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May help patients make smarter choices and may help to root out fraud. But the data only tells part of the story. The centers for medicare and Medicaid Services made a threedecade secret public wednesday, its Health Provider spending data. Medicaid is an Entitlement Program that is not based on income. It insures 34 million americans a year, primarily the elderly. The data says that among more than 880,000 medicare providers, 252 billion were spent on medical charges and 77. 4 billion were spent...

Choices and may help to root out fraud. But the data only tells part of the story. The centers for medicare and Medicaid Services made a threedecade secret public wednesday, its Health Provider spending data. Medicaid is an Entitlement Program that is not based on income. It insures 34 million americans a year, primarily the elderly. The data says that among more than 880,000 medicare providers, 252 billion were spent on medical charges and 77. 4 billion were spent on doctor payments. A few reco...

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The rain. The forecast calls for it to continue. And rosemary has what you can expect for tomorrow and the rest of the day. Reporter as expected the rain picked up this evening. And it is very widespread. Even a few areas actually shaded in yellow showing you moderate rainfalling at times. Spreading into areas of san mateo. Might shift a little bit to the north. We have a very good rainfalling over the richmond and san rafael bridge. So if you melt it or heard it coming down outside you definite...

Commute seemed to become a bit more challenging as the rain started to fall. No downpour, but enough to make the roads more dangerous than normal. It is hard to say how much rush hour was effected by weather but drivers we met at the flying a gas station who were commuting homing or heading somewhere else were well aware of how to handle themselves. It has been a little slick on the road today. I have to say, but it is okay. Im a native so im used to the weather. A little slower. The roads are a...

Program elements. We may have dialed it back a little too much on the local excuse me, on the lowincome customer component. And, so, were taking a look at that as Program Administrators at that. And then a quick shot of the tiered structure of the program. This what another one of the changes that we implemented in 1314 to make sure that we were not over inventing small systems within the statutory discretion we had ~ we went ahead and tiered the incentive structure based on the size of the syst...

Side of the ledger are going to our customers as well as others. We want to make sure we have financing mechanisms for Program Participants because not everyone has access to financing the balance of the system cost. We want to make sure were addressing that Going Forward, making sure were really optimizing longterm Job Opportunities for disadvantaged san franciscans, you know, working with Work Force Development folks. Were very happy to have this component of our program. But given the level o...

I filled out a card, mr. Chair. Gilbert krizwell. New district 8, where did the surplus go . I remember the last time that mr. Riskin was here, they had a surplus. The mayor and mta have turned their backs on People Living with disabilities and people with h. I. V. Making us wait until after the november election, why wait, do it now. Reject the mta budget, freeze them out until seniors and people with disabilities ride muni for free. Until the mta and the mayor care about seniors and people wit...

Points. I think with regard to the capital investment, a couple of things. One, while this Equity Analysis focused on transit. We are looking at our whole capital portfolio and getting more detailed information and report out more publicly in terms of investments by neighborhood or by supervisor district. Specifically with regard to muni Capital Improvements and what we call the Muni Forward Rapid Network improvements, implementing that came out of the transit analysis. And we have looked at Cap...

Yesterday, the budget includes the elimination of sunday parking. And briefly on the Capital Budget. People wont be able to park in San Francisco on sunday . There is a huge outcry to take away of parking. I was not happy to see the repeal of sunday metering i said before. We had it implemented and the sky did not fall. Its a mixed bag of what peoples thoughts are about it. And how it affects commercial corridors and businesses. I think the chamber of commerce was supportive of sunday metering. ...