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...July 4, Casey Kasem counted down the hits one last time. Thirty-nine years to the day after he premiered his American Top 40 program - playing the most popular songs, calling out listeners' long-distance dedications and paving the way for the American Top 20 and American Top 10 spin-offs - the velvet-throated DJ with the unmistakable voice has turned off his mike for good. "Hosting various versions of my countdown program has kept me extremely busy, and I loved every minute of it," Kasem, 77, said in a statement. "However, this decision will free up time I need...
...along with Don Bustany, a Hollywood movie producer and childhood friend, proposed a countdown radio show modeled after the 1940s program Your Hit Parade. Hosted the first installment of American Top 40 on July...
...Left American Top 40 in 1989 over a salary dispute and started his own program, Casey's Top 40, which was reportedly picked up by 400 stations before airing its first episode...
...contrast, Prometheus, funded by a $6 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, calculates compensation for hospitals and doctors based not on the specific treatments a patient receives but on the care a patient should receive "per episode." (Prometheus's calculation model is an open-source program that is already garnering interest from insurers in Minnesota, Pennsylvania and elsewhere...
Still, overhauling the current health-payment system has other pitfalls. Back in 1983, Medicare initiated a similar plan, bundling payments for hospital stays, but the program acquired the unfortunate label "quicker but sicker." Since hospitals were paid a certain amount of money for each patient no matter how long they stayed, many patients were discharged sooner than was prudent, which transferred the burden of care onto nursing homes and created a "mini-industry of readmissions," according to Gail Wilensky, a former head of Medicare. "Redesigning the reimbursement system is not for the faint of heart," says Wilensky. "This...