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Zone Program Integrity Contractors (ZPICs) are federal contractors that work under the direction of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to uncover fraudulent billings under Medicare. ZPICs have broad authority to conduct audits of Medicare-participating healthcare providers; and, following audits, ZPICs can directly impose sanctions and/or refer providers to CMS or the U.S. Department of Justice for further enforcement action.
Technically, ZPICs are tasked with identifying both overpayments and underpayments. Their “integrity” function is intended to ensure that both CMS and the providers that bill Medicare achieve fair outcomes. However, as “fee for service” contractors working with CMS, ZPICs are only financially incentivized to identify overpayments and seek recoupments, and this means that ZPIC audits usually only focus on determining whether these contractors can lodge accusations of fraud.
if it s not on the record for the american people, shouldn t the officials in the white house or shouldn t some of our the president and vice president aren t subject to that, but i think we should safely assume that they should be loyal to this country, and they take an oath that they re going to put us first. it just doesn t seem like that when you are sharing secrets with a hostile foreign power that attacked our election system. let s drill down a little bit more here. you know, we have been asking this question all week why? i think everyone has. why did the president say what he said in helsinki?
tariffs could cost american jobs. here s how. harley davidson has been smacked by these tariffs in the european union as part of a $3.4 billion retaliation against the trump tariffs on european steel and aluminum. europe is a big market for the iconic hogs, it s second only to the united states. it sold nearly 40,000 motorcycles there last year. but it s facing some really stiff competition from european and japanese motorcycle makers which aren t subject to this new tariff. in an sec filing they say the tariffs jumped from 6% to 31% and will increase in an incremental cost of $2,200 per bike. and the company says, nope, it s not going to raise its prices to avoid what it calls abimmediate and lasting detrimental impact on sales. in the short time harley s going to absorb the cost, $45 million, but then shift some of the manufacturing overseas. it says it s the only option to
there is a long-standing practice that the department of justice does not give over information relevant to ongoing to congress, and that is sometuse intelligence committee, through the use of their purported overght role has sort of done away with and tryo get it. tucker: it when you say purported oversight role, do they not have oversight role? if they have an oversight role. tucker: what do you mean purported oversight role? they are using the guise of their oversight role app to ask for information that either they should not get, or that they tentially and by accounts coordinated wit the white house and others who aren t subject of the investigation. that s entirely improper. tucker: i understand you are a partisan involved in the parts and debate, but take three steps back. there is a public interest here so we know that the last administration had a paid
really felt nostalgic for the days when women were held sacred. sacred? you know, don t hit them. and i just need to keep going for a second here. the times reports that the photo was sent to the fbi agent or given to the fbi agent on january 27th, 2017. the fbi, i would be very surprised if the fbi just somehow kept that information from the white house during that whole time until the next fall. that would be really surprising. and by the way, this is not just a question about background checks, yes, we want to make sure that people with security clearances aren t subject to blackmail. but there s a more fundamental point here which is we want to make sure that people who are working in the white house who are representing our government are not being their wives or have not beaten their wives in the past. as the a moral question. it s not only a security question. before we go to a break here,