Now, a ceremony to honor members of congress and their staffs for their actions off the floor of congress and services for constituents. Hosted by the Congressional Management Foundation, this is just over one hour. Brad hello and welcome everyone to the sixth annual democracy awards. My name is brad fitch, i am so happy to welcome you here on such a beautiful morning. It is so exciting to be here for another one of our awards ceremonies to recognize the best in congress. I am grateful for the founder of the democracy awards, the Bridge Alliance. They are a Diverse Coalition of organizations committed to revitalizing Democratic Practice in america. It is kind of like a trade association for democracy reform. You will hear more about it when debbie lynn comes to the stage. The vision for the democracy awards are simple and based on the Congressional Management Foundations 47 year history of working with u. S. Congress. This award actually goes to the office and the members. Because we r
City plan members increased by about 31 subscribers. Healthcare, medicine care, vantage, ppo increases by 171 subscribers and cruger senior advantage 150 were gained. So i just wanted to give you those numbers and just so you know how our Communications Work and what type of migration and activity is going on out there and theres just a ill finish up here. Vision premiere plan which was another very popular addition that we did this year we have many, many, many compliments from membership thanking us and the board forayeding this. We enrolled 10,123 members. Thats huge. And 9,000 dependants so 19 lives all together. Last year we introduced voluntary benefits, these are your pet insurance, supplemental life, accident insurance, those types of things. We put those out there foreign rollment again this year and we received another 1100 enrollment s were total of about 5,000 for the supplemental benefits. A move on to finance and accounting, so when we wrapped up open enrollment now its b
They worked in h. S. S. As far as an outsideer could see. There was an additional robocall that did cause further confusion and the noise hit the target, there was definitely confusion and reaction to the letters as well as the robo calling and dis enrollment during this period from the trio plan. At the same time, we need to recognize that sutter is a partner as well, just not in the trio product at this time and we appreciate what they provide on the access plus. We do have some lessons around communications and our letters really predominantly focused on primary care physicians and they could have focused for the hill and all the other trio providers , it was going to be the same. We really focused on p. C. P. Because that was the logic to develop the letter list so thats a Lesson Learned for next year. As a result of that, not identifying that we did lose 800 members that theres no reason that they would be in access plus because theres no difference between what access plus and tr
Identifying that we did lose 800 members that theres no reason that they would be in access plus because theres no difference between what access plus and trio for them and as far as network the only difference is that they have a look contribution out of the paycheck but they elected access plus still so thats an opportunity for the future and it would have been nice to have better control over sutter it was amazing control over sutter but the city was able to perform and perhaps we should talk to them earlier next year. We need to better understand in the future the complex relationships our provider partners have with other partners and that could there could be more that we havent thought of so i just wanted to be honest about that and we dont think there is but we didnt think these were coming up. I just want to be honest and transparent and where we would like to continue this to be very flexible and collaborative and working with the provider partners and h. S. S. In the event s
Something ups and another observation is do we do auto enrollment again for those people for which the only difference would be a lower contribution so its just a thought. Its a question that they wait and explore all kinds of autoen roll and not discovered and whether we want to engage in that process again its really i think something that prolonged discussion and i would expect there would be some necessitys to bring forward if we decide to mh370 of this that direction and some engagement of this board before we make the final decision and. I wasnt look forgeron a decision. Thank you. Does anyone have any questions . Commission commission sheehy. I did find it confusion and i know a lot and i think identifying a specialist problem i still havent figured that out and the web sites are not very good on a i wasnt clear whether my primary care physician was in the network or not and i was one of those who was delighted because ive had trouble, i was at ucsf before here and shes been my