The 340B program lets eligible hospitals and clinics buy drugs at a discount and then bill insurance companies, Medicare, or Medicaid at market rates. Hospitals get to keep the money they make from the difference. But emergency hospitals — a designation created to help struggling small hospitals — are not eligible for 340B discounts.
Faced with the proliferation of hemp-derived THC, Iowa lawmakers passed new restrictions on the sale of consumable hemp products. In doing so, they limit parents who give their child CBD — for some, the only seizure drug that works.
Recap of news from across the state
School’s out for summer for many of Iowa’s college and university students, but that doesn’t mean work has stopped across the sprawling campuses — where hard hats have replaced commencement caps and skid loaders have taken the place of scooters.
Whether they were the result of weeks of engineering, or held together with “a stick of gum and some cardboard,” every boat in the Freedom Festival’s Cardboard Boat Regatta faced the same challenge on Saturday: travel out and around a buoy in Manhattan Park’s Robbins Lake without sinking.
A federal bankruptcy judge on Friday afternoon confirmed a Chapter 11 plan of liquidation for the former Mercy Iowa City hospital, despite push back from its former managing partner MercyOne — which now, under the plan, remains exposed to future lawsuits.
Residents may select the garbage cart size they prefer as the city of Marion transitions to automated curbside collection of garbage, recycling and yard waste in September.
Annual festival continues through weekend
The Iowa state agriculture department is asking for federal assistance to address the avian influenza outbreak, which on Friday was confirmed in a second herd of dairy cattle.
Retired Linn County Chief Public Defender Brian Sissel suddenly died of a heart attack this week. Judges, friends, co-workers and court staff fondly remember Sissel as “zealous advocate’ for his clients and being a ‘sincere, positive energy force’ who could lighten the mood with his ‘infectious laugh.’
Two 20th century planes were scheduled to offer flights from the airport in Cedar Rapids through Sunday.
History shows incumbent presidents with low approval ratings typically hurt down-ticket candidates
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