for offshore medical billing companies with a proven track record, verifiable references, and evidence of experience working in your medical specialty. Inquire about how the company manages risk prevention and online security on a proactive basis. The offshore medical billing company you select should have a forward-thinking vision with strategies and solutions for today and tomorrow, as well as a scalable technology network, which brings us to number three on the list of must-haves.

Communication and Transparency

Finding time to train your in-house staff may be difficult, particularly if your practice is expanding. That is why partnering with an offshore medical billing company that is committed to assisting your team with a smooth transition is critical to success. Your billing partner’s self-education and training tools can mean the difference between relieving staff burdens and adding another point of contention.

Is the company’s response time guaranteed, even after hours? How frequently are software updates released, and what kinds of reports can your practice expect each month? You should also make sure that there is a policy in place that allows key personnel to contact authorized workers at the billing agency in the event of an emergency or if you require an immediate response.

Extensive Training and Resources

The best offshore medical billing companies provide their employees with ongoing, in-depth training. Rules are constantly changing, and CMS and other insurance agencies adjust their expectations. It is also critical that you collaborate with an offshore medical billing company that offers adequate training and professional development opportunities to front-line and back-office practice staff. To improve your RCM, your billing partner should be able to provide staff with webinars, live cloud-based training, on-site workshops, and alike.

Conclusion

Whether your practice is experiencing rapid growth or you are looking for ways to make your practice more efficient so that you can begin efforts to bring in new patients, it makes sense to consider outsourcing medical billing services. Outsourcing to an experienced agency such as Info Hub has numerous advantages, as long as you carefully vet the companies for your contract.

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10 Reasons To Outsource Medical Billing Services

Along with doctors and caregivers, a clinic and hospital only get stronger with a strong backend staff. The people handling medical billing and coding are the invisible engines in the healthcare machinery, and this engine needs to handle this task properly and all the medical codes need to be kept up-to-date, to ensure their patients are reimbursed properly.

However, medical billing and coding can be demanding and daunting tasks for many practices and firms with no access to the required skilled team to handle the tasks properly. As a result, physicians, healthcare providers, and practitioners prefer outsourcing medical billing tasks to a third-party service provider.

But why outsourcing medical billing is beneficial? Why practices should outsource medical billing?

As a practice, you need to consider all the benefits of outsourcing medical billing before actually getting in contact with an agency. With this article, our team at 24/7 Medical Billing Services is providing a list of various reasons as to why medical billing outsourcing is good in certain cases.

1. Increased Revenues: Practices can save a lot of time and money by outsourcing medical billing. This is served in terms of salaries, purchasing, office infrastructure, upgrading, and maintaining billing software. With decreased overhead costs, increased reimbursement, and timely submission, practices can experience improvement in their revenues too.

2. Increased Control: Practices have a misconception that medical billing outsourcing may make them lose control over their business processes. Many practitioners have stated that they now have better control over their medical billing processes since they outsource along with saving money on training and billing staff. This control is directly connected with your operational benefits, which stand to benefit from outsourcing.

3. Improved Safety: Medical billing outsourcing to a third-party service provider is perfectly safe. Expert outsourcing agencies offer a very transparent billing process. Most medical billing agencies have HIPAA-compliant and 100% secure billing processes to keep practices safe against any hacking attempts. Companies need to have the assurance about their data safety and well-regarded outsourcing agencies have the required security and infrastructure to provide a safe environment for medical billing outsourcing operations.

4. Reduced Labor Costs: An average healthcare practice spends around 30-40% of its collections on the medical billing processes. Outsourcing medical billing processes can save a lot of unnecessary costs for the practice. Having a dedicated medical billing team in-house can be avoided by outsourcing, and the money spent on training it and keeping them up-to-date with the latest regulations.

5. No Capital Investment: When your practice decides to outsource medical billing, you no longer need to invest in the billing software or any of the equipment. With no software on board, you also don’t have to spend extra on costly software upgrade investments as well. As you outsource the medical billing process, the costs are hugely reduced, and in most cases, you can get started easily without any initial capital investments at all.

6. Trained Specialists: Various offshore agencies have trained staff that is highly experienced and the team is experts in all the business requirements of outsourced medical billing and coding. This team reviews and follows up on all payments and makes sure all the carriers are paying the right amount. An agency expert in medical billing and coding tracks until it is processed and the full amount is paid, thereby reducing overheads.

7. Changing Regulations: The medical billing world is highly exposed to the changing rules and regulations. Tracking and maintaining pace with all these changes can be time-consuming for any practice. Outsourcing your medical billing can be managed by the outsourcing partner.

8. Adherence to ICD 10: The latest development in ICD may be a rising concern amongst the medical community. The new coding changes always create a massive impact on the time management and payment outcomes for healthcare practices. Once you get a team offshore to handle all your medical billing, they get to handle ICD, most of whom are already well-versed with the sweeping regulations involved.

9. More Time for Patients: When you outsource the medical billing, health practitioners get more time to focus on the patients. It’s good for business to invest your business time into your core competencies.

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Summary of the achievements by week. More info can be found in each week’s post and by following the links there. 

(when it says $ was announced for a project, that is the relevant agency’s plan to distribute that money in a program- the agencies are of course funded by Congress and do not just decide unilaterally how to spend taxes)

Week 1

Limit bank overdraft fees proposal- 

effective October 2025 if approved

Fine oil/gas companies for emitting methane proposal

Fully effective 2026 if approved 

$104 million in grants to support clean energy projects

$5 billion student loans canceled for income driven repayment and public service loan forgiveness plans

Launched program to fight lead exposure in developing countries

Deal reached to revive the expanded child tax credit projected to lift 400,000 kids out of poverty in first year

Week 2

Paused all new natural gas export facilities 

$5 billion for infrastructure projects like fixing bridges, interstates, and offshore wind terminals.

New guidance requires insurance companies to cover contraceptive medicine under Affordable Care Act

Medicaid, Medicare, CHIP, and Federal Employee Health Benefits Program also must cover it

Federal agencies reported on progress implementing the order to protect medication abortion signed 1 year ago

Expanded child tax credit deal made it out of committee in The House

Senate foreign relations committee passed a bill to distribute $5 billion in seized Russian assets to Ukraine

Senate passed Train More Nurses Act

3 more Biden judges confirmed

Week 3

House overwhelmingly passed expanded child tax credit deal

Began negotiations on drug prices for Medicare

$240 million to modernize/refurbish airports across the country

Announced the 10 sites across US that will receive innovation investment for clean energy, sustainable textiles, semiconductor manufacturing, etc

State dept. reviews options for recognizing Palestinian statehood

Imposed sanctions on Israeli settlers who have engaged in violence against Palestinians and peace activists 

Loan to help reopen a Michigan nuclear power plant as part of goal to decarbonize the electric grid

IRS launched program to let people file taxes for free with them instead of paying for programs like TurboTax 

$28 million in grants for help with treatment of substance use disorders.

$72 million for 46 hydroelectric projects

Senate confirmed Biden's 175th federal judge. 

For first time in history a majority of a president’s nominees are not white men

Week 4

Announcement that 23 million Americans have been connected to high speed internet through the Affordable Connectivity Program. Sadly, the program will be forced to end if Republicans in Congress continue to block new funding

$5 billion for a National Semiconductor Technology Center

Finalized rules that will strengthen air quality standards around soot. Projected to prevent 4,200 premature deaths and save Americans $46 billion in health costs

$1.5 Billion investment in America's bus systems

Memorandum directing a strengthening of human rights safeguards around weapons transferred from US stockpiles to allied nations

Announced joint program to streamline Gov response to homelessness between HHS, HUD, 8 states and DC

Released study projecting Puerto Rico will be able to be 100% renewable energy by 2050

Low income Puerto Ricans will soon be able to apply for a solar power program, the first investments in a billion dollar DoE program for the island's renewable energy future

$417 million dollar loan to the North Carolina Turnpike Authority to complete a major transportation overhaul in the greater Raleigh area

Announced plan to invest federal funds to help measure and reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas production

Senate confirmed 2 more Biden nominated federal judges

Week 5

Released first draft for a new student loan forgiveness plan that will hopefully hold up in court

1.2 Billion Dollars to combat human trafficking, including $175 million in housing assistance to human trafficking victims

$970 Million for improvements at 114 airports across 44 states and 3 territories

Medicare & Medicaid released new guidelines to allow people to pay out of pocket prescription drug costs in monthly installments rather than as a lump sum

Added 150 more communities to EPA’s Closing America's Wastewater Access Gap Community Initiative to ensure people have basic running water and indoor plumbing

Announced deferred action for Palestinians in the US. This means any Palestinian living in the United States, no matter their legal status, can not be deported for any reason for the next 18 months

This will need to be renewed next year. A Harris administration almost certainly will. A Trump administration likely won’t.

