Consideration, i think it would be most helpful to our membership. Absolutely. And do apologize for the miscommunication during open enrollment. It was our intent, we had started conversations with january to try to get ahead of this, and it was slow to respond once they notified us of building their own network. Commissioner follansbee one point and request for the future. One point, how does brown and toland update their open panel list of primary care . Is it updated every day . Every month . And how do members access that . So brown and toland update the health plans weekly with changes as in terms if a physician based on the policy qualifies to close their panel, then they notify us and we notify the health plan of that change within a week. So we send it out every week depending on when they send us notification. The lag would be about two weeks. And then the burden is on the health plans when they load it. We can also there is a phone number there for Member Services and that is
Reason i heard about it, because my friends not in kaiser got them. So i started asking, you know, just by chance, my doctor told me to come when he got it to see him. And they didnt have any. Then i found out there is a waiting list. I dont know how long the waiting list is. And you know, there are other things. Try calling durable equipment sometime and waiting on the phone for 45 minutes or a half hour. The other thing, my doctor ive seen for 30 years is cutting back. And the only reason i knew, because i was in to see him, but when you go online to make an appointment, you dont get him, you get apparently hes training the new doctor why doesnt kaiser send out an email saying he is retiring and you can see this other doctor, instead of looking online. If i went online, would have started calling up and saying why cant i see my doctor ive seen for 30 years . You know, kaiser needs to get down in the weeds and fix some of the issues before they start spending money on the warriors and
Apparently now they have a weighting system, but why didnt they send out an email about it. I have to hear the only reason i heard about it, because my friends not in kaiser got them. So i started asking, you know, just by chance, my doctor told me to come when he got it to see him. And they didnt have any. Then i found out there is a waiting list. I dont know how long the waiting list is. And you know, there are other things. Try calling durable equipment sometime and waiting on the phone for 45 minutes or a half hour. The other thing, my doctor ive seen for 30 years is cutting back. And the only reason i knew, because i was in to see him, but when you go online to make an appointment, you dont get him, you get apparently hes training the new doctor why doesnt kaiser send out an email saying he is retiring and you can see this other doctor, instead of looking online. If i went online, would have started calling up and saying why cant i see my doctor ive seen for 30 years . You know, k
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And what is happening to them . A small fraction of them, i would bet, 5 of them make rounds in the hospital, on their own time to see their patients during hospitalization, by may be brief of longer. I understand the model, butt system but the system doesnt really encourage that and all of a sudden, the primary sort of gets handed a patient on discharge and sometimes the hospitals, they institute a program where the hospital called the patient a week later to see how theyre doing, but after that, the hospital was out of the picture. Assumption was the primary care, but they have, as in every health care system, not just kaiser, they have their hands fall just dealing with walkins that dont have insurance that day [laughter]. I want to make sure and i think this is your understanding, that the presentation wasnt about complex Care Management just in the obgyn setting. I know that, yeah. Its across all areas. I know in the discussions weve had in working on all of this, there has been a