in the past few hours
rob! commented on Did You Cry at the Tornado Dog Sweeping the Internet?.
rob! commented on Did You Cry at the Tornado Dog Sweeping the Internet?.
It did make my craggy face soften a bit, but I feel bad for all the people who are discovering today that they apparently couldn't pray as hard as Auntie Em.
in the past few hours
rob! commented on Lars Von Trier's New Movie Features Fake Plumbing.
rob! commented on Lars Von Trier's New Movie Features Fake Plumbing.
However we evolve regarding unsimulated sex in films, there will always be a place for body doubles as long as the faces and personalities we fall in love with have junque that doesn't live up to our pornified expectations.
That said, speaking of plumbing, it might be amusing to see a feature-length VESIcare commercial.
That said, speaking of plumbing, it might be amusing to see a feature-length VESIcare commercial.
11:56 AM
rob! commented on I'd Kneecap a Baby for a 3D Pop-Tart Right Now.
rob! commented on I'd Kneecap a Baby for a 3D Pop-Tart Right Now.
Footnote @6, re: the children—
The "Incredible Edibles" formula was created by chemist Don Lusk. Incredible Edibles was removed from the marketplace after it was discovered that the formula for Gobble DeGoop contained a carcinogen.
11:00 AM
rob! commented on I'd Kneecap a Baby for a 3D Pop-Tart Right Now.
rob! commented on I'd Kneecap a Baby for a 3D Pop-Tart Right Now.
Incredible Edibles, made with Gobble DeGoop.
7:50 AM
rob! commented on White People More Likely to See Anger in Obama's Expressions.
rob! commented on White People More Likely to See Anger in Obama's Expressions.
I just ran across @2's McKayla pic, so here's a link.
Pete Souza/White House [no date]@6, your sarcasm detectors need a recharge...
President Barack Obama jokingly mimics gymnast McKayla Maroney's "not impressed" glare while greeting members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic gymnastics teams in the Oval Office.
12:58 PM yesterday
rob! commented on Soldiers are Superheroes, Kids!.
rob! commented on Soldiers are Superheroes, Kids!.
Can you blame them for sharpening their game, now that they have to compete with regular military for access to the home front?
12:12 PM yesterday
rob! commented on Listen Up, Gays: They're Coming to Recruit You.
rob! commented on Listen Up, Gays: They're Coming to Recruit You.
Cascadian flag on the second poster.
@4, "I don't get out much," that was your namesake's problem too, no? *poke poke*
@4, "I don't get out much," that was your namesake's problem too, no? *poke poke*
May 17
rob! commented on Browse the Medicare Hospital Charges and Payment Data.
rob! commented on Browse the Medicare Hospital Charges and Payment Data.
If anyone's wondering, the alphabet soup at the end of most of the diagnoses in Jonathan's app is the "severity-adjusted diagnosis-related group [DRG]" coding that Medicare uses to reimburse hospitals for patient care.
First adopted in 1982, DRGs were a major step away from pure cost-based reimbursement and thus an important part of containing health-care cost increases (though prices have obviously continued to escalate rapidly over the last 30 years).
The "severity-adjusted" refinement is a way of reducing the total number of codes required to be used when seeking reimbursement from Medicare. "Cc" means the base diagnosis PLUS common co-morbidities and complications, while "Mcc" means major co-morbidities and complications. "W" and "W/O" mean with or without, obviously.
Now if we could just get to where ALL physicians and hospitals are paid based on OUTCOMES, rather than diagnoses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis-r…
http://www.irpsys.com/articles%5Cszh_med…
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First adopted in 1982, DRGs were a major step away from pure cost-based reimbursement and thus an important part of containing health-care cost increases (though prices have obviously continued to escalate rapidly over the last 30 years).
The "severity-adjusted" refinement is a way of reducing the total number of codes required to be used when seeking reimbursement from Medicare. "Cc" means the base diagnosis PLUS common co-morbidities and complications, while "Mcc" means major co-morbidities and complications. "W" and "W/O" mean with or without, obviously.
Now if we could just get to where ALL physicians and hospitals are paid based on OUTCOMES, rather than diagnoses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis-r…
http://www.irpsys.com/articles%5Cszh_med…
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