$60 million in investment into clean geothermal energy

$83 million to help improve air quality monitoring across America

$63 million in investments in domestic heat-pump water-heater manufacturing. Which  reduce greenhouse gasses by 50% over the most efficient condensing gas boilers\

$5.1 million to organizations working on preventing homelessness, fighting depression and suicide, drug use and HIV prevention and treatment, family counseling, etc for LGBTQI+ Youth and their Families

In support of the oppressed Uyghur minority in China, the House passed 2 bill that would prohibit US Gov from spending money on projects that source materials from Xinjiang and create a permanent post at the State Dept. to coordinate policy on Uyghur Issues

Week 6

$5.8 billion in funding upgrade America's water systems

Canceled $1.2 billion in student loan debt for 153,000 borrowers through the SAVE Plan which erases federal student loan balances for those who originally borrowed $12,000 or less and have been making payments for at least 10 years

$100 million in federal funding for women’s health research

500 new sanctions against Russian targets in response to the murder of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny

$700 Million in new investments to benefit people in rural America for high speed internet, clean drinking water, sanitary wastewater, and more

$1.5 billion in upgrades to expand chip factories to boost American semiconductor manufacturing

$1.25 billion in  funding for local projects that improve roadway safety

The 2022 Safe Streets and Roads for All program has spent $1.7 billion in 1,000 communities impacting 70% of America's population

$19 million to help New Jersey buy electric school buses

Bonus: NASA landed spacecraft, Odysseus, on the moon, the 1st time in 50 years America has gone to the moon.

Week 7

$1.7 Billion in new commitments from local governments, health care systems, charities, business and nonprofits towards ending hunger in America

The White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities has also led to the USDA’s program which feeds children over the summer in 37 partnering states

House passed a bill on Nuclear energy expanding the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Capping copays that families pay to no more than 7% of income for the CCDBG grants for childcare and streamlining payments to childcare providers, ensuring prompt payment

House passed a bill improving the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) program which offers wide ranging training and support to small business owners who are socially and economically disadvantaged, predominantly native owned businesses

Announced steps to boost housing supply and lower home costs through a program which has created 12,000 affordable housing units since 2021 with $2 billion, and a program which has spent $4.35 billion since 2021 to build affordable rental homes and make home ownership a reality for Americans.

Also funding for manufactured housing, the first administration to do so

$336 million in investments in rural, remote, and tribal communities to lower energy costs and improve reliability

Proposed new rules to ensure airline passengers who use wheelchairs can travel safely and with dignity

$3 Billion dollar program to help ports become zero-emission

$1 Billion dollars to help clean up toxic Superfund sites

Bonus: Sweden cleared the final major barrier to become NATO's 32nd member

Week 8

Finalized a rule capping credit card late fees at $8

Announced a new Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing (especially targeting shrinkflation) 

Proposed a new rule banning bulk billing, where in landlords charge tenants of apartment buildings for internet, cable, or satellite services, even if they do not use it or opt into being billed

Announced actions that have prevented the collapse of the Colorado River system which provides drinking water and electricity for 40 million Americans in the Southwest. 

Executive Order to expand apprenticeships and reestablish direct communication between unions and management in federal agencies (a program allowed to lapse under Trump)

Actions to lower price of health care

Medicare negotiating prices for 10 drugs, first time in history they are allowed to negotiate prices

Proposal that medicare should be able to negotiate 50 such drug prices a year

Medicare Part-D capped the yearly price of ALL medications at $2,000

The President wants to expand this cap to all Americans

President called on congress to make permanent the tax credits for insurance premiums that saved Americans an average of $800/year 

President called for $12 billion in Women's Health Research to help close the historic research gap

President called for surprise billing protections to apply to ambulance providers, meaning people won't have to worry about an outrageous bill for an ambulance ride

Announced the first over-the-counter birth control pill will be available on pharmacy and store shelves nationwide and online later this month, and major pharmacies CVS and Walgreens will now offer the abortion pill Mifepristone

In the State of the Union, Biden called for a ceasefire in Gaza to release the hostages and bring in wide-ranging humanitarian aid.

Added over 100,000 more additional households to rental assistance

Called on Congress to expand it by more than half a million and to pass a bill giving $25,000 in down payment assistance to first-generation homebuyers

President wants to expand the Affordable Housing Program and the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. Also seeks tax credits for 1st time buyers and those selling their starter homes at under market value to owner-occupant

Bonus: March 7th 2024, Sweden formally joined NATO

Week 9

IRS launched direct file pilot program

Biden expressed support for trans and non-binary youth in the aftermath of the suicide of Nex Benedict, and Dept. of Ed.’s Office of Civil Rights opened an investigation into his school district

Vice President Kamala Harris became the first sitting Vice-President (or President) to visit an abortion provider as part of her Reproductive Rights Tour

$3.3 billion worth of infrastructure projects across 40 states designed to reconnect communities divided by transportation infrastructure

Taking steps to eliminate junk fees for college students, plan to ban schools from automatically billing for textbooks and pocketing leftover money on student meal plans

$120 million in investments to help boost Climate Resilience in Tribal Communities

$750 million dollars in investment in clean hydrogen power

$2.3 billion loan to build a lithium processing plant in Nevada (a key component in rechargeable batteries used it electric vehicles)

$1.2 billion in funds to reduce pollution in public transportation

Geothermal Energy Optimization Act introduced in the Senate, which would help expand geothermal projects on public lands.

The Justice for Breonna Taylor Act was introduced in the Senate banning No Knock Warrants nationwide

Bill was introduced in the House requiring the US Postal Service to cover the costs of any late fees on bills that USPS failed to deliver on time

Senate Confirmed 3 more Biden nominees to be lifetime federal judges: Jasmine Yoon the first Asian-America federal judge in Virginia, Sunil Harjani in Illinois, and Melissa DuBose the first LGBTQ and first person of color to serve as a federal judge in Rhode Island. Brings total # of Biden judges to 185

Week 10

Announced new emission standards with the goal of having more than half of new cars and light trucks sold in the US be low/zero emission by 2032

Canceled nearly $6 Billion dollars in student loan debt for 78,000 borrowers who work in public sector jobs like teachers, nurses, social workers, firefighters, etc

Under Pressure from the administration and Democrats in Congress, Drugmaker AstraZeneca joins rival Boehringer Ingelheim in capping the price of inhalers at $35, the same price the Biden Admin capped the price of insulin for seniors

The Dept. of Justice sued Apple for being an illegal monopoly in smartphones

EPA passed a rule banning the final type of asbestos still used in the United States

$8.5 billion to help build advanced computer chips in America

Executive Order prioritizing research into women's health and directing $200 million into it

Democratic Senators introduced the "Shrinkflation Prevention Act" 

$45 million in projects that improve Bicyclist and Pedestrian Connectivity and Safety

$77 Million to put 180 electric school buses onto the streets of New York City

Senate confirmed Nicole Berner to Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, along with Edward Kiel and Eumi Lee as district judges, bringing Biden’s federal judge appointments to 188

Week 11

The Administration responded to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, promising to clear the harbor and rebuild the bride. $60 million in emergency funds are already released, and Biden is expected to seek $1 billion from Congress

VP Harris announced $1 billion dollars in new investments as part of the Central America Forward partnership to improve conditions in Central America so people there are not so desperate to trust human traffickers to reach the US. Also announced $175 million dollars of direct aid to Guatemala

Announced $1.5 billion dollar loan to help restart the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan

Social media push to inform the public about the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan under which anyone making $16 an hour or less has a monthly payment of $0 on their student loans. Republicans are suing to try to shut down the SAVE Plan

Biden extended the window for low-income Americans to apply for Obamacare, rolled back Trump era rules that allowed subsidies for "Junk Health insurance" which offer very little coverage, often mislead consumers about what’s covered, and don't have to follow Obamacare standards so can refuse to cover preexisting conditions.

Announced new regulations aimed at "turbocharging" the number of electric trucks on the road

Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, 41 different drugs will cost Medicare enrollees less than last year, announced the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

$6 billion for an effort to decarbonize energy-intensive industries

Executive Order to Strengthen the Recognition of Women’s History

Senate confirmed 3 federal judge nominees, total Biden appointees now 190

Week 12

Biden united with Bernie Sanders at the White House to review Democratic efforts to bring down drug prices.

