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...This month Congress will consider ways to increase the use of Medicare's hospice benefit. Senator Charles Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Special Committee on Aging, wants to clarify Medicare's requirement of a six-month life expectancy as a guideline, not a hard rule. (Reformers hope Congress will formally declare it an average instead of a cap.) Senators Susan Collins, a Republican, and Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat, also plan to introduce a more general end-of-life health-insurance plan...
...name. ALS invariably kills, but the timing is hard to predict, which runs afoul of the hospice requirement that a patient certifiably have no more than six months to live. Coverage can be extended only if deterioration is continuous or if death is predictable within subsequent six-month periods. Doctors determined that they could not certify Lane, after she had spent a year in her original hospice, a third time, but Haven House executive director Metta Johnson was willing to make that call. "This is one of many areas where the laws need to change," says Johnson. "ALS patients...
...mimed having sex with a dead moose and tricked his grandmother into licking a sexual device, so is it any wonder that kindred spirit DREW BARRYMORE--who gleefully bared her breasts for David Letterman--snapped him up before anyone else could? The couple announced their engagement following a six-month romance that included Green's successful treatment for testicular cancer and Barrymore's difficult stay on the set of the Charlie's Angels movie. It's Green's first engagement, Barrymore's third (she was briefly married to a barkeep in 1994 and briefly engaged to Jamie Walters from Beverly...
...Tuesday, Judge Judith C. Savage denied a motion from Brown's lawyers for a six-month continuance of the trial...
When the Class of 2000's loans are due--the first bills will arrive in January, following a six-month grace period--this debt will mean an average monthly payment of $150 to $200. Associate Director of Financial Aid Janet L. Irons says that as long as these payments don't exceed 10 to 15 percent of graduates' income, graduates should theoretically be able...