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Hospital accused of inflating bills (The Des Moines Register) - A Waterloo hospital was hit with a lawsuit Friday that accused it of inflating customers’ bills in order to overpay its physicians. The lawsuit against Covenant Medical Center says hospital administrators "up-coded" bills, meaning they charged insurers for more extensive services than actually were performed. The lawsuit was filed in Black Hawk County District Court by Cedar Valley Medical

Lake County braces for tax bills (Post-Tribune) - CROWN POINT — Lake County property owners should all have the bad news any day now. The final batch of 2004-pay-2005 property tax bills was mailed out Wednesday, according to Lake County Auditor Peggy Katona.

Some garbage bills prematurely reflect higher rate recently approved by city council (Herald & Review) - DECATUR - Garbage customers should take a closer look at their bills to make sure they're not yet being charged hiked rates, city administrators say. The Decatur City Council in recent weeks approved what some council members called a "modest" garbage rate increase.

PENNYWISE ADVICE FOR THE WALLET: Avoid more pain: Check hospital bills (The Charlotte Observer) - Hospital bills can sometimes appear so dense and unintelligible that many Americans simply pay them without bothering to carefully check the details.

Oil firms get new request to help pay winter bills (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Another Republican lawmaker urged the oil industry on Friday to donate some of its record profits to help poor American families pay winter heating bills, a proposal the Bush administration has rejected as too much like a tax.

Police: Counterfeit bills floating around Benton (Benton Courier) - Benton police advise local businesses to be aware of counterfeit bills. Since August, Detective Patrick Baker said, police have received 14 reports of counterfeit bills.

32 percent increase in heating bills likely (GJ Sentinel) - DENVER — Rising natural gas prices will mean most Colorado homeowners will pay about $50 a month more this winter in heating bills, the Rocky Mountain News reported Saturday.

Missing Bryant water bills delivered (Benton Courier) - It seems the check really was in the mail. A ”large number“ of water bills payments mailed to the City of Bryant found their way to the city's offices - 15 days later.

Bills' youth field finished (The Buffalo News) - A new 500-seat bleacher section and a press box has been completed at the Buffalo Bills Youth Football Stadium next to Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park.

A hot way to reduce heating bills Jim Thorpe homeowner cut his heating and air conditioning cost in half by installing (Times News) - It may be a modest 50 degrees year round but today the earth is hot for bringing those soaring heating bills under control. A geothermal system can reduce heating and air conditioning costs by 50 per cent. That"s been the experience of David Drury of Jim Thorpe.