In the wake of the Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster, the federal government has released $60 million in emergency money toward rebuilding so far,and the Administration is working with business and labor unions to keep workers at work and cover lost wages.

$20 billion to help finance tens of thousands of climate and clean energy projects across the country like clean power generation/storage, 0-emission transportation, etc. 70% will be invested in low-income and disadvantaged communities

$20.5 billion in investments in public transportation

$4 billion in tax credits for businesses investing in clean energy, critical materials recycling, and Industrial decarbonization

$1.5 Billion in investments in climate-smart agriculture

Approved the New England Wind offshore wind project- the 8th such offshore wind project approved by the Biden administration

Dept. of interior announced:

$320 Million for tribal water infrastructure

$244 million to deal with legacy pollution from mining in the State of Pennsylvania

$25 million to protect wetlands in Arizona

$19 million to put solar panels over irrigation canals in California, Oregon and Utah

Dept. of Energy announced $27 million for 40 projects by state, local and tribal governments to combat climate change

Week 13

A further 277,000 Americans had student loan debt canceled through the SAVE plan, bringing Biden’s total to 4.3 million people seeing $153 billion of debt canceled so far

Biden announced a plan that would relieve debt for 30 million Americans through steps like automatically canceling debt for eligible public servants instead of them needing to apply.

Announced rules closing gun-show loophole so that all gun sales legally require background checks, even for gun shows or private sales online

EPA published the first ever regulations on PFAS, known as forever chemicals, in drinking water.

Dept. of Commerce announced a deal with microchip giant TSMC to bring billions in investment and manufacturing to Arizona

EPA finalized rules strengthening clean air standards around chemical plants

Dept. of the Interior announced it had beaten the Biden Administration goals when it comes to new clean energy projects

$830 million to support local communities in becoming more climate resilient.

Senate confirmed 3 federal judge nominees, total Biden appointees now 193

Week 14

Dept. of Commerce announced a deal with Samsung to help bring advanced semiconductor manufacturing and research and development to Texas

Dept. of Energy announced it granted New York State $158 million to help support people making their homes more energy efficient

Dept. of Education began the formal process to make President Biden's new Student Loan Debt relief plan a reality

$1 billion dollar collaboration with USAID to buy American grown foods to combat global hunger

food aid will help feed people in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Haiti, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Yemen

Dept. of Interior announced expansion of four national wildlife refuges to protect 1.13 million acres of wildlife habitat and signed an order protecting parts of the Placitas area sacred to the Pueblo people

announced new workplace safety regulations about the safe amount of silica dust mine workers can be exposed to.

Administration announced its progress in closing the racial wealth gap in America. 

Black Unemployment is the lowest it's ever been since it started being tracked in the 1970s and the gap between white and black unemployment is the smallest it's ever been as well

Black wealth is up 60% over where it was in 2019

The share of black owned businesses doubled between 2019 and 2022 and new black businesses are being created at the fastest rate in 30 years

Since the creation of the Interagency Task Force to combat unfair house appraisals, the likelihood of black homeowners having their homes undervalued compared to whites who own comparable property has dropped by 40% and even disappeared in some states

2023 represented a record breaking $76.2 billion in federal contracts going to small businesses owned by members of minority communities. This was 12% of federal contracts and the President aims to make it 15% for 2025

EPA announced it plans to add PFAS, known as forever chemicals, to the Superfund law

Week 15

Biden with AOC, Bernie Sanders, and Senator Ed Markey announced a program, Solar For All, providing $7 billion aimed at supporting low income households install solar power

New rule raises income cap for required overtime. Before, employers only had to pay overtime to employees earning less than $35,568 a year. Now, the limit is $43,888, and in January 2025 it will be raised again to $58,656

$1 billion dollar program to help replace heavily duty vehicles with clean energy versions

To protect 13 million acres of Alaska wildland and secure the livelihood of Alaska native peoples who rely on it, the administration refused oil and mining rights as well as a 210 mile road across vast areas of northern wilderness

Finalized rules requiring airlines to give automatic cash refunds for canceled flights and other inconveniences

Finalized rules on emissions standards for fuel burning power plants

Security of Transportation Pete Buttigieg attended the ground breaking of a new high speed rail project to connect Los Angeles and Las Vegas, which the administration announced $3 billion to support last year

FCC announced a new rule restoring Net Neutrality

FTC passed finalized regulations to ban non-compete agreements in nearly all cases

$1 billion project to connect tribal communities to safe drinking water

announced plans to protect, restore and reconnect 8 million acres of wetlands and 100,000 miles of rivers and streams

Dept. of Health and Human Services announced a new rule boosting privacy protection for abortions

Harris announced a new rule requiring staffing standards at Nursing Homes across the country

$6 billion deal with tech giant Micron to bring high tech manufacturing to New York

Dept. of Education finalized the most comprehensive federal protections for Trans and other Queer students in the nation's history

Week 16

$3 billion to help replace lead pipes in the drinking water system

Biden canceled the student debt of 317,000 former students of a fraudulent for-profit college system

Biden expanded two California national monuments protecting thousands of acres of land

announced new rules that will require car manufacturers to install automatic braking systems in new cars

IRS announced plans to ramp up audits on the wealthiest Americans

Dept. of Interior announced plans for new offshore wind power

Biden Administration announced new rules to finally allow DACA recipients to be covered by Obamacare

Dept. of Health and Human Services finalized rules that require LGBTQ+ and Intersex minors in the foster care system to be placed in supportive and affirming homes.

Senate confirmed another federal judge lifetime appointment, total Biden appointees now 194. For the first time in history the majority of a President's nominees to the federal bench have not been white men

Week 17

Harris announced 5.5 billion dollars to build affordable housing and address homelessness

At the 3rd meeting of the Los Angeles Declaration group (a partnership between the US and 20 other nations in the Americas), Security of State Blinken announced $578 million in new humanitarian aid to Latin America

Dept. of Energy lead an effort to get the G7 to agree to phase out coal by the early 2030s

Biden announced a major investment deal in Racine, Wisconsin, site of the failed Trump Foxconn deal which promised $13,000 jobs that never materialized, and bulldozed over 100 homes and farms before pulling out of the deal. Biden’s deal with Microsoft will bring in 2,000 new jobs to help replace the 1,000 lost jobs during Trump’s presidency

200 tribal governments and the US territories of American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, published climate action plans paid for by the administration’s Pollution Reduction Grants program

As part of marking Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), the administration announced several actions as part of their National Strategy To Counter Antisemitism, the first ever national strategy addressing the issue by any administration

USAID announced $220 million in additional humanitarian aid to Yemen

$150 million to help communities fight drought supporting 42 projects across 10 western states

Week 18

Justice Dept. endorses lifting many restrictions on marijuana

Dept. of Interior announced moratorium on new coal mining in America's largest coal producing region, the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana (40% of US coal production)

Harris announced that the administration had broken records by investing $16 billion in Historically Black Colleges and Universities

$30 billion dollars in renewal funding for the Housing Choice Voucher Program

$671.4 million in investments in rural infrastructure to improve electric and safe water utilities in 47 projects across 23 states

HUD announced a record breaking $1.1 billion dollar investment in Tribal housing and community development

$2 billion in investments in America's busiest passenger rail route, the Northeast Corridor between Washington DC and Boston

HUD announced plans to streamline its HOME program to speed up building affordable new homes

$520 million in new water projects to help protect against drought in the western states

Dept.s of Agriculture and HHS have stepped up efforts to wipe out the H5N1 virus prevent its spread to humans while protecting farmers livelihoods

Senate confirmed another 3 federal judge lifetime appointments, total Biden appointees now 197

Bonus: The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that transgender health insurance exclusions were illegal

Week 19

Biden wiped out the student loan debt of 160,000 more Americans, 

After the supreme court struck down Biden’s original broader forgiveness plan, the administration has patchworked different plans together to cancel $167 billion for 4.75 million Americans so far

Dept. of Justice announced it is suing Ticketmaster for being a monopoly

EPA announced $225 million in new funding to improve drinking and wastewater for tribal communities

Will help with testing for forever chemicals, and replacing of lead pipes as well as sustainability projects

$300 million in grants to clean up former industrial sites known as "Brownfield" sites, which will be cleaned and redeveloped into community assets for 200 projects across 178 communities

Announced a historic expansion of the program to feed low income kids over the summer holidays- rolling out SUN Bucks, a $120 per child grocery benefit

Harris builds on her work in Africa to announce a plan to give 80% of Africa internet access by 2030, up from just 40% today

Senate confirmed another 4 federal judge lifetime appointments, total Biden appointees now 201

Biden's Judges have been historically diverse. 64% of them are women and 62% of them are people of color.

