Special series on obamacare. I am calling it a users guide to obamacare. All of your questions about the new law will be answered. This is a big week for health care. The biggest changes we have seen in generations, and it all happens this week as a new Health Care Exchanges mandated by obamacare begin to open. Who has to sign up . What will it cost . How will that affect your Current Health Insurance Coverage . All of those questions answered. All critical questions that we will answer over the week. It is your users guide to obamacare, and if you have questions, email me. Simi a message out facebook, twitter. First tonight the clock is ticking. President obamas speaking moments ago lecturer republicans who were pushing the country toward a shutdown and calling for them to get on board with the Senate Spending plan. Still, no compromise in sight in a few hours to go before the midnight monday deadline. A shutdown would be the first in 17 years. Senate democrats earlier today rejected
Do it with better management. They say we have to have an organization which was brought to you in 2010. In their mind, these targets are bonus money, to pay for their infrastructure so they can accomplish the goals in the initiatives they are talking about. They are not looking to pad their walt. Wallet. They are looking to pay for the structure. When you have to take a registry of all this and communicate properly, it takes time and money and skill sets need to be developed. So i hear what you are saying, but from them its a matter of building a structure so they can go forward as a competitive well organized and well structured entity. Thats just some feedback. Like the infrastructure. They paid a lot of money for that. So did they ask for money back . Mean, i dont know, maybe im over be laboring this. They plow it back into their systems and they are fully insured and we know that they have saved money on our membership. So this is an environment in which we are at risk and the med
Went up. The flu epidemic we had. Everybody in the city, there was a bed shortage for the first time in a long time. Our days per thousand, hospital days per 1,000. It speaks to the management to better coordination of their care in the outpatient setting. The average length of stay similarly. The average length of stay is down 10 percent which is remarkable. 30day readmission rate is down 7. 2 percent. We are not the only organization that has inspired the attention to readmissions. Medicare certainly had a lot to do with that but this means our members arent being discharged early, if they are being discharged, not early, but in the right amount of time, the medical group and hospital make sure that member has what they need at home and to stay home. The medications are filled, they have the right ament amount of help and they are not having to figure out things on their own. And medical and social workers are helping our members. The coordinated care is definitely improved quality.
June 2011 and compares it with 2012 through november 2013. So while our admits per a 1,000 went up. The flu epidemic we had. Everybody in the city, there was a bed shortage for the first time in a long time. Our days per thousand, hospital days per 1,000. It speaks to the management to better coordination of their care in the outpatient setting. The average length of stay similarly. The average length of stay is down 10 percent which is remarkable. 30day readmission rate is down 7. 2 percent. We are not the only organization that has inspired the attention to readmissions. Medicare certainly had a lot to do with that but this means our members arent being discharged early, if they are being discharged, not early, but in the right amount of time, the medical group and hospital make sure that member has what they need at home and to stay home. The medications are filled, they have the right ament amount of help and they are not having to figure out things on their own. And medical and so
Integrate their data and they report it out. And the idea that they are even reporting it to aco but also reporting it to their board of directors and they know if the prescription rate is above 70 percent and below and they work with their particular pigsz physicians to go through that metric. Im not going through all of these. Its a long process to go through them and they initiate the contract and they engage numbers in the physicians and employer and then we monitor the outcomes and assess how to improve integration. If you go page 9, i think our recent experience is probably tells an important story. This looks at the data from july 2010 to june 2011 and compares it with 2012 through november 2013. So while our admits per a 1,000 went up. The flu epidemic we had. Everybody in the city, there was a bed shortage for the first time in a long time. Our days per thousand, hospital days per 1,000. It speaks to the management to better coordination of their care in the outpatient setting