Focusness aforementioned the additional importance of any general washing your hands and staying home when our sick so since we last met we launched the rewards contest and finalized the w b. A. We ended up with 3 percent participation in the San Francisco Unified School District and 33 percent in city college and participation in the San Francisco Ethics Commission as you can see the employers it comes down to the extent of initiative he leadership were looking forward to applying the lessons where we had a robust roll out looking to see how we can apply that im currently working on a 2014 report that you will have more information than you need youll see that at a future Board Meeting that includes the issues of wellness its the first robust year of wellness theres a lot to reflect and learn from we just started the interviews for our newest is position well hopefully add a 7th member for the next Board Meeting ill be letting you know who that is those are the major highlights over t
This is one. Theres to. Is there to. Is it fair to say its Alameda County that are a little. Theres far less competition in the Berkley Oakland area sutter is dominate national in that area as you mentioned the alter is affiliated not through sutter. Also the north bay a lot of sutter hospitals in the north bay so where does blue shield customers go in merry run and. Merry run county. Uhhuh. We have a very detailed plan that basically shows where every theres disruption with a Sutter Medical Group with the alternative group if its only a hospital what the additional hospital is in that region as well i would mention. Let me be clear were referring to the right information is 24 in the blue shield the sutter termination fang shooet the one youre referring to dated january 2013. Yes. Thank you are there other questions or comments. Commissioner lim. So we did would you be able to provide the number of members effected for this medical group. Yes. Assuming the negotiation is still going o
Attended the pb h choosing wisely i want them to make a presentation its a specialist organizations combined to do a whole Consumer Education program through the Consumer Reports its really, really well craft to help people to make decisions and not immediately need an mri or an x ray or whatever so id like to ask them to come o to present and perhaps in the next contract ask our vendors to participate in choosing widely campaign the mta had a diabetes conference we met with the Diabetes Foundation person yesterday to see what is available they have a lot of materials it stephanie will roll out through wellness and i put in what the anticipated changes to medicaid are and to see president obamas budget before although the senate voted them down theyre likely to be in the House Republican and theyll have to push obama to look at that this includes the surcharge on the charge for consumers it didnt say effect our members but anyone that is paying for medicine gas it increases the part c
Investigated by the federal trade and they were not allowed to take doctors i was not allowed to join when i finished any residecy as a trained doctor so if youre a brown and tom nolans doctor that takes blue shield and he e you happened to have our office on webster street thats right being next to 0 sutter hospital you as the doctor has specialists at that hospital that you use all the time and their your relationships on how to manage our patience so patients do exist in a volume they have to deal with lots of people especially with a lot of problems if youre a blue shield patient that sees a doctor that used the sutter familiarity and the doctor cant use the sutter facility to get paid your blue shield patient at brown and tom nolan doctor has to go to a nonsutter facility im a sutter doctor and if i send you over to the hospital im basically saying i dont know anybody and hope they call me back its a k345ishg9d endeavor to increase score its trickier you have your doctor and dont
American people advisor capacitate with our agency for Health Care Research and quality and so provided a number of key insight and before county in terms of having that Public Employer went will the challenges were facing and administering the benefits and that gap doesnt help Decision Makers move forward theres in sight ill a leave it there unless additional questions. Thank you marina for providing this information for one it heights my degree of confidence knowing that truman is a company that acquired metro staff and they were an excellent vendor in the olden form this is an o from any prospective i think well find a good product from them and it achieves the kind of long term results were looking for so this to me pass been more than illuminating and for any project of this scope and scale that is kind of what we want to put on the record we did a Due Diligence not just about the money and the approval and the direction from the board of supervisors to were doing it and did indee