Penalties for bedsores and surgical infections. Rewards for having few patient deaths and few Cesarean-section births. Hospitals in Madison and around the country are being paid more for good care and less when problems arise. The trend is called “pay for performance.” It will expand next week when Medicare, the federal health plan for the elderly and the disabled, starts refusing to pay the …

A-List Secrets: Who Gets Paid Most for Commercials? (E! Online)
What determines what a celebrity will get paid for endorsing a product? Is there like a minimum wage? Macaela, New Zealand Minimum wage. That’s cute. But no….

Community Meetings To Discuss SEADIP (gazettes.com)
The surveys are in and numerous community meetings have taken place, but before the city takes any more steps to change the zoning for the southeast area of Long Beach, it wants to meet with residents a couple more times.

Hays IT Reveal Results of Latest Industry Survey (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Hays Information Technology surveys senior IT professionals to find the most desired skills from employees in the IT industry

Town to conduct drug survey (Greenwich Time)
With no quantifiable data on high-risk behaviors among town youth, health department officials are pushing for a survey that would provide some answers.