>> in the case of rac, cms tells the rac what kind of issues they can look at. they work together with cms, and cms approves the type of issues that rac is going to investigate. >> they go in and make the request of a certain type of client that's there? they're not just pulling one patient, are they, from that type? they may pull ten? they may pull 20? >> no, i believe the claims are investigated on an individual basis. >> right. but the provider, i'm saying to the provider, when they get notification from the rac -- >> they get notification of a claim. investigation of a claim. i'm sorry, correction, there could be more than one, but there's a limit. >> that's what i'm trying to get, what is that limit? how many are they trying to pull? does anyone else know the number on that? how many are they pulling at a time for a rac audit? >> let's take a little bit of a step back. there are numerous contractors that can audit a single provider. each of those contractors actually has -- they are set in statute, do the job that they're doing. the third contractor's funct

>> in the case of rac, cms tells the rac what kind of issues they can look at. they work together with cms, and cms approves the type of issues that rac is going to investigate. >> they go in and make the request of a certain type of client that's there? they're not just pulling one patient, are they, from that type? they may pull ten? they may pull 20? >> no, i believe the claims are investigated on an individual basis. >> right. but the provider, i'm saying to the provider, when they get notification from the rac -- >> they get notification of a claim. investigation of a claim. i'm sorry, correction, there could be more than one, but there's a limit. >> that's what i'm trying to get, what is that limit? how many are they trying to pull? does anyone else know the number on that? how many are they pulling at a time for a rac audit? >> let's take a little bit of a step back. there are numerous contractors that can audit a single provider. each of those contractors actually has -- they are set in statute, do the job that they're doing. the third contractor's funct

so that -- and then the racs, the current batch of racs can find down and then the new batch of racs can find up. during the pause we're using it to -- taking advantage of it to alter the rac program based on input that we've gotten from providers and other stakeholders to make it more transparent to providers, to provide more education, and to make sure that it's focused on all areas of improper payment. >> and when will that be public? >> the procurement process is going on right now. we're following sort of stand federal procurement requirements. there are statements of work that in order to actually get proposals, that either have hit or will soon hit, you know, public transparency and contractors will be able to respond to. >> okay. any final comments? bill, i appreciate you. >> no, sir. >> i appreciate you being here and for the conversation. your work is extremely important both in transparency and helping us deal with improper payments and fraud. i think you've heard from this committee pretty clearly we need the balance. we need providers. right now with what's happening in

>> in the case of rac, cms tells the rac what kind of issues they can look at. they work together with cms, and cms approves the type of issues that racs are going to investigate. >> they go in and make the request of a certain type of client that's there? but i'm saying they're not just pulling one patient, are they? from that type? they may pull ten? they may pull 20? how many do they pull? >> no, i believe the claims are investigated on an individual basis. >> right. but the provider, i'm saying to the provider, when they get notification from the rac -- >> yes. they'll get notification of a claim. investigation of a claim. [ inaudible ] i'm sorry. correction. there could be more than one but there is a limit. >> that's what i'm trying to get, what is that limit? how many are they trying to pull? does anyone else know the number on that? trying to pull? >> if i might just take a little bit of a step back. i agree there are numerous contractors that can audit a provider. each of the contractors are supposed to do the job that they're doing. the contractor's fu

>> i think, first, we offered recommendations both in the rac area and in the appeals area. i think it's important while so intertwined to consider those separate, in some ways, and a rac work, that was all the work that we have that we're talking about was before this current backlog.g abou we've seen things that we think are relevant in the rac work.let we did see in 2010 and 2011, tht that they were helping as i t mentioned in my testimony. we need to make appropriate payments and when inappropriate payments are made, they need to be recovered. only they did recover $1.3 billion in 2010 and '11.010 ed. and 6% were appealed.ealed, t when they're appealed, there's a very high overturn rate. clearly something needs to be done. i point to the alj work for the recommendations that i push to the most.do for the system to really work and where the backlog is, we think the biggest recommendation we had is that medicare policies are not clear.recomm and i think, you know, all fraud is certainly improper payments. but not all improper payments are fraud.and most of the providers ar

the anger that the arab world had towards iraq, so having iraqi -- having arab air strikes in in try racs very sensitive topic. and the mime pinster has trumpeted that feeling. he says we are in control. these are our arab brothers, they are not going to attack us. they welcome the americans and coalition air strikes. very sensitive topic when it comes to arab involvement in a rack. >> thank you very much, imran. imran kahn live in baghdad. >>> a man claiming to be the boko haram leader has appeared to be alive and well in the online video. the appearance of him in the video which was posted on social media cannot be independently verified and contradicts nigerian military reports that he had been killed. >>> a cyber attack on the bank jp morgan chase has left more than 76 million accounts compromised. it's one of the largest corporate hacks ever. the raid gathered account holders' names and addresses. jp morgan says there is no evidence that account or security numbers were taken. >>> hong kong's chief executive says he's not going to step down. but he is offering to start negotiations w

of these ten pivotal la aal rac republicans have six and in three, democrats are likely at this point to win. the big picture overview on it, let's start with bob, any disagreements on this map so far? so you agree on the first three? >> let's say the republicans don't lose their own that they know hold, and there's two seats that are problematic, i would say if the democrat doesn't win that seat by a majority of 51%, it has to go to a runoff and more than likely the republicans will win that. kansas is up in the air, but if they lose that, that means their net is 7. here's the way the map works out, we have three that have flipped to the republican, of these ten, you just need a net of three, so you can go 7-4 republicans and still win and it won't matter which seven and which four. trust me, are we doing a common core math problem? >> all of this is about the direction of the country. there's what, 68% of the country, says that we're off track. in the conclusion nears that they're remaining 2% in colorado. the problem with this country, and the leadership is that it seems that it's

