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.
Dido. Daughter of king Belus of Tyre whose brother Pygmalion killed her husband Sichaeus. She escaped to North Africa with her people, and bought land from the native king Iarbus. On the land she founded Carthage where she became queen but killed herself when Iarbus threatened with war if she did not become his wife. Another version says that she fell in love with the Trojan prince Aeneas who had been shipwrecked outside the coast of Carthage after fleeing his sacked city. He left her later to go to Italy, where he became the founder of Rome, and the heart-broken Dido committed suicide.