Week 20

$900 million to school districts across the country to replace diesel fueled school buses with cleaner alternatives

For the first time the federal government released guidelines for Voluntary Carbon Markets- a system by which companies offset their carbon emissions by funding project to fight climate change like investing in wind or solar power

IRS announced it'll take its direct file program nationwide in 2025 to allow people to file for free through the IRS website instead of paying for programs like TurboTax

White House announced steps to boost nuclear energy in America- the single largest green energy source in the country accounting for 19% of America's total energy. This is a key part of the administration's strategy to reach a carbon free electricity sector by 2035

$824 million in new funding to protect livestock health and combat H5N1 virus to both protect the animals and make sure it doesn't spread to the human population and become another pandemic situation

announced a partnership with 21 states to help supercharge America's aging energy grid

$343 million to update 8 of America's oldest and busiest transportation stations for disability accessibility

$179 million for drought resilience projects in California and Utah and $242 million for expanding water access in California, Colorado and Washington

$150 million for affordable housing for tribal communities

Secretary of State pledged $135 million to help Moldavia, a tiny state bordering Ukraine which has long been dependent on Russian energy, but thanks to US investment is breaking away from Russia and moving forward with EU membership

US and Guatemala launched the "Youth With Purpose” initiative as part of the administration’s efforts to improve life in Central America. The initiative will train 25,000 young Guatemalans and connect them with with service projects throughout the country

Bonus: This week, May 31st 2024, was the last day of the Affordable Connectivity Program which helped 23 million Americans connect to the internet. Despite repeated calls from President Biden Republicans in Congress have refused to act to renew the program

The Biden Administration has invested $90 Billion high-speed internet investments. Such as $42.45 billion for Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment, $1 billion for the The Middle Mile program laying 12,000 miles of regional fiber networks, and distributed nearly 30,000 connected devices to students and communities, including more than 3,600 through the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program

Week 21

$480 million in safety grants to all 50 states, DC, and all the US territories as part of Biden's goal to bring the number of traffic deaths to zero

Thanks to DoT safety actions, deaths involving heavy vehicles dropped by 8% from 2022 to 2023 and the dept. wants to keep pushing till the number is 0

$2.8 billion plan to protect public land and support local government Conservation Efforts for restoring national parks, public land, and historic sites, for funding Bureau of Indian Education-funded schools, and for conservation funding.

Dept. of Transportation announced that it had managed to get customers nearly $1 Billion dollars worth of flight reimbursements

$725 million to clean up legacy coal pollution

$700 million for long-term water conservation projects across the Lower Colorado River Basin

$123 million for fighting Youth Homelessness -- the 8th round of investment in Youth Homelessness totaling $440 million so far. 

Focused on innovative answers, like host homes, and kinship care models, with emphasis on creating equitable strategies to assist youth who are most vulnerable, including BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and youth with disabilities. 

part of administration’s goal of cutting homelessness by 25% by the end of 2025

Dept. of Agriculture announced a series of actions to strength Tribal food sovereignty to support native animal harvesting, the Tribal Forest Protection Act, and serving Indigenous foods in school meal programs

Bonus: the Bidens and Secretaries of Defense and State marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy France with a handful of surviving veterans

Week 22

Harris announced that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is moving to remove medical debt for people's credit score, improving the credit rating of up to 15 million Americans

EPA, Dept. of Agriculture, and FDA announced a joint "National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics" aimed to cut food waste by 50% by 2030

Biden signed with Ukrainian President Zelensky a ten-year US-Ukraine Security Agreement to help them win against Russia and meet the standards it will need to be ready for EU and NATO membership after the war

Biden also spearheaded efforts at the G7 meeting to secure $50 billion for Ukraine from the 7 top economic nations

Announced $500 million for the development of new non-injection vaccines against Covid  supporting a clinical trial of 10,000 people testing a vaccine in pill form and two other vaccines administered as nasal sprays

$404 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and the region

$142 million for drought resilience and boosting water supplies which will provide about 40,000 acre-feet of annual recycled water, for about 160,000 people a year in California, Hawaii, Kansas, Nevada and Texas. 

Also supporting 4 water desalination projects in Southern California. Desalination is proving to be an important tool used by countries with limited freshwater

Biden took the lead at the G7 on the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment, a global program to connect the developing world to investment in its infrastructure from the G7 nations. 

Heavy investment in the Lobito Corridor, an economic zone that runs from Angola, through the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Zambia. The PGI has helped connect the 3 nations by rail allowing land-locked Zambia and largely landlocked DRC access to Angolan ports. Also is investing in a $900 million solar farm in Angola, and got a $5 billion dollar investment from Microsoft for expanding digital access in Kenya, Indonesia, and Malaysia. 

Week 23

On the 12th anniversary of President Obama's DACA program President Biden announced a new pathway to legal status and eventual citizenship for Dreamers

Biden also announced protections for the undocumented spouses and children of US citizens

IRS announced that it'll close a tax loophole used by the ultra rich and corporations and believes it'll raise $50 billion in revenue

$850 million to monitor, measure, quantify and reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector

Administration took steps to protect the nations Old Growth Forests, greatly restricting any logging against land owned by the federal government

Also touted the $1.4 billion invested in the 20% of America’s forests in urban settings such as parks through Biden’s Investing in America agenda

Released new rules tying government support for clean energy to good paying jobs. To qualify for massive tax credits, companies will have to offer higher wages and better conditions

Announced large reductions in student loan payments, and even a pause for some, starting in July

Biden Administration celebrated the 1 Millionth pension protected under the American Rescue Plan. 

Thanks to the Butch Lewis Act passed in 2021, the government stepped in to secure the pensions of 103,000 Bakery and Confectionery Union workers which were facing a devastating 45% cut- bringing to 1 million the number of workers and retirees whose pensions have been secured by the Biden Administration, which has supported 83 different pension funds, protecting them from an average of 37% cut.

$900 million for the next generation of nuclear power to invest in smaller and more flexible nuclear reactors with smaller footprints

Harris announced a $1.5 billion dollar aid package to Ukraine for repairing the devastated energy sector, emergency infrastructure repair, and humanitarian assistance

$315 million in new food, water, and malnutrition treatment aid for Sudan during their ongoing civil war which has led to nearly apocalyptic conditions in the country. USAID director warned that Sudan could quickly become the largest famine the world has seen since the 1980s when million people died over 2 years in Ethiopia. 

Bonus: Maryland Governor pardoned more than 175,000 people for marijuana convictions, mirroring Biden’s pardoning of people convicted of federal marijuana charges in 2022 and 2023

Week 24

US Surgeon General declared for the first time ever, firearm violence a public health crisis and recommended firearm restrictions

Harris announced the $85 million in first grants to be awarded through a groundbreaking program to remove barriers to building more housing

Under President Biden more housing units are under construction than at any time in the last 50 years. Plans underway to build 2 million affordable housing units and invest $258 billion in housing overall.

Biden pardoned all former US service members convicted under the US Military's ban on gay sex

$1.8 Billion in new infrastructure building across all 50 states, 4 territories and Washington DC, focusing on smaller, often community-oriented projects that span jurisdictions, like repairing damage from permafrost melting in Alaska or electrifying a bus fleet in Maine

$2.7 billion to support domestic sources of nuclear fuel

$127 million to 6 states to help clean up legacy pollution from orphaned oil and gas wells

$469 million to help remove dangerous lead from older homes

Bonus: Biden’s student loan forgiveness hit a snag this week when federal courts in Kansas and Missouri blocked some elements. The Administration also suffered a setback to its efforts to regulate smog causing pollution which were rejected by the conservative majority on the Supreme Court. These legal setbacks underline the importance of courts and the ability to nominate judges and Justices over the next 4 years

Week 25

OSHA is putting forward the first ever federal safety regulation to protect workers from excessive heat in the workplace

 $1 Billion for 656 projects across the country aimed at helping local communities combat climate change fueled disasters like flooding and extreme heat

 flight cancellations at the lowest they've been in a decade

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg credited the Dept.'s new rules requiring automatic refunds for any cancellations or undue delays as driving the good numbers as well as the investment of $25 billion in airport infrastructure that was in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

$600 million in the 3rd round of funding to reconnect communities divided by highways and other Infrastructure projects over the years, which most often affected racial minorities and poor areas.

The Biden Administration approved its 9th offshore wind power project

$504 million for 12 new Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs which will support high tech manufacturing jobs, as well as training for 21st century jobs for millions of Americans

$200 million to support improved care for older Americans, particularly those with Alzheimer’s and related dementia, by training health care providers in best practices, integrating geriatric training into primary care, and providing education for families and caregivers on supporting aging people.

