MedStar Health announced Wednesday a broad collaboration with the Gary and Mary West Health Institute, a medical research nonprofit in Washington, to experiment with various care delivery and payment reforms.

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A Baltimore city jury has awarded $5,000 to an apartment unit owner who alleged his landlord invaded his privacy by taking photos of his property in an attempt to remove him as a tenant.

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WASHINGTON — Taxicabs in the District of Columbia will be required to accept credit and debit cards by the end of August. The D.C. Taxicab Commission approved the requirement on Wednesday. It’s part of a broad package of reforms to ...

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In a decision that could prove costly to businesses and workers’ compensation insurers, a Maryland appeals court has found that a law passed a dozen years ago does not mean what those groups thought it did.

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Baltimore City Circuit Court Clerk Frank M. Conaway has moved one step closer toward filing a class action to force the city to collect millions of dollars in delinquent water bills from businesses and other large customers, at the same time that homeowners are at risk of losing their homes because of as little as $35 in unpaid bills.

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Groupon launched a payment service Wednesday that allows businesses to accept credit cards using an iPhone or iPod Touch, becoming the latest company to enter the growing mobile payments market. The announcement sent the online deals company’s stock up nearly ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service is bracing for a first-ever default on billions in payments due to the Treasury, adding to widening uncertainty about the mail agency’s solvency as first-class letters plummet and Congress deadlocks on ways to stem ...

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How real estate agents can represent someone varies from state to state, and specific buyer or listing agent agreements can also vary, depending on the real estate company you employ.

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WASHINGTON — Tossing out President Barack Obama’s health care law would have major unintended consequences for Medicare’s payment systems, unseen but vital plumbing that handles 100 million monthly claims from hospitals and other service providers, the administration has quietly informed ...

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NEW YORK — The Huffington Post doesn’t have to pay bloggers for providing content for its website in part because they knew from the start they wouldn’t be paid and could have taken their work elsewhere, a federal judge ruled ...

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