Builds that will continue on but they wont affect other things at that point in time. Testing because we were focussed on completing the build buckets also with was extended but were looking to be back in may for integrated testing. You might say why was the delay. Why did it happen. Its about two primary reasons. We had some staffing challenges. Staff have left the project for a number of reasons, for personal reasons. Some were let go for performance. We did have staff take time off for medical reasons and one is going to med school. Theres not a pattern to them leaving. What were doing with that is hiring staff on as soon as we can and using consulting personnel to close the gap but every time we have someone leave we lose the resource we needed. And we have the agreed upon use of Ethic Foundation has been a challenge because its looking at a new system of across d. P. H. Acting as one organization and forcing the issue of making decisions d. P. H. Wide. All these have contributed t
To evaluate our charge master at San Francisco general. This is our rates. We are looking at a number of other hospitals to benchmark where we are in comparison to those other hospitals to look at whether our pricing is in line with standards. I will note that from a practical purpose, once we put the patient protections into effect, the rates that we adopt will have very little bearing on the individual patient because we set the outofpocket maximums. We set a cap on what to bill the patient based on insurance coverage, and because of that the rates really become essentially the primary function of the rates is relationship between the hospital and Insurance Companies. Out of our Due Diligence we are going to go through with the