Really nice weekend here. Not only did SU win, but it was warm and sunny. In fact, yesterday was a record 80°. Today, however, is Monday. Plus I think I have the support duty this week. That sucks.
Posted by pjsauter on March 19, 2012
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Really nice weekend here. Not only did SU win, but it was warm and sunny. In fact, yesterday was a record 80°. Today, however, is Monday. Plus I think I have the support duty this week. That sucks.
I guess the Broncos don’t love Jesus anymore.
I thanks the Broncos. I hope nobody gets the idea to bring Tebow to SF, I don’t think it would be a good mix. It was bad enough imagining Peyton as a 49er.
Oh my. Timmy in gay, godless SF? That would be most excellent.
This didn’t take long:
New York State was paying for the medical care of dead people when Gov. George E. Pataki and the State Legislature created the Office of the Medicaid Inspector General to curb billions of dollars in fraud and misspending by health care providers.
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James G. Sheehan, who was dismissed as inspector general last year, helped recoup $1.5 billion in Medicaid overpayments.
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The turnaround was startling. Within four years the state had recouped $1.5 billion in Medicaid overpayments, the highest recovery rate in the nation. Other states rushed to create inspectors general like New York’s.
But a backlash from the politically powerful health care industry has erased broad support for the crackdown. Last year, amid a crescendo of provider complaints of overzealous, nitpicking audits and unfair tactics, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo quietly dismissed the state’s first Medicaid inspector general, James G. Sheehan, and directed Mr. Sheehan’s successor, James C. Cox, to collaborate with providers on changes to the agency’s policies and auditing methods.
In an interview, James Introne, Mr. Cuomo’s deputy secretary for health, expressed the state’s new view.
“An audit need not be an adversarial enterprise,†Mr. Introne said. “To the extent that an audit turns into an adversarial affair, it may not be conducted properly. An audit is successful when people agree.â€
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/nyregion/new-medicaid-inspector-general-supports-less-adversarial-audits.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
I’m a little :hot: about Peyton coming to this dusty ‘ol cowtown
but was tired of hearing about it by the time I left work.
At least the guy I share an office with will be taking down the picture of timmy ‘bowing as in a stained glass window.
At least I :priest: that he will :omg:
Maron gets a show on IFC
http://www.laughspin.com/2012/03/17/ifc-greenlights-marc-maron-show-straight-to-series-exclusive/
It’s gotta be more watchable than Portlandia.
Word here was that Harbaugh would never give Payton the freedom he had with the Colts to coach from the field.