$176 million to help support the development of a mRNA-based pandemic influenza vaccine

As part of the government's efforts to be ready before the next major pandemic, Moderna is working on an mRNA vaccine focused on the H5 and H7 avian influenza viruses, which experts fear could spread to humans and cause a Covid like event

Week 26

IRS announced it had managed to collect $1 billion in back taxes from high-wealth tax cheats through a program focused on persons with more than $1 million in yearly income who owed more than $250,000 in unpaid taxes. 

Thanks to funding from the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS is able to undertake more enforcement against rich tax cheats after years of Republicans cutting the agency's budget, which they hope to do again if they win power this election.

$244 million dollar investment in the federal government’s registered apprenticeship program- focused on getting well paying blue collar opportunities to people

Republicans pledge to cut it, even as employers struggle to find qualified workers

$11 billion dollars in grants for the The Hudson River Tunnel- the most complex Infrastructure project in the nation would link New York and New Jersey by rail under the Hudson, improving and speeding connection throughout the Northeast

$1.7 billion to save or reopen auto factories and convert them for electric vehicles, which will save 15,000 skilled union worker jobs, and created 2,900 new high-quality jobs

Dept. of Housing and Urban Development reached a settlement over racial discrimination with the organization responsible for setting standards and qualifications for real estate appraisers, The Appraisal Foundation. 

Black and Latino home owners are far more likely to have their houses under valued than whites. Under the settlement with HUD, TAF (which last year was 94.7% White and 0.6% Black) will have to take serious steps to increase diversity and remove structural barriers to diversity.

Dept. of Justice disrupted an effort by the Russian government to influence public opinion through AI bots, shutting down nearly 1,000 twitter accounts linked to a Russian Bot farm focused on boosting support for Russia’s war against Ukraine.

$1.5 billion to help local authorities buy made in America buses, 80% of which will go toward zero or low-emission technology busses

Biden, Canadian Prime Minister, Finnish President signed agreement on the arctic to boost production of ice breaking ships and counter China’s dominance of that market and Russia's aggressive push into the arctic waters

$1.1 billion for greater rail safety to minimize rail crossings where possible and improve safety measures where not.

$120 million to help tribal communities prepare for climate disasters

$100 million in additional funds to help feed low income kids over the summer

If fully implemented SUN Bucks could help 30 million kids, but many Republican governors have refused the funding.

$100 million to the UN World Food Program to deliver urgently needed food assistance in Gaza. This will bring the total humanitarian aid given by the US to the Palestinian people since the war started in October 2023 to $774 million, the single largest donor nation

Senate confirmed the first Latina judge to serve on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, bringing the administration’s total judge appointments to 202.

Biden has appointed more black women to federal judgeships, more Hispanic judges, more Asian American judges, and more LGBT judges than any other President, including Obama's full 8 years in office. President Biden has also focused on backgrounds, appointing a record breaking number of former public defenders to judgeships, as well as labor and civil rights lawyers.

Bonus: At the NATO summit in Washington DC President Biden joined 32 allies in the Ukraine compact which confirmed their support for keeping a free and Democratic Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression. World leaders praised President Biden's experience and leadership during the NATO summit

Week 27

Biden announced the cancellation of $1.2 billion dollars worth of student loan debt, canceling the debt of 35,000 public service workers, such as teachers, nurses, and firefighters

After the supreme court struck down Biden’s original broader forgiveness plan, the administration has patchworked different plans together to cancel $168.5 billion for 4.8 million Americans so far

Biden announced actions to lower housing costs, make more housing available and called on Congress to prevent rent hikes

The plan calls for landlords who raise the rent by more than 5% a year to face losing major important tax benefits, the average rent has gone up by 21% since 2021

Also told federal agencies to see how unused property could be used for housing

Bureau of Land Management plans on building 15,000 affordable housing units on public land in southern Nevada

 USPS is examining 8,500 unused properties across America to be repurposed for housing

HHS is finalizing a new rule to make it easier to use federal property to house the homeless

Calling on lower levels of Gov to do so as well

$5 billion to replace or restore major bridges across the country

Executive Order aimed at boosting Latino college attendance through allowing institutions with 25% or more Latino students to more easily take advantage of federal programs and expand their reach to better serve students and boost Hispanic enrollment nationwide

$325 million in grants for housing and community development in 7 cities which have collectively pledged to develop over 6,500 new mixed-income units, including replacing 2,677 severely distressed public housing units. The cities will invest $2.65 billion – so that every $1 in HUD funds will generate $8.65 in additional resources

Biden took extensive new actions on immigration 

Allowing foreign born spouses and step children of American citizens without legal status to apply for it without having to leave the country

Easing Visa rules to allow Dreamers to get work visas to give them legal status and a pathway to citizenship

New rule expanding the federal TRIO program (which supports low-income and first generation college students transition from high school to college) to cover Dreamers

Plans to double number of immigration lawyers available to those going through immigration court

$160 million in grants to support Clean U.S. Manufacturing of Steel and Other Construction Materials

$203 million in humanitarian assistance for the people of Sudan where 25 million people are facing acute food insecurity due to war

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau put forward a new rule that would better regulate popular paycheck advance products to require lenders to tell customers up front about any and all fees and charges, as well as cracking down on deceptive "tipping" options

Week 28

$4.3 billion in Climate Pollution Reduction Grants to support community-driven solutions to fight climate change, and accelerate America’s clean energy transition

Administration announced a plan to phase out the federal government's use of single use plastics in food service operations, events, and packaging by 2027, and from all federal operations by 2035

White House hosted a summit on super pollutants with the goals of better measuring them and dramatically reducing them

$325 million in grants for climate justice, funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, 

to help weatherize and energy-efficiency upgrade homes for 35 tribes, to install onsite wastewater treatment systems throughout 17 Black Belt counties in Alabama, to support urban forestry, expanding tree canopy in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and more 

Dept. of Interior approved 3 new solar projects on public land

Pledged $667 million to global Pandemic Fund to support Pandemic prevention, and readiness in low income nations who can't do it on their own

$240 million investment in tribal fisheries in the Pacific Northwest

IRS announced that thanks to funding from President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, it'll be able to digitize much of its operations allowing taxpayers to retrieve all their tax related information from one source

IRS also announced that New Jersey will be joining the direct file program in 2025. In 2024 140,000 Americans were able to file this way, they collectively saved $5.6 million in tax preparation fees, claiming $90 million in returns

Republicans in Congress lead by Congressmen Adrian Smith of Nebraska and Chuck Edwards of North Carolina have put forward legislation to do away with direct file

Bonus: American law enforcement arrested co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada

Week 29

Biden announced his plan to reform the Supreme Court and make sure no President is above the law. After the conservative majority ruled Trump has "absolute immunity" from any prosecution for "official acts" while president, Biden called for a constitutional amendment clarifying that presidents aren’t above the law

In response to a wide ranging corruption scandal involving Justice Clarence Thomas, Biden also called on Congress to pass a legally binding code of ethics for the Supreme Court, and endorsed the idea of term limits for the Justices

Biden Administration sent out an email to everyone who has a federal student loan informing them of upcoming debt relief options, mostly targeting run-away interest or those who have been making payments for over 20 years

Announced that the federal government would step in and protect the pension of 600,000 Teamsters, just the latest in a number of such pension protections the President has done in office.

Biden and Harris oversaw the dramatic release of American hostages from Russia in the largest prisoner exchange in post-soviet history at 24 people

A new Biden Administration rule banning discrimination against LGBT students takes effect, but faces major Republican resistance and lawsuits delaying implementation in red states

$2 billion to black and minority farmers who were the victims of historic discrimination and were improperly denied the loans they needed

Biden Administration took an important step to stop the criminalization of poverty by changing child safety guidelines so that poverty alone isn't grounds for taking a child into foster care

Administration agreed to a plan by the Democratic Governor of North Carolina to forgive the medical debt of 2 million people in the state (which has the 3rd highest medical debt in the nation)

Dept. of Transportation put forward a new rule requiring airlines to seat parents next to their children, with no extra cost

$3.5 billion to combat homelessness in grants to local organizations and programs

Pennsylvania and New Mexico would be joining the IRS' direct file program for 2025\

Bonus: President Biden welcomed families of released hostages into the oval office to call their loved ones on the plane home [video in week 29 post]

Week 30

$325 million to support State, territorial, DC, and tribal governments in buying new land for parks and outdoor recreation sites and the expansion and refurbishment of existing sites

$171 million to update and replace Birmingham, Alabama’s aging water system and remove all lead pipes

$2.2 billion in investments in the national power grid to help boost resiliency in the face of extreme weather

Justice Dept. won its massive antitrust case against Google, ruling it an illegal monopoly

Also has ongoing antitrust suits against Apple, while the Federal Trade Commission is suing Facebook and Amazon for their monopolist practices

$3.9 billion in direct aid to Ukraine to make up for massive budget shortfalls caused by the war with Russia. 

