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Conyers Therapy Center Owner Billed Medicaid Using a Dead Psychiatrist's Name
A Fulton County grand jury has indicted the 74-year-old owner of a metro Atlanta mental health provider on charges he kept billing Medicaid under a psychiatrist's name for roughly two years after the doctor had died. Desmond Maul, of Conyers, is accused of collecting more than $88,000 in Medicaid payments between August 2021 and September 2023 for services tied to a psychiatrist who was no longer alive.
Gwinnett Daily Post
MARLOWE: Green infrastructure takes root in Griffin
I recently attended the ribbon cutting of the Green Stormwater Infrastructure Demonstration Site in Griffin. This functional display of practices for stormwater control in residential landscapes is housed at the Research and Education Gardens connected to the University of Georgia campus and research station in Spalding County. The University of Georgia Center for Urban Agriculture installed this green stormwater infrastructure demonstration to model innovative practices for mitigating stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces which causes soil erosion, water pollution, and flooding in streams and rivers. Green stormwater infrastructure is an alternative approach to stormwater control that reduces rainfall runoff from developed landscapes using plants, soils, and engineered materials. It promotes rainwater collection and infiltration to maintain the natural hydrologic cycle of water. So, what kind of innovative techniques am I talking about? Rain barrels, for one. An obvious choice for rainfall harvesting and storage in small amounts. Another is pervious grid systems. These use interlocking plastic frames to create stable, load-bearing surfaces that allow rainwater to soak into the ground below. And you can park your car on them! Also able to bear heavy loads, pervious paver blocks allow stormwater to infiltrate between them to the ground below. This means surface
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One Nation Overcharged event highlights health care costs in Georgia
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Atrium Health Navicent names Elmer Polite as new president for Middle Georgia hospitals
MACON, Ga.(WGXA) — Atrium Health is welcoming a new president to its Middle Georgia area hospitals. The health system announced Wednesday that Elmer Polite will be stepping into the role this September, leading hospitals and care facilities across the midstate, including Atrium Health Navicent medical centers in Macon, Milledgeville and Byron.
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Ga. doctors see COVID spike with new stomach-related symptoms
ALBANY, Ga. - Some doctors in Georgia say they are seeing more patients with COVID 19 and the flu, and the symptoms look different this time. Nationally, COVID activity has been rising through the summer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that during the back-to-school season, COVID-19 activity...
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Georgia panel hears how PBM practices affect drug costs and pharmacy access in Macon
MACON, Ga. (WGXA) — The Georgia House Study Committee on Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM) and Consumer Access to Prescription Medications held its second official meeting Wednesday morning at the Mercer School of Medicine in Macon. Established by House Resolution 948, the House Study Committee on PBMs and Consumer Access...