By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 One in three (33.3%) children in the United States are overweight or obese. Childhood obesity puts children at risk for health-related problems that were once seen only in adults such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart…

Como un servicio más a nuestra comunidad México–Estadounidense, el Consulado de México, Ventanilla de Salud y el Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior, invitan a la “Jornada Sabatina de Salud”, el próximo sábado 26 de septiembre, de las 10:00 am a las 2:00 pm. En donde se realizarán de…

The medical biller of a Chicago-area visiting physician practice was sentenced today to 45 months in prison for her role in a $4 million health care fraud scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Fardon of the Northern District of…

by Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune When Texas lawmakers drafted a budget for the next two years that included deep cuts to therapy services for poor and disabled children, they ordered state bureaucrats to perform a tricky balancing act: figure out how to slash payments to therapists, but consider sustaining…

The United States has intervened in a lawsuit and filed a complaint against H. Ted Cain, Julie Cain, Corporate Management Inc. and Stone County Hospital Inc. for submitting false claims to the Medicare program by knowingly charging excessive and ineligible expenses from 2002 to the present.  Stone County Hospital is…

by Jim Malewitz, The Texas Tribune An Texas-based oilfield service giant has agreed to pay nearly $18.3 million in back overtime wages to more than 1,000 U.S. employees, following a federal investigation. The U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday that Halliburton will pay up after investigators found the Houston-based company…

by Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune Lawyers for the state were again in Travis County court on Monday defending deep cuts made by state lawmakers to a speech and physical therapy program for poor and disabled children. Therapists and families have now sued the Texas Health and Human Services Commission…

by Jay Root and Alana Rocha, The Texas Tribune ROUND ROCK — After spending most of her professional career handling insurance claims and managing personnel issues for employers, 73-year-old Jane Hays got to learn the ins and outs of the Texas workers’ compensation system. Never did she imagine she’d one…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 Eagle Pass Interim City Manager Hector Chavez announced that he had named current Interim Fire Chief Manuel ‘Sonny ” Mello as the new Eagle Pass Fire Chief on Friday, September 18, 2015. Chavez stated that the City Manager has…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 The visiting San Antonio John Jay High School Mustangs stomped the homestanding Eagle Pass HIgh School Eagles 36-14 in a non-district football game on Friday, September 18, 2015, at the Eagle Pass Independent School District Cozel Foster-Memorial Veterans Stadium…