To help pay teachers, emergency workers, and other public employees, as well helping displaced persons, low-income families, and people with disabilities

$190 million to improve air quality and energy upgrades in K-12 schools

$424 million in additional humanitarian aid to the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Due to ongoing conflict and food insecurity, 25 million Congolese are in need of humanitarian aid

Senate confirmed 3 federal judge nominees, total Biden appointees now 205

Week 31

Announced the successful conclusion of the first negotiations between Medicare and pharmaceutical companies over drug prices. Savings on these first ten drugs are between 38% and 79% and will collectively save seniors $1.8 billion dollars in out of pocket costs

For years Medicare was not allowed to directly negotiate prices with drug companies leaving seniors to pay high prices. Thanks to Inflation Reduction Act, passed with no Republican support, this long time Democratic goal is now a reality

This is on top of capping insulin costs at $35/month and all out of pocket drug costs at $2,000 a year starting for Medicare recipients

Administration launched crackdown of companies wasting consumer time

Proposed rules that require companies to make canceling a subscription or service as easy as signing up for it

Requiring automatic refunds for canceled flights

Working on rules to require companies to allow customers to speak to a real person with just one button click

Working on rules around chatbots, particularly their use from banks

Working on rules to ban companies from posting fake reviews, suppressing honest negative reviews, or paying for positive reviews

Taking steps to require insurance companies to allow health claims to be submitted online

The Bidens announced further funding as part of the President's Cancer Moonshot which aims to cut the number of cancer deaths in half over the next 25 years

Harris announced a plan to lower housing costs- offering $25,000 to first time buyers for down-payments, building of 3 million more housing units, and $40 billion innovation fund to spur innovative housing construction- all in addition to Biden's calls for a $10,000 tax credit for first time buyers and to punish landlords who raise the rent by over 5%

Biden Designates a national monument at the site of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot, where thousands of white residents destroyed black homes and businesses and 17 people died. As a direct result of the riot, black community leaders and white allies met a few months later in New York and founded the NAACP

$775 million to help cap and clean up orphaned oil and gas wells

Harris announced plans to ban price-gouging in the food and grocery industries

In response to this pressure from Democrats on price gouging, the supermarket giant Kroger proposed dropping prices by a billion dollars

Week 32

$521 million to help increase the number of electric vehicle charging ports

Dept. of The Interior announced the first ever lease for off-shore wind power in Oregon

Finalized the protection of 28 million acres of public lands across Alaska

$558 Million for improving maternal health

Announced that Maine will join the IRS' Direct File program for tax year 2025 which allows taxpayers to file, for free, simple returns with the IRS instead of paying for services like TurboTax

Week 33

$7.3 billion in clean energy investment for rural communities

Administration announced a historic 10th offshore wind project, this one in Maryland

Executive Order aimed at supporting and expanding unions directing all federal agencies to take steps to recognize unions, not interfere with the formation of unions and reach labor agreements on federally supported projects

$1 billion to make local roads safer to 354 local communities across America to improve roadway safety and prevent deaths and serious injuries

Since National Roadway Safety Strategy launched in 2022 traffic fatalities have decreased for 9 straight quarters

$430 million to support America's aging hydropower- most dams were built in the New Deal Era, and need to be updated for safety

$300 million to help support tribal nations, and US territories cut climate pollution and boost green energy

investing $179 million in literacy to help support states research, develop, and implement evidence-based literacy interventions to help students achieve key literacy milestones

US government secured the release of 135 political prisoners from Nicaragua jailed by the dictator there since political protests started in 2018

Justice Dept. announced the disruption of a major effort by Russia to interfere with the 2024 US Elections. A Russian propaganda network spent $10 million to help spread Russian propaganda and help sway the election in favor of Trump and the Republicans as well as disrupting American society

Harris outlined her plan for Small Businesses at a campaign stop in New Hampshire- she wants to expand from $5,000 to $50,000 tax incentives for startup expenses which would help 25 million new small businesses over 4 years

Week 34

Biden marked the 30th anniversary of the passage of the Violence Against Women Act (which was written by him as a senator). He announced $690 million in grants to support survivors of gender-based violence.

Announced a new rule to force insurance companies to treat mental health care the same as medical care

Announced that 50 million Americans, 1 in every 7, have gotten health insurance through Obamacare's marketplaces

IRS announced that it has recovered $1.3 billion in back taxes from wealthy tax dodgers. The Inflation Reduction Act funded the IRS to chase high income tax cheats, which Republicans have been underfunding for years to hinder the ability to make the wealthy pay their fair share. IRS has collected over a Billion Dollars in back taxes from the richest Americans, so far this year

Dept. of The Interior and White House Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi highlighted the 41 renewable energy projects approved on public land by the administration

$236 million to help fight forest fires and restore landscapes damaged by recent wildfires

$157 million in wetland conservation focused on protecting bird habitats

Senate confirmed 4 federal judge nominees, total Biden appointees now 209

Week 35

$1.3 billion in new funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities which have proven to be far better at boosting the long term economic prospects of graduates than non-HBCU colleges. Bulk of funding will go directly to helping students afford college.

Dept. of Transportation celebrated 60,000 infrastructure projects funding by the Biden-Harris Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

From major multi-state projects to small town railway crossings every project was lead by a local community in need not a make-work project dreamed up in Washington

Over $3 billion to support the battery sector in 25 projects across 14 states supporting over 12,000 jobs

Maine and Rhode Island both launched a partnership with the federal government to help save low income families money on their utility bills

$156 million to help bring solar power to low-income New Mexico residents as part of the "Solar for All" project to help low-income people afford the switch over to solar power

Announced the first ever leases for wind power in the Gulf of Maine

Senate confirmed 2 federal district judges and 1 appointment to the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, total Biden appointees now 212

Week 36

Announced new actions to curb gun violence at the one year anniversary of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention such as an Executive Order combating machine gun conversion devices, 3-D printed guns, and addresses active shooter drills at schools

One year anniversary of the American Climate Corps has seen 15,000 young people connected to well paid jobs in climate resilience. A new Environmental Justice Climate Corps program was announced which will connect 250 American Climate Corps members with local communities and help them achieve environmental justice projects

Announced that 4.2 million small business owners and self-employed people get their health insurance through the ACA marketplace. The self-employed are 3 times as likely as other Americans to use the marketplaces for their insurance

Pressed freight railroad companies to close the gap and offer paid sick time to all their employees. Under Biden's leadership the number of Class I freight railroad workers with paid sick days increased from 5% to 90%. Now he is pushing to get it for the last 10%.

$965 million to help school districts buy clean energy buses

The administration took another step in its historic efforts to protect the Colorado River System by signing 5 water conservation agreements with local water authorities in California and Arizona conserving over 717,000 acre-feet of water by 2026

$254 million to help support local parks, the largest such investment in history

$1.5 billion to help combat opioid addiction and prevent opioid overdose deaths

$466.5 million in food assistance and development worldwide this year, including helping to feed 1.2 million children and helping 200,000 farmers shift to climate-smart agriculture in low-income countries

First Lady announced at UN meeting a partnership with USAID and UNICEF to end childhood exposure to lead worldwide

Senate approved another federal judge, total Biden appointees now 213

Week 37

Biden and Harris have led the federal response to Hurricane Helene earning praise from both Republican and Democratic local leaders. Thousands of federal workers have given out over 8 million meals, and 7 million liters of water. Harris announced the federal government will reimburse state and local government 100% of the costs from Helene

A strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association, that briefly shut down ports, ended in a tentative deal to give them a 62% raise, after Biden directed the Secretary of Transportation to take the lead pressuring management to make a deal with the workers

Harris announced new actions to help those struggling with medical debt- 

Requiring debt collectors to confirm debts are valid and accurate before engaging in collection actions

Cracking down on debt collectors that collect on debt that is not owed by patients

DoD announced that it was reducing pricing for civilians who get medical treatment at DoD hospitals

Crack down on tax-exempt hospitals who are required by law to offer financial assistance but often do not

$62 Billion in infrastructure funding for 2025 for roads, bridges, high speed rail, ports, airports, and high speed internet

