Real Estate Agent’s Business Planning Guide
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Managed Medicare & Medicaid Factbook: 2011
Managed Medicare and Medicaid Factbook: 2011 provides convenient access to up-to-date enrollment data so you can easily evaluate market share, make plan-by-plan or state-by-state comparisons, identify opportunities and develop strategies. It includes current statistics on:*MA, Medicare managed care, Medicare Part D and managed Medicaid enrollment*Medicare eligibles by state, market penetration by state and by region*Enrollees by type of product including Part D, Special Needs Plans, HMO, local PPO, regional PPO, PFFS and others*Directories of MA, Medicaid plans and Part D plans with contact information*MA and Medicaid plans financial trends
The completely updated Managed Medicare and Medicaid Factbook: 2011 also includes new coverage of these hot topics:*Costs, premiums, rate cuts and profitability;*Star ratings, quality bonuses and ACO alliances;*State initiatives in Medicaid; and*Marketing regulations and bid strategies, along with other challenges such as meaningful differences, rate cuts, RADV audits, RACs and data reporting requirements.
You can have all of this information at your fingertips no need to contact 50 different Medicaid agencies, scour through the convoluted CMS website, or cut and paste to get data into a format that lets you compare apples to apples. Our experts have compiled the most relevant and timely facts for you and presented them in a way that provides one, easy-to-access resource of the managed Medicare and Medicaid data you need to develop sound strategies for 2012 and beyond.
Table of ContentsCh 1: MA Market Developments*MA Market Expansions*Mergers and Acquisitions*Private-Fee-for-Service Plans*Special Needs Plans*Alliances With ACOsCh 2: Strategies and Challenges for Marketing MA and Part D Plans*2011 Enrollment Season*Regulation and Enforcement of Marketing Rules*Product Development and Benefit Design*Marketing AlliancesCh 3: Bid Submissions, Evaluations and Denials*Meaningful Differences Among Products*Bid Strategies, Challenges and Results*Bid Denials and ViolationsCh 4: Medicare and Medicaid Plans Financial Performance*MA Financial Trends*MA Financial Results*Medicaid Plans Financial Results*Stock Performance*Leadership Changes at Medicare and Medicaid PlansCh 5: Costs and Premiums for MA and Part D*Payment Rate Cuts*Rising Premiums*Cost SavingsCh 6: MA Plan Audits*Data Validation*RADVCh 7: New MA Data Reporting Requirements*Regulatory Burdens*RACs*Encounter Data ReportingCh 8: MA Star Ratings and Other Quality Initiatives*Criteria and Measures for Quality Ratings*Quality Bonuses*Flagging Poor Performers*NCQA RankingsCh 9: Medicare Managed Care Enrollment Trends and Market Share DataCh 10: Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Data*Enrollment Data*Federal Retiree Drug Subsidy*Low-Income Subsidy*Directory of PDPs Sorted by Parent OrganizationCh 11: Regional Managed Medicare Marketplace DataCh 12: MA Plan Directory*MA, Cost, PACE and Demonstration PlansCh 13: Dir. of Federal and Regional Medicare RegulatorsCh 14: Managed Medicaid Business Strategies and Developments*Medicaid Plans Expansion*Contract Decisions*Mergers and Acquisitions*Payment Rate Changes*Legal ConflictsCh 15: Managed Medicaid Developments in States*State Initiatives*States With Implemented Medicaid 1115 Waiver ProgramsCh 16: Managed Medicaid Enrollment and Market Share Data*Managed Medicaid Enrollment Data*Managed Medicaid Market Share DataCh 17: Dir. of Medicaid PlansCh 18: Directories of State Medicaid Regulators
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Wills, Trusts, and Estates, Eighth Edition
Retaining the late Jesse Dukeminier’s signature blend of wit, erudition, insight, and playfulness, Wills, Trusts, and Estates, now in its Eighth Edition, continues to offer interesting cases, well written notes, and a logical organization.
The Eight Edition’s new Companion Website, available with adoptions, includes an electronic version of the Teacher’s Manual, PowerPoint slides on selected topics, and author updates.
