That is really localized to San Francisco whether its Health Care Plans related to city ask county employees, things that are truly local to this area, you think youll have better luck and i think everyone i think the nation as a whole is poised for Price Transparency initiative, but everyone is trying Different Things and waiting to see and it would be wonderful to have a pilot system from the city of San Francisco to step up. Theres things to do that wont run a foul of what has happened in california. You may receive some push back on some of that, but to the extent that you keep it narrative on whats happening in San Francisco accident i think you can make great public arguments about why this is an issue for the city and it provides information for the state Going Forward and my basic understanding of pre em gs law, is it is very case specific and healthly swayed by Public Policy. I think that the things you could do is try things like requiring disclosure for plans negotiated here
Raps. Want to invite ann mccloud up who is the president of the hospital. Thank you for being here. Good afternoon and thank you for having me today. As Senior Vice President for hospital, cha represents more than 450 hospitals throughout the entire state of california. Were happy to be here today and we applaud your efforts with the goal of reducing Health Care Cost. I they we striving for that i think we striving for that and your folks said, achieving that aim. Were supportive of that. I want to say that i hope my comments today arent perceived as not being supportive of transparency, and theyre not. I hope they provide you with a balance perspective on what transparency may or may not do. When we talk about the fundamental issue of price in health care and we heard that used interchangeable three throughout the morning, price, cost, price, cost. Theyre two Different Things in hospitals. We have to work it disintangling cost from cost. Ill put it in the perspective of the airline in
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.
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