$1 Billion dollars of investment in America's passenger rail future to help expand and modernize intercity passenger rail nationwide. (Coming on top of $8.2 billion in investments announced in December 2023)

$2.8 billion joint project between Dept.s of Energy and Agriculture to bring 100% carbon pollution-free energy to the rural Midwest

IRS announced that 30 million Americans, across 24 states will qualify for free direct filing of their taxes in 2025

$7.7 billion in funding for Climate-Smart Practices on Agricultural Lands

$1.5 billion in investments in transmission infrastructure to help ensure our grid is reliable and resilient

Week 38

Biden announced a new EPA rule that will require all lead pipes in America's drinking water systems to be replace within 10 years

Harris plans to expand Medicare to cover home health care. Currently long term care is only covered by Medicaid, the health program for the poor, so people must spend all their savings before they can qualify. This would allow more seniors to stay in their homes and would be a gamechanger for disabled Americans, who also get coverage from Medicare

Medicare released a preliminary list of 101 generic drugs which it would cover that would cost $2 or less for a month for enrollees. Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, Medicare will be allowed to pay for generic drugs, which was long resisted by drug companies

Administration’s Domestic Policy Advisor announced they had blown past goal of hiring 250,000 student support staff for 2024, with 320,000 tutors, mentors, student success coaches, postsecondary transition coaches, and support coordinators nationwide

$420 million to help get rid of lead paint and other lead hazards from homes

Week 39

Announced they had forgiven the student loan debt of 1 million public sector workers through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness, which was passed in 2007 but almost impossible to access until the Biden Administration’s overhauls

Federal Trade Commission finalizes its "one-click to cancel" rule which requires businesses to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it was to sign up for it

Announced there are 1.7 million more construction and manufacturing jobs and 700,000 more jobs in the transportation sector since the start of the administration, and 400,000 more union workers than in 2021. 

60,000 Infrastructure projects across the nation have been funded by the Biden-Harris Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

$2 billion to protect the U.S. power grid against growing threats of extreme weather

$125 million to help upgrade older diesel engines to low or zero-emission solutions

Dept. of The Interior and State of California broke ground on the Salton Sea Species Conservation Habitat Project restoring and protecting a total of 5,000 acres of land in California’s largest lake

$900 Million in investment in next generation nuclear power, developing smaller lighter reactors which in theory should be easier to deploy

The federal government took two big steps to increase the rights of Alaska natives. 

The Departments of The Interior and Agricultural finalized an agreement to strengthen Alaska Tribal representation on the Federal Subsistence Board

Dept. of Interior  signed 3 landmark co-stewardship agreements with Alaska Native Tribes

$860 million to help support solar energy in Puerto Rico

Dept. of Interior announced it had approved the Fervo Cape Geothermal Power Project, a major step forwards towards geothermal energy of public lands and the goal of a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035

Bonus: Biden meets with a Kindergarten Teacher whose student loans were forgiven this week [video in week 39 link]

Week 40

Biden issued the first presidential apology on behalf of the federal government to America's Native American population for the Indian boarding school policy

Proposed a new rule which would make contraceptive medication (the pill) free over the counter with most Insurance

EPA announced its finalized rule strengthening standards for lead paint dust in pre-1978 housing and child care facilities. The new standards set the lowest level of lead particle that can be identified by a lab as the standard for requiring lead remediation

$50 million dollar fine against American Airlines for its treatment of disabled passengers and their wheelchairs. Half the fine will go to replacing such damaged wheelchairs

Biden administration has leveled a historic # of fines against airlines ($225 million) for their failures. Also published an Airline Passengers with Disabilities Bill of Rights, passed a rule on accessible lavatories on aircraft, and is drafting a rule to make airlines replace lost or damaged wheelchairs with equal equipment at once

$430 million dollars to help boost domestic clean energy manufacturing in former coal communities in 15 different towns

$4.2 billion in new infrastructure investment for 44 projects across the country

$200 million to replace aging natural gas pipes saving the average consumer over $900 on gas bills and removing 1,000 metric tons of methane pollution, annually

$244 million to address legacy pollution in Pennsylvania coal country

Data shows that President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (passed with Vice-President Harris' tie breaking vote) has saved seniors $1 billion dollars on out-of-pocket drug costs by capping yearly out of pocket costs and allowing generic drugs and price negotiation

Announced new proposed rule to bring student debt relief for 8 million struggling borrowers

Despite roadblocks from Republicans at all levels, the administration has managed to bring student loan forgiveness to 5 million Americans so far through different programs patchworked together. The new proposed rule to bring it to 8 million more can’t be finalized before 2025, so the election will decide its fate

$1.5 billion in 92 partner-driven conservation projects aimed at making farming more sustainable and environmentally friendly

What Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did in 2024.

I started this project back in January and for most of a year, every week, I came up with the highlights of what the Biden-Harris Administration did. I did it because it felt to me our media and national conversion was broken, our government was doing huge things that it felt like almost no one knew about. It's amazing how often I struggled to find a single news source that wanted to cover a huge life changing project.

This is the last Friday before Election Day, and if you haven't already voted, take a minute to go back and look at the last 40 weeks, and decide, do you like these things or want literally the reverse on every issue.

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Feel free to reblog this or go back and reblog a favorite, one that impacts your life or the one from the week of your birthday, whatever.

and remember to read past the headlines and dig to find out what your government is up to, it might shock you how much is happening that no one talks about.

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Benefits of Outsourcing Medical Billing Service

 Outsourcing medical billing services is becoming more common nowadays. American business systems streamlined processes, superior systems, state-of-the-art technologies, economies of scale, and experienced workers filled with specialized knowledge and experience often result in better cost reductions and outcomes. Medical billing outsourcing hasn't just gotten its foot in the door as a way to save money. Clients increasingly perceive American business systems as a tool that provides broader business benefits, which is driving the trend. Let's have a look at some of the benefits:

Primarily Concerned With Patient Care

Being a competent doctor and an administrative manager at the same time is always a problem. However, hospitals can free up staff time and secure greater returns by shifting resources away from complex billing problems and helping patients. These high-value activities help the center not only produce more money but also build and maintain a more successful practice with a dedicated patient base. As a result, healthcare professionals can focus on what they do best: practicing medicine and treating patients, rather than navigating between payers and regulatory obligations.

Billing Errors Are Reduced

Experienced and well-trained medical billers are well-versed in the complexities of claim submission. Medical billing firms ensure that their employees receive thorough process training and pass the appropriate quality and domain-driven knowledge assessments. These medical billers assure accuracy and timely filings while at work. They not only lower the number of claims that are denied, but they also check and modify claims for problems before sending them to the payer.

It Is Cost Effective.

One of the key motivations for outsourcing medical billing to American business systems is to save money. Hospitals can save money on salaries, training, and benefits by outsourcing medical billing. Hospitals can also save money on office supplies, furniture, and hardware purchases or upgrades.

Improves Cash Flow

American business systems reviews allow companies to maintain a regular cash flow and faster collection regardless of their staffing situation. In addition, allowing a specialized agency to handle medical billing swiftly will enable hospitals to gain higher economies of scale.

Patient Satisfaction Is Boosted

Clients may concentrate solely on patient care because the outsourced vendors' primary goal is to maximize income. Offshore medical billing services ensure that each code is quickly reimbursed, that errors are quickly recognized and that denial is followed rapidly.

Ensures Billing Accuracy

American Business System has been supplying medical billing and complete healthcare outsourcing back office solutions to clinics and hospitals of all sizes. Compliance will always be thoroughly integrated into all operations of a mature firm. Internal and external audits will be used to supplement these rules and procedures.

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Are there loopholes in your AR process? Is your practice facing revenue losses? It goes without saying that unpaid accounts receivable stifle cash flow and rob you of the funds you need to invest in expansion prospects, purchase new machinery, and recruit staff, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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USDA Announced New Federal Crop Insurance Board Members

USDA Announced New Federal Crop Insurance Board Members:     In a recent newsletter published by The Federal Association of Agriculture and Agribusiness, Food Technology Resources (FAERS), a leading food tech firm, announced new crop law on January 31.  California Farmers Mutual Financial Services, in part, is the largest Farmers Mutual Financial Group in California. It was the fourth-largest Farmers Group Premium Group, as per data released by insurance agencies, by 2016. California was the fourth-largest Farmers Insurance Market Market by ADK. If you live within the Golden State’s borders, you’ve likely already heard or already have a farm, and they may have insurance policies for you on your property. There’s also, California farmers’ group covers crops, livestock and more. In 2018, California Farmers Life Insurance was  for . You can file for an auto insurance benefit to help pay the first $1,500 in medical bills to help cover the.

