to explore Medicare needs
Congressman Jim Kolbe moderated a panel discussion this week regarding the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 with Jeff Flick of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Calise I. Muoz Department of Health and Human Services. The Tucson town hall was sponsored and hosted by Tucson Medical Center and OASIS Seniors Program.
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new president and officers
Philip E. Keen has been named president of the Arizona Medical Association. He will serve a one-year term in that capacity. Additional officers elected include: president-elect Leonard F. Ditmanson, Vice President M. Zuhdi Jasser, Secretary Mary E. Rimsza and at-large members Karla L. Birkholz, Roberto P. Garcia and Richard T. Perry. For more information, visit www.azmedassn.org
Small Biz Administration
withdraws criteria proposal
The U.S. Small Business Administration is withdrawing proposed rules that would have changed the standards by which a business is designated 'small' for the purposes of government programs. The administration estimated that 34,100 businesses would be adversely affected by the re-designation in which employee counts vary from industry to industry in determining what constitutes a small business.
"We are here to serve those small business owners, and we take their concerns very seriously," SBA Associate Deputy Administrator for Government Contracting Allegra McCullough said. "That is why we are going to step back and study this rule further. There is no doubt that our current system of size standards is in need of simplification, but we want to make absolutely sure that we do it in the right way. This issue is important to our mission, and it's important to America's small business owners."
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