My fellow americasns, good morning, good morning. It is friday december 21st. Good to see you this morning. Welcome to the fullcourt press here on current tv your first stop in the morning to find out whats going on and to talk about it. We look forward to hearing you sound off at our tollfree line 86655press. And, boy, what big news this morning. So much for plan b, John Boehners plan b back fired, blows up in his face and boehner is forced to bow out of plan b when not even his Republican Caucus would go along with it. Hey, we told you a long time ago about john boehner. He is no leader. He is a looser. He cant even control his own republicans. How can he make a deal with president obama. Its going to dominate our talks this morning, but first, the latest. Here she is with todays current news update. Lisa fergusons got it out in los angeles. Hi, lisa. Hey, bill. Thats right. Boehners backup legislation is not going over too well. Republicans scrapped plan b from the house after they
In february of this year and december of last year where we discussed the delta dental retiree ppo and a n is survey with a lot of responses. Next meeting in may well come back and well be discussing that renewal then. Well just jump right into the the retiree renewels. First well talk about the delta care hmo through 2015. Weve included it in the presentation just for your information so that the rates found on page 5 will continue through the end of 2015. The Retiree Union hmo this has been the rate for a while now and its offered another rate pass on this plan for another 2 years. The rates found on page six will be guaranteed through the end of 2016. Any questions about the retiree renewels at this point . Questions from the board . All right. Weve move on to the active portion. On page 8 weve included the delta rate hmo retiree rate guaranteed for the end of 2015. With the retiree Pacific Union hmo, the active Pacific Union hmo has also offered a rate pass for 2 years. The rates f
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