…sation cues, small switches such as these capture the attention of learners and refocus their attention on specific content. In the light of the high concentration needed to follow instructions in an L2, the utterance of a few words in a familiar language seems guaranteed to recap…

…asure also risk adjusts for patient-level factors, including comorbidities, demographics, disability status, recent use of long-term care, and dual enrollment in Medicare and Medicaid. These risk adjustment variables help ensure that the measure is accounting for higher complexit…

…c could cause an overall decrease in assigned beneficiaries, and change the demographics of the assigned population (including beneficiaries' CMS-HCC risk profiles). Some commenters were especially concerned about the impact on ACOs under prospective assignment. For example, one …

…ate, states must only count the overall rate; they do not have to record by demographics. This allows young people on the margins to be practically ignored, and disparities in graduation rates to be silenced. Second, and also incongruent with the accountability mandates that stip…