Oc w theyve challenged the practices of Sutter Health certain aspects their lack of transparent theyre tying hospitals together and so forth it in the suit they see one the first round no court and sutter is appealing so sutter basically came to us with a new provision theyve never asked for all lawsuits for all customers and trusts and so forth will have to be arrest traded and not permitted to go to open court we thought it was not acceptable and binding our customers 2, 3, 4 a way we didnt think was appropriate so were pushing back against that we you know we are happy to answer more questions you might have about this and look forward to try to resolve this issue before anyone loses their coverage. Now paul will speak on the specifics of the impacts on members. Good afternoon paul brown im the area Vice President for premier accounts im to take a few minutes and talk about the potential impact to your membership i believe weve identified about 57 hundred or about one hundred and 12
Report its important for the board to recall some of you werent here that three years ago sutter coming in came in when they wanted to buy up the whole business and put st. Francis and st. Marries out of business when we launched the acos we want different premiums the brown and tom man sutter premium will be higher than that assuming the utilitytion matched better to be safe than sorry but the premiums effect the costs sutter wouldnt allow us we wanted to create real competition we talked about removing sutter because they were driving our costs up so all the work youve done over the last 3 years to null lists migration i only needed 10 percent in the hospital to blow that out of the water well be back to trying to convince people to pay more by largely because of sutter so it he kind of is something we asked for indirectly and it is happening and sutters rates are higher than any place else in Northern California they drive the hospital market and only the hospital p that they compar
You can buy down to lower monuments in you feel its in our best interest depends upon the size of the claims i recommend the stoploss. I move we accept the recommendation of the actualries no stoploss. Second that. Any Public Comment . Hearing none those in favor i. Opposed motion carries next item. Regular Board Meeting matters item 9 president report supervisor jane kim. The president cant be here i dont have a report Public Comment. Next. 10 directors report director bohe. Thank you commissioner lim i want to direct your attention to a couple of items the first is that we are again partnering with the department of Public Health for shape up walking challenge in each and every one of you can join the challenge we have an sf team i encourage the vendors to join the shape up walk this is a citywide challenge think not only an employee and i encourage the employees to have a shape up walking challenge team claire. Shes not hearing me anyway, the shape up is more and more successful we
So insure theres no type of when the member goes to see their decrease theyre aware of the change i mentioned were implementing an enhances Service Model i want to highlight is couple of things how we help retirees to enroll after the effective dates the next couple slides talk about the call centers all of the the call centers or centers a staffed with representatives that focus on medicare populations theyve all been trained with cultural training to know about the benefits for the city and county of San Francisco as well as your culture here and we basically provide them with all the information they need to they can best insist the future members have a hyatt high rates of satisfaction from members members two and retiree that call into the preare Enrollment Center and the post Enrollment Center we have seasoned representatives that really kind of speak to the level of services were able to provide the retirees are there any questions open the retiree experience for the materials o
Monuments in you feel its in our best interest depends upon the size of the claims i recommend the stoploss. I move we accept the recommendation of the actualries no stoploss. Second that. Any Public Comment . Hearing none those in favor i. Opposed motion carries next item. Regular Board Meeting matters item 9 president report supervisor jane kim. The president cant be here i dont have a report Public Comment. Next. 10 directors report director bohe. Thank you commissioner lim i want to direct your attention to a couple of items the first is that we are again partnering with the department of Public Health for shape up walking challenge in each and every one of you can join the challenge we have an sf team i encourage the vendors to join the shape up walk this is a citywide challenge think not only an employee and i encourage the employees to have a shape up walking challenge team claire. Shes not hearing me anyway, the shape up is more and more successful we literally walk the coast o