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I see your point, director heminger. Mr. Hyde, do you feel with the reporting that we get back from 311, and with the structure we have in place of what we expect to see from these Scooter Companies in terms of not blocking the sidewalk and being locked appropriately, people not riding on the sidewalk. If we were to come into a situation where as they expanded they get more numbers, and we start seeing bad behavior, multiply, do you feel under this proposal you have the tools that you need to then ratchet down on the companies who are not meeting our standards . Absolutely. We are issuing permits that are valid for no longer than one year. That is one thing to consider, these will have to be renewed on an annual basis. Its not like we are just handing over permits forever. Acknowledging that the technology is constantly changing and this mobility space is rapidly evolving. In terms of whether or not we could potentially revoke ....
Regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. Im sandra lee fewer, chairman of the budget and finance committee. Im joined by supervisor Raphael Mandelman and aaron peskin, whos sitting in for supervisor stefani. Colleagues, can i have a motion to excuse supervisor stefani . Thank you. [gavel]. Chair fewer madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much, madam clerk. Can you please call item number one. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much, madam clerk. Colleagues, you might remember that this item was before us at the last budget and finance committee, and i requested it be continued so that we could get a b. L. A. Report. I think we have jim hendray before us from the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission. Good afternoon, supervis ....
That risk adjusting and validated a piece of it. I would present several pieces that go into that calculation and im sure that is one, but im not sure its the main driver. I would be interested in seeing that level of detail. Sure. The higher the risk or the more medicare reimburses you, right . They were doing with the upcoding. Yeah, two components. So the higher risk score and again not an area of officexper but its the relative risk across the program. So medicare for us is not dependent on your utilization. Its Community Rated and then risk adjusted. On the commercial side its entirely utilization based. So if youre a higher utilizer, youre rate is higher. If youre lower risk, your rate is lower. On the medicare side, its a Community Rate approach and then adjusted for risk. So its an adjusted community rating. So the higher our total program is in risk, the more reimbur ....