Madame secretary. Roll call. President breslin . Here. Vice president . Present. Commissioner hao is expected. Commissioner scott is present. Commissioner canning is here. We have a forum. Quorum. Number 4, please. Approval with the possible modifications of the minutes set forth blow, regular Meeting Minutes from november 14, 2019. Action item. President breslin okay. Has everyone read the minutes . I have no corrections. I would like this comment, according to the minutes i talk too much. [laughter] so im going to try to be better. I keep you all here. Its terrible. But i have no corrections. Since he has no corrections, ill second the motion. President breslin all right. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, all those in favor, aye . All those opposed. There are none opposed. Its unanimous. Item number 5. Item 5, general Public Comment on matters within the boards jurisdiction. This is a discussion item. Please come forward. Good afternoon, commissioners, my name is richard
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
Here. Vice president . Present. Commissioner hao is expected. Commissioner scott is present. Commissioner canning is here. We have a forum. Quorum. Number 4, please. Approval with the possible modifications of the minutes set forth blow, regular Meeting Minutes from november 14, 2019. Action item. President breslin okay. Has everyone read the minutes . I have no corrections. I would like this comment, according to the minutes i talk too much. [laughter] so im going to try to be better. I keep you all here. Its terrible. But i have no corrections. Since he has no corrections, ill second the motion. President breslin all right. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, all those in favor, aye . All those opposed. There are none opposed. Its unanimous. Item number 5. Item 5, general Public Comment on matters within the boards jurisdiction. This is a discussion item. Please come forward. Good afternoon, commissioners, my name is richard rothman, retired city worker. I thought after i
January will not necessarily be where you are maybe mid year in terms of trying to contract with Wheelchair Services or get the appropriate clearances . And i think i heard you say youre trying to work that through to do that. So were starting that process. It takes about a year. Weve been focused on trying to get this up and running since january 1. Now that were there, theyre starting the process to add the benefit. Theyre working with the current vendor to see if they could add it. That would be an easy fix, but we also have to get the systems up to speed to meet the requirements of cms. So to answer your question, i dont know. Were working on it. I will answer to say were committed and working on it. I cant give you a time frame. But i will know more as the year goes on and will be happy to provide an update. I would be interested in at least a quarterly update in the area to track your progress. I recognize that licensing and vendor contracting in your organization, like in most l
The providers because they were not covered in their networks. And with that, im going to turn it over to shenay who will talk to you about the feedback we received on the models. Good afternoon. As part of the engagement process, we presented five models of potential or possible Health Care Model options are or options that are hypothetical options that members were could potentially look for in the future. The first model during this presentation, members were able to share questions ask and share questions about the models, look at the models in detail to figure out what things were appealing and then also talk amongst themselves. Really to determine what models were appealing, what questions they had and what were priorities as they select future Health Care Benefits. The proposed models, there were five selected. The first one was the current plan offering. I wont go into too much detail about that. The second model that was presented was the plan offering third party navigation a