Have a larger burden of determining we only have a certain amount of a patient and we have to make referrals to different providers. Its going to be important to how much it costs so they can keep their own cost down when theyre thinking about making referrals. Its not going to be just patient that needs this information, but its vital for the provider to make that decision Going Forward. Theres a number of different ways of addressing these barriers and its true legislation. One of the first thing that has been tried to address the contract terms and either prohibit gag clauses or previsions in these contracts. California has done this through sp 57 recently. 751 prohibits gag clauses once an individual is in a plan. Sb 57 went onto prevent gag clauses to hhs qualified entities. They prohibit any clauses that would ban it. So they dont require to disclosing to anyone outside the public once youve enrolled in a plan accident so you , so you may not know how much it is when youen role.
Terms of our interpretation of better, and so we have the courage to watch as this thing involved to say wait a second, lets examine it and make sense and, my specific questions with recommendations three, and this may be a naive question, but can we do that . Given federal and state, tax laws, and etc. , etc. . Can we implement this without being in violation of federal laws . We have, we have been doing it so far and it has not, been, any trouble, and many of our employers take advantage of it and have the hr departments that have in the brokers that we have worked with, saw, no problem. Okay. So. And in i think that commissioner taylormcghee . I have some concerns about the out of pocket minimum. The 4,000 to a maximum, and the 4,000 to the 6360 and so i am trying to wrap my brain around you know, is someone just said a minute ago, something about a mobility and what is relative, right . And so, how does this and what was the sort of take away if you will when you were trying to fig
Second meeting. As well as go over the impact that was requested by the commission and so to review, and at the september second meeting, we recommended the following changes, on the healthy San Francisco side and we recommended that the current transition period, which allows the people who are eligible for coverage california to enroll in and or stay, in healthy San Francisco, and be extended to another year, through december 31, 2015, and we also recommended that healthy San Francisco are expanded to allow uninsured seniors to participate, and we recommended lowering the upper almost level from 400 to 500 percent of poverty to align them with the subsidies under the Affordable Care act and all of these policies were designed to or in tended to maintain the continuity of coverage and to reduce the gaps as well as to make sure that hel ygt San Francisco is available able for the people who dont have other options and the city option, on the side, and we sought, to encourage the use of
Questions about the employer spending requirement, from the per specie of the department of Public Health, how could the employer spending requirement benefit employees that may fall within the 35 thousand, 15 thousand, you know, 19 thousand . So, certainly the employer spending requirement does many thing, it allows for people to get Health Insurance which is primarily how its used. Most of the employer spending requirement is spent to purchase Health Insurance for employees, it can also be used as you know for the city option which can support their enrollment in healthy San Francisco which doesnt mean the individual mandate, but the mra aoption under the city option can be used to purchase Health Insurance premiums for individuals. I see, and one of the things that i remember and i wasnt on the board when this happened, do you remember reading about dr. Cats that served as the director of Public Health at the time and i remember him explaining how the employer spending requirement w
Eligible will be able to apply to medi cal without no cost to thel, so that will be an easy decision, as the income gets higher, the cost sharing gets higher. What percentage will be lgbt . I do not have that percentage. Thank you. Within the department of Public Health, we really have a twofold focus on Health Reform implementation. First is about dphs own Health Care Delivery system. We are looking to ready our system to be the provider of choice for our patients, our uninsured parents have not had a wide choice of Health Care Providers but Health Insurance provides them with that choice, we want them to choose us. A recent survey indicated that 60 of lowincome individuals who are uninsured would change their provider if they were given the choice to do so so we are responding to that challenge and integrating the service we offer throughout our Delivery System so we do a better job to coordinate the care our patients need, were working to improve quality and capacity to increase acc