Over 1,000 teaching hospitals receive IME payments. Because teaching hospitals are not paid directly by Medicare for treating managed care patients, an IME payment is calculated by the hospital submitting a shadow (no-pay) claim to Medicare that is used to calculate the IME payment. Teaching hospitals also receive an IME payment associated with Medicare's capital PPS.
The gray squirrel weighs an average 75 and 1.5-pounds. The gray  squirrel is an average of 18-inches long, and half of that is tail.  Nuts are a large part of their diet, alâ¦ong with berries and seeds.
Notoedric mange, a disease caused by mites, becomes epidemic in western gray squirrel populations and is a major source of mortality. Other species of eastern gray squirrels, fox squirrels, California ground squirrels and wild turkeys are expanding and compete with the western gray.