News Tipoffs - Kentucky Editors
Empower Oversight Presses CMS to End Payments for Psychoeducation
FAIRFAX, Virginia, Nov. 7 -- Empower Oversight Whistleblowers and Research, an organization dedicated to enhancing independent oversight of government and corporate wrongdoing, issued the following news release:
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Empower Oversight presses CMS to End Payments for Psychoeducation
November 6, 2026
WASHINGTON - Empower Oversight is pressing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to end payments to entities utilizing the code for "psychoeducational service."
Empower Oversight's requ
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Environmental Working Group: Nearly 7M U.S. School Students May Be Exposed to Pesticides Used to Treat Crop Fields
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- The Environmental Working Group issued the following research:
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Nearly 7M U.S. school students may be exposed to pesticides used to treat crop fields
1 in 4 schools within a quarter-mile of pesticide-treated fields, new EWG analysis shows
By Geoff Horsfield (EWG), Al Rabine (EWG)
November 5, 2026
Nearly 20,000 U.S. public elementary and middle schools sit within a quarter-mile of crop fields where harmful pesticides may be sprayed, a new EWG analysis finds. Almos
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