on our side, on the payer's side, it is aligned with our hedis measures, and affects our risk scoring, can affect our risk scoring for risk adjustment revenue. as well as star ratings. there's a greater focus on population health. and as i mentioned, one of the things we have seen that we have underestimated a little bit, there is a change in referral patterns to more cost effective specialty environments. so it's a major step from fee for service. western new york was very traditional. i arrived there about four and a half years ago. there was essentially no value-based contract in the market at all. so it was a territory that had lagged a little bit. and as i mentioned, we now have 90% of our pcps. and essentially all of our attributed population on the basis of that contract. i mentioned we spent nine months educating in advance. one of the critical things i heard curtis say the same thing, that it is essential in these environments that you change your provider support model. they need data in a different way and in different timing in order to make the right decisions over what t

emirates interest because apparently the emirates have now denounced hedi and are more backing an independence movement in the southern part of yemen but that's to some extent speculation so is this a new phenomenon or is this are we just now seeing what has been simmering away for for decades bursting out into public view well a lot of this has been simmering but. in a sense at the moment it's exacerbated because the u.s. seem to be to some extent changing their positions to some extent don't seem to take a very decisive stance anywhere in the region and therefore new powers including the regional powers are setting themselves in a much stronger way ok of affright i think we i think we have scratched the surface over an extremely large and complicated situation i thank you for guiding us through it thank you thank you so some of the other stories making news around the world britain's prime minister has unveiled legislation specifying the date and time the country will leave the european union it says press it will take place at eleven p.m. local time on the twenty ninth of march twenty ninth

now, we could debate hedis. it's not perfect. however, we find that we've used the 3m system, risk scoring system as well. we found the results of those two analysis to be fairly similar. so we're fairly comfortable that using our hedis scores was an adequate measure of quality. and we also because of our work on medicare advantage, like most health plans we're having to do the hedis scoring methodology and do the code checking as well. so that seemed to make sense and we had reasonable accuracy with that and then on the efficiency model, we used the mckesen risk scoring tool for that because it has a prospective measure to it and we combine those two and that is applied toward every one of those members' risk score. what that creates is an actually capitation to the monthly scare physician which is unique to every one of the patients that is attributed to that pcp. and as i said, there are a number of things particularly in the preventive and wellness areas that we want to have happen and we continue to pay them on fee for servi

announcement to step down in riyadh more than two weeks ago plunging lebanon into political uncertainty hedi shelved his decision to quit at the request of lebanon's president to allow for dialogue the president of france says the u.n. security council should consider sanctions against libya if it doesn't crack down on people trafficking the money all macro condemns the auctioning of refugees is a crime against humanity he was meeting guinea's president alpha condé who's also chair of the african union commission the u.n. is calling for an investigation after an outcry over a video said to show african refugees being sold as slaves in libya. the situation it is crucial to condemn these situations and denounce them through international law to fight and do everything to eradicate traffickers is now our priority we should try to anticipate the situation because libya is in a political transition there is presently no stable government we are working actively in the framework of the united nations mediation so that there can be a durable political situation before countries blockading kasa have

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on our side, on the payer's side, it is aligned with our hedis measures, and affects our risk scoring, can affect our risk scoring for risk adjustment revenue. as well as star ratings. there's a greater focus on population health. and as i mentioned, one of the things we have seen that we have underestimated a little bit, there is a change in referral patterns to more cost effective specialty environments. so it's a major step from fee for service. western new york was very traditional. i arrived there about four and a half years ago. there was essentially no value-based contract in the market at all. so it was a territory that had lagged a little bit. and as i mentioned, we now have 90% of our pcps. and essentially all of our attributed population on the basis of that contract. i mentioned we spent nine months educating in advance. one of the critical things i heard curtis say the same thing, that it is essential in these environments that you change your provider support model. they need data in a different way and in different timing in order to make the right decisions over what t