but at the same time, he was ready to be done with it and that he secretlyhnl9 hoped rac would fail,d come to terms with what he had done and wanted to die. but what was his -- i mean, i sort of sense that happened he involved in this but what was his evolution? >> this is a guy who at one level the book begins with the shooting and almost anything you learn about him at the beginning or maybe even ever makes you say, this guy is just bone rotten, nothing redeemable in him. but the more you learn, you learn something from his trial where in a capital murder trial lot of trial is about the kind of person's character rather than simply what they did. and then through what he writes when he's in prison, you also learn that -- you kind of learn two different ideas. one is that he's bone rotten. the other is that he had no shot of being anything other than what he was. you have to hold both those ideas. you cannot say he had no shot therefore no big deal, you killed a few people. but we have to recognize that in young man that he knew whose name i could track down from hi? childhood also

rac is out for the season with a torn pec muscle and needs surgery. the big story today is the redskins quarterback position. here is the very, very latest. >> i don't want to get too emotional. but it's been a journey. >> colt mccoy the nfl journeyman got the chance to resurrect his career on sunday. the question now is, will he indeed start next monday at dallas? >> right now we'll move forward with colt. we're going to -- i'd like to make the decision as soon as i can. >> jay gruden says he is sticking with mccoy but there is a massive asterisk and he wears number 10. >> can you rule him out for monday's game? >> no. i can't rule him out. you know, he still has a long way to go. >> robert griffin iii has been out since fracturing his ankle in week two. now just six weeks later might rg iii be ready to return in primetime against the rival no less snveragets robert has to be honest with himself and how he is feeling. ultimately, can he cut without pain? can he run without pain? is he full speed? is it sturdy enough? does he feel like it is? does he

for having settled into a rac rt status quo for so long, we are accepting how its hatred has infectedrything. >> one of the goals of the weekend's organizers is to build a broad coalition against police violence. the organizers are on board. >> they're using tanks and tear gas things that don't make us feel safer or feel that they're there to protect us. >> fact is we just pretend everything is fine. it's not but now we're getting conversations from those people and reactions from those people who have experienced suffering. you know it's breaking open some things that have been under the surface. >> as the service ends here, across town, the hip hop and resistance concert is getting underway and the message being expressed is the same. tafpo is one of the organizers of the weekend of resistance. he says the diversity of those outraged by michael brown's killing is often ignored. >> media likes to paint the narrative that it's a bunch of young angry black kids. but when you touchdown on the ground you quickly learn that it's kind of different. >> reporter: what's been happening here i

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and that perspective changes, perhaps withet ethnicity or rac or gender. for me, i'm fortunate to be married to a strong, professional woman, to me one of the extents to which i think sexism is tolerated in the media, in entertainment, in politics, i think a lot of us were shocked how hilary was treated in the primary a couple of years ago where she was a victim. it's hard for hillary clinton to be viewed as a victim but i have seen it the way lawyers treat my wife. there's a level of sexism in professionalism. >> your wife being an attorney. >> an attorney, by male attorneys would shock me. so i think there's a lot of areas where, you know, some things we have gotten very sensitive about and perhaps in other areas we maybe haven't. we're progressing but it's going to play itself out. you know, again, there's nothing wrong with people being drawn to each other for a different reason and sometimes they are related issues. obviously people who are more recent have a sensitivity to immigration issues, et cetera. it becomes when -- when it becomes a sword to u

but at the same time, he was ready to be done with it and that he secretlyhnl9 hoped rac would fail,e had done and wanted to die. but what was his -- i mean, i sort of sense that happened he involved in this but what was his evolution? >> this is a guy who at one level the book begins with the shooting and almost anything you learn about him at the beginning or maybe even ever makes you say, this guy is just bone rotten, nothing redeemable in him. but the more you learn, you learn something from his trial where in a capital murder trial lot of trial is about the kind of person's character rather than simply what they did. and then through what he writes when he's in prison, you also learn that -- you kind of learn two different ideas. one is that he's bone rotten. the other is that he had no shot of being anything other than what he was. you have to hold both those ideas. you cannot say he had no shot therefore no big deal, you killed a few people. but we have to recognize that in young man that he knew whose name i could track down from hi? childhood also went to jail for violent cr

. >> thank you chairman terry, raccing member schakowsky and members of the subcommittee for this opportunity. if we could have the slides. go to the next slide. yeah. so i think the earlier group talked about a number of -- if you can go ahead and put that on power point. a number of sports where rate of concussion is particularly high. there are, of course, differences in rates for men and women. dr. gay will talk about some of that in terms of weaknesses of women's necks relative to their -- men's necks, now that puts them perhaps at more risk for concussion. next slide. concussion accounts for in the united states roughly about 75% of traumatic brain injuries. it is a brain injury. there is damage to the brain. there's a discussion about whether it's permanent or temporary. in the military the rate is 77%. so turns out that youth sports are a good model for also looking at concussion in terms of the military. in fact, most of the military concussions occur in situations most like they do with the rest of america. some certainly occur in theater, but the majority occur outside of theater,

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