limiting the icm and other medical services charges. i hear there is not a lot of progress made on that and i heard there was a goal of trying to limit the fees of 10 percent, are we on track for that or do you think it will be higher. with the accountability and transparency piece, is that, is part of the negotiations to get kaiser to report on the frequency on things like infections, unplanned hospital readmissions? and on the performance guarantees are they tied to rewards and penalties if the provider doesn't meet those performance guarantees, if there is a penalty attach or incentives for doing a great job on that. i apologize, it's probably clearly in front of me, i just don't understand the report. >> thank you. >> i may need a little help to remember those. the first one are we making progress on it? we are not making as much progress on icm as i had hoped but we are going to make as much progress as possible. i won't be able to say for sure until january whether we've made progress on that. the performance guarantees are ones w

limiting the icm and other medical services charges. i hear there is not a lot of progress made on that and i heard there was a goal of trying to limit the fees of 10 percent, are we on track for that or do you think it will be higher. with the accountability and transparency piece, is that, is part of the negotiations to get kaiser to report on the frequency on things like infections, unplanned hospital readmissions? and on the performance guarantees are they tied to rewards and penalties

that have moved to the united states or move to other parts of the world was really a heroic effort by icm p. and various human rights groups. so i think what the former yugoslavia has taught us how we can work carefully with law enforcement, still collect evidence, still collect the data needed for prosecution but also how to work closely with human rights groups that their primary interested is in getting those individuals back to the families of those families can claim death and have some income where they have none at all. >> i've been trying to to -- and we are near the end of that time. i suspect there are more questions and there are people at the microphones. my own e-mail is available easily on line and i'm sure all of my colleagues academic e-mails are available on line and i would be happy to take follow-up questions either at lunch or the e-mail subsequently and i suspect i speak for all of us and i'm sure i speak for all of us and saying thank you for listening to us for the last three and a half hours. [applause] ..

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