perform a special rate review exclusively for establishing interim IME and DGME rates; rather, MACs may choose to wait until the next regularly scheduled rate review following receipt of the written request from the hospital, and establish interim rates for IME and DGME payments at that time. Alternatively, if the hospital is training residents for the first time but the residents are in an existing program, and the new teaching hospital has received IME and/or DGME cap slots from another hospital under a Medicare GME affiliation agreement (under 42 CFR 413.79(f)), if the
Onomatology. Lothario : A man who obsessively seduces and deceives women or a man who behaves selfishly in his intimate relationships with women. Lothario is also a term for any man who behaves in a way that he does. The Italian name seems fitting, seeing as Don is of Italian descent.
Bartolomeu Dias. Bartolomeu Dias was a Portuguese explorer. He was the first man to have sailed around the Cape of Good Hope. Dias did not set out on the journeys which made him famous until he was in his thirties. All that is known about Diasâs life before his time as an explorer is that he was in charge of some of King JoÃ£o IIâs warehouses. Also, he had only made a single voyage aboard a warship. Sometime in 1486, however, the king tasked him with leading an expedition to discover a route to India by sea. With a small fleet of three ships, Dias set sail in August of the following year. The party at first followed the route discovered a few years earlier by Diogo CÃ£o, which ended at what is now Namibia.