Conrade Insurance Group, Inc. Included In IIABA’s 2020 Best Practices Study

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Things never quiet down around a footballer like Cristiano Ronaldo. The world speaks about his goals, his hairstyle, his tax return. Pictures of him in underwear or of his girlfriend in a bikini emerge on the internet and in newspapers.

It's a permanent background noise. That's why it's that much more disconcerting when a topic is completely silenced.

Eight years ago in Las Vegas Ronaldo met a woman, Susan K. She would later claim to have been raped by him. SPIEGEL wrote in April about the American's claims. The case made a few waves. Then Ronaldo scored five goals in the Champions League quarter final against FC Bayern and later three more in the semi-final against Atlético Madrid. The history of Susan K. was quickly forgotten.

Ronaldo stepped in front of the cameras and microphones of the reporters and spoke about his ambitions for Real Madrid. Nobody asked him about the Las Vegas case. His fans made posts and tweets in which rape emerged like a poisonous stylistic device.

"to watch how Ronaldo rapes the strongest teams in Europe is so Ronaldoesque. "

"Next he'll rape Juve."

Football is an emotionnal theater that can be hard to grasp. Forgiveness, hate, then forgiveness again happen faster than in normal life. A victory, a loss, a goal can change everything.

There is unconditional worship too. Diego Maradona is nut, but he is loved by his fans because he was a genius with the ball. Franz Beckenbauer had his lot of mischiefs in his career, but his supporters stood by him, because he brought the World Cup to Germany both as a player and as a coach.

Ronaldo too  is a fairytale character for his fans. A boy from a simple background. At 17 he debuted in the pro team of Sporting Lisbon. At 18 he moved to Manchester United. At 23 he crashed a Ferrari. Nowadays, Ronaldo is 32 and everything in him seems enormous. He earns almost 40 millions euros a year with Real Madrid and has 119 millions of  Facebook followers.

Ronaldo denies having raped the American in June 2009 in a Palms Place Hotel's suite in Las Vegas. What is sure however is that the two settled out of court. He paid 375.000 dollars, as a countermove to silence the woman for good.

After SPIEGEL reported on the case, the agency of Ronaldo's adviser Jorge Mendes released a statement. It was full of falsehoods. Among other things, it claimed there was no proof that Ronaldo had anything to do with the case. The statement was quoted world-wide. And it quickly seemed as if everything had been solved. See! they say it wasn't him!

SPIEGEL then published a second article and released excerpts of the out of court settlement between Susan K. and Ronaldo, bearing the signature of the footballer. This time there was no statement from Ronaldo's agency. It also wasn't necessary. Since the new facts did not get through to the public anymore, they bounced off of most medias as if there was there an invisible wall. To this day the big Madrid newspaper "El País" did not report on the rape accusations against Ronaldo.

"This silence is odd" says journalist and feminist Shireen Ahmed. For years the canadian activist has been criticaly covering the football business. The media's inertia toward Ronaldo and Susan K.'s case outrages her. "Some people probably think, well, he paid her, it's in the past. But that's not how it works", says Ahmed, "even if the case was settled in private, this doesn't mean that nothing happened or that it isn't relevant anymore".

The Champions League final in Cardiff on saturday will not decide how Cristiano Ronaldo will be rated as a footballer. Wether he wins or loses, he'll be for a long time one of this sport's greatest players. But is he also a big personality? Or is he a liar, a cheat?

Stars like Ronaldo live in a bubble. The Portuguese surrounds himself with an entourage which takes care of his wellbeing and of the dirt that sometimes comes with the business. Finance and marketing experts, lawyers, PR advisers compose the team. They all had work to do during these last months. Last december SPIEGEL published a cover story based on the Football Leaks documents, which made brought to light Ronaldo's tax schemes. Ronaldo's spokesperson reacted by saying that the player hadn't paid all the taxes he should have – but that he had not deliberately frauded. Between 2011 and 2014 he could have avoided 15 million euros of taxes, according to the public prosecutor's office. Should it end up in court, the superstar risks a prison sentence.

For years Ronaldo's defensive chief has been the portuguese jurist Carlos Osório de Castro, a cool headed man who doesn't quickly lose track. He was one of the firsts in july 2009 to hear about Susan K's claims - and he reacted promptly. He contacted experienced lawyers in the USA and set up a chain of legal defense. Ronaldo's troops sometimes acted like characters from a Grisham movie. A private detective was tasked to investigate Susan K. He collected details about her life story, about her parking tickets. The man kept Susan K.'s house under surveillance, sometimes for hours at a time.

Once the detective quoted in a protocol that SPIEGEL was able to read : "Ms K. has left the house yesterday evening shortly before 8 pm, went to the MGM hotel, parked her car and met a young man whom she embraced in the lift." Another day, he observed them in a restaurant : "Susan K. drank red wine. She had more than (3) three glasses of wine." For the detective the job was a lucrative one. Between august and november 2009, he charged sums of 4.881 dollars, 8.079 dollars, 11.152 dollars, 10.000 dollars and in december even 23.668 dollars. However, the results the man made did not seem to satisfy his clients. One of the US lawyers pushed in an email to hire a second detective and disprove the presumed victim's claims of suffering psychological damage following her rape : "hopefully we'll witness moments where she goes out and enjoys the nightlife and men of Las Vegas." Susan K. states that Ronaldo anally raped her in the morning hours of the 13th june 2009. She went home after the alleged act. Then she called the police and was brought by the officers to an hospital. There Susan K.'s "rape kit", a special examination undergone by victim of sexual violence to gather evidences, revealed anal injuries.

It was particularly important for Ronaldo's lawyers to dismiss these findings. SPIEGEL was able to read a legal document in which the jurists planned a mediation meeting in january 2010. In the document, a "medical expert" is quoted stating that K.'s injuries could have been caused by "different objects". Then follows the explanation of a retired investigator who states that K. had enough time to injure herself before the arrival of the police. The document also mentions a sum suggested by the lawyers of Susan K. : 40.000 dollars. "A very generous offer", the jurists thought. They ended up paying almost ten times as much. Why didn't Ronaldo sue the American if he was beyond reproach ? Why did it come to an arrangement out of court? Why did he pay a hush money ?

In the documents SPIEGEL was able to read – part of the Football Leaks data - was an email in which one of Ronaldo's lawyers presents the opinion of a criminal law expert from Las Vegas. The expert has "big concerns" about the case coming to trial. Ronaldo's chances would be "50/50" – with the risk of a prison sentence.

Two weeks after Real Madrid won the Spanish championship, Cristiano Ronaldo gave a short interview. He did not speak directly about the tax case, he did not speak about Susan K. He said there were people, with "stones in their hands" ready to throw them at him. Ronaldo likes to speak in allusions. He is a drama queen. "I am talked about as if I was a criminal", he says. In the end critics will have to be silent. "I'll make things right."

It is difficult to say whether the case of Susan K. even affects him. His entourage, his sponsors ignore the affair. Nike, the nutrition company Herbalife or the watch manufacturer TAG Heuer didn't answer inquiries from SPIEGEL. The media in Spain and Portugal would rather discuss Ronaldo's son talent with a ball or girlfriend's newest wardrobe. Things go on as if nothing had happened.

In the footballer's environment it is rumored that the rape accusations could be less problematic for him than the way Susan K's case was handled financially. At that time the lawyer's expenses amounted to a 6-figure amount. The bills went to the Irish firm MIM, which handles Ronaldo's advertising revenue. To pay the arrangement sum to the presumed victim, Ronaldo's lawyers chose the bank account of an offshore firm in the british Virgin Islands. An inquiry from SPIEGEL on the issue remained unanswered.

Ronaldo hasn't talked so far about the rape accusations. Susan K. also doesn't speak about what happened in the suite of the Palms Place hotel. She firmly respects the silence clause. Her story of what happened that night was written down months after the alleged act in a letter to Ronaldo. K.'s depictions are sharp, she is deeply hurt, her rage is immense. In the out of court arrangement between Susan K. and Ronaldo, it was set that his lawyer Carlos Osório de Castro had to read out the letter to his client. Whether it happened, however, is unclear. When the jurist was reminded of the agreement at the end of September 2010 by one of the US lawyers, Osório de Castro wrote back that he had given the letter to Ronaldo. If this is true, it wasn't an easy moment for Ronaldo. But he might not know to this day what the letter contains. When Osório de Castro confirmed to the US lawyers that he had read out the letter, he sent a copy of the email to a lawyer and colleague in Portugal. The latter responded to Osório de Castro with an email. In it was only a word: "Pinocchio".

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