A stellar example of a great casebook, Wills, Trusts, and Estates features:
- eminently clear presentation of topics
- comprehensive substantive coverage
- inspired case selection
- engaging notes, questions, and problems that connect and highlight legal themes and principles
- humorous and illustrative cartoons, art, photographs, and other images
With many new and revised notes, questions, and problems, the carefully updated Eighth Edition explores:
- New developments in law reform by the ALI and NCCUSL, such as:
- the 2008 Amendments to the Uniform Probate Code, including validation of notarized wills, reformation of wills for mistake, and a reworking of the spousal share
- the Uniform Power of Attorney Act
- further progress in the Restatement (Third) of Trusts and Restatement (Third) of Property
- Ongoing developments in the law, in such areas as:
- inheritance rights for same-sex partners
- the posthumous right of publicity
- the power of an agent to alter an incompetent principal’s estate plan
- liberalized rules of trust modification and termination, and of trustee removal
- standing for donors in suits against the trustees of charitable trusts
- perpetual trusts and self-settled asset protection trusts
- Increasingly important topics such as:
- the movement to cure will execution defects and reform mistakes in wills
- fiduciary administration and trust investment law
- will contests, particularly the law of capacity and insane delusion
Co-authors Robert Sitkoff and James Lindgren took great care to preserve the voice and spirit of Jesse Dukeminier, while fulfilling the trust and expectation among users for timely and relevant coverage, cases, and note material.
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Female Yakuza Tale – Inquisition and Torture
Female Yakuza Tale – Inquisition And Torture is an anarchistic apex in the career of Japanese cult director, Teruo Ishii, whose fifty year resume includes Horror of Malformed Men and Blind Beast Vs. Killer Dwarf. Notoriously lacking restraint, sexy ‘pinky violence’ star, Reiko Ike, returns in this gonzo sequel to Sex & Fury following the further exploits of Ocho, a thief and gambler running afoul of evil yakuza in Meiji Era Tokyo. Aided by a lone wolf adventurer (Ryohei Uchida), Ocho investigates a ruthless gang of cutthroats who are using indentured prostitutes as drug mules to smuggle heroin from China. Director Ishii throws everything but the kitchen sink into this mind-altering sexploitation action saga, all culminating in a bloody mobster massacre replete with sultry swordswomen. Full of intoxicating mayhem and uproarious kabuki-striptease antics, Female Yakuza Tale – Inquisition & Torture is freak-out filmmaking at its finest!
Panik House is proud to present Female Yakuza Tale uncut, uncensored and totally restored from the original vault elements. Available for the first time anywhere on DVD!
FEMALE YAKUZA TALE DVD Features
– Audio Commentary with Chris D., American Cinematheque film programmer and author of the book Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film.
– Director & Star Bios for Teruo Ishii and Reiko Ike, written by Chris D.
– Original Theatrical Trailer.
– Poster and Still Galleries
– Production Notes
– Special Insert Sticker
– Optional English Subtitles
– Brand New 16×9 transfer with completely re-mastered video and audio
– Special Packaging – stunning transparent amaray and the first 10,000 units debut in a clear O-Sleeve
If you want to know where Quentin Tarantino got some of his inspiration for Kill Bill, check out Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture, a spicy slice of Japanese sexploitation from 1973. It’s a brazenly unrestrained sequel to Norifumi Suzuki’s similarly trashy Sex & Fury (another cult favorite among fans of Japanese pulp cinema), and director Teruo Ishii demonstrates his disdain for sequels by dishing up a lurid crime tale filled with rampant sex, female nudity, and blood-spurting ultraviolence. Set in Meiji-era Tokyo circa 1905, the outlandish story kicks into high gear when renegade thief and gambler Ocho (Reiko Ike, fully recovered from the bloodbath in Sex & Fury) is joined by a “lone wolf” drifter (Ryohei Uchida) in pursuit of a gang of murderous thugs with connections to the gruesome “crotch gouge” murders (involving deadly injuries that are best left to the imagination). By the time they close in on a disgusting kingpin who’s been enslaving prostitutes to smuggle Chinese heroin in their nether regions, Ocho has recruited a small army of sexy, sword-wielding hookers who aren’t feeling the least bit merciful. The result is an outrageous orgy of boobs, bullets, and bloodshed, carried out with abundant humor, chaotic choreography, and dazzling use of colorful low-budget settings. Befitting such a delirious dose of sexplo-trash, this high-quality, beautifully mastered DVD release caters to its intended audience with an authoritative audio commentary by Chris Desjardins (author of Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film), whose expert programming of this and other “Pinky Violence” films (at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles) resulted in a renewed appreciation for mind-blowing Asian action films that are defiantly off the beaten path. High-minded prudes and the weak-of-heart are advised to stay away! –Jeff Shannon
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Elder Law in a Nutshell, 5th (In a Nutshell (West Publishing))
The Fifth Edition includes the following topics: the new Elder Justice Act responding to elder abuse and neglect; criminal background checks of workers who work with older patients; major Medicare changes, including: cost-free annual wellness visits and personalized prevention assessments, end-of-life planning, tax increases on both earned and investment income, increased premiums on higher-income enrollees in Part D, gradual filling of the Part D doughnut hole; Medicaid spousal impoverishment protection changes; revamped Medigap plan options effective July 2010; new long-term care insurance program operated by the Federal government, and more.
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