Clinic we had 3,000 one hundred 74 shots andes news information about obviously theres been drift in the stream theyre concerned about the vaccine focusness aforementioned the additional importance of any general washing your hands and staying home when our sick so since we last met we launched the rewards contest and finalized the w b. A. We ended up with 3 percent participation in the San Francisco Unified School District and 33 percent in city college and participation in the San Francisco Ethics Commission as you can see the employers it comes down to the extent of initiative he leadership were looking forward to applying the lessons where we had a robust roll out looking to see how we can apply that im currently working on a 2014 report that you will have more information than you need youll see that at a future Board Meeting that includes the issues of wellness its the first robust year of wellness theres a lot to reflect and learn from we just started the interviews for our newe
Focusness aforementioned the additional importance of any general washing your hands and staying home when our sick so since we last met we launched the rewards contest and finalized the w b. A. We ended up with 3 percent participation in the San Francisco Unified School District and 33 percent in city college and participation in the San Francisco Ethics Commission as you can see the employers it comes down to the extent of initiative he leadership were looking forward to applying the lessons where we had a robust roll out looking to see how we can apply that im currently working on a 2014 report that you will have more information than you need youll see that at a future Board Meeting that includes the issues of wellness its the first robust year of wellness theres a lot to reflect and learn from we just started the interviews for our newest is position well hopefully add a 7th member for the next Board Meeting ill be letting you know who that is those are the major highlights over t
This is one. Theres to. Is there to. Is it fair to say its Alameda County that are a little. Theres far less competition in the Berkley Oakland area sutter is dominate national in that area as you mentioned the alter is affiliated not through sutter. Also the north bay a lot of sutter hospitals in the north bay so where does blue shield customers go in merry run and. Merry run county. Uhhuh. We have a very detailed plan that basically shows where every theres disruption with a Sutter Medical Group with the alternative group if its only a hospital what the additional hospital is in that region as well i would mention. Let me be clear were referring to the right information is 24 in the blue shield the sutter termination fang shooet the one youre referring to dated january 2013. Yes. Thank you are there other questions or comments. Commissioner lim. So we did would you be able to provide the number of members effected for this medical group. Yes. Assuming the negotiation is still going o
Investigated by the federal trade and they were not allowed to take doctors i was not allowed to join when i finished any residecy as a trained doctor so if youre a brown and tom nolans doctor that takes blue shield and he e you happened to have our office on webster street thats right being next to 0 sutter hospital you as the doctor has specialists at that hospital that you use all the time and their your relationships on how to manage our patience so patients do exist in a volume they have to deal with lots of people especially with a lot of problems if youre a blue shield patient that sees a doctor that used the sutter familiarity and the doctor cant use the sutter facility to get paid your blue shield patient at brown and tom nolan doctor has to go to a nonsutter facility im a sutter doctor and if i send you over to the hospital im basically saying i dont know anybody and hope they call me back its a k345ishg9d endeavor to increase score its trickier you have your doctor and dont
Oc w theyve challenged the practices of Sutter Health certain aspects their lack of transparent theyre tying hospitals together and so forth it in the suit they see one the first round no court and sutter is appealing so sutter basically came to us with a new provision theyve never asked for all lawsuits for all customers and trusts and so forth will have to be arrest traded and not permitted to go to open court we thought it was not acceptable and binding our customers 2, 3, 4 a way we didnt think was appropriate so were pushing back against that we you know we are happy to answer more questions you might have about this and look forward to try to resolve this issue before anyone loses their coverage. Now paul will speak on the specifics of the impacts on members. Good afternoon paul brown im the area Vice President for premier accounts im to take a few minutes and talk about the potential impact to your membership i believe weve identified about 57 hundred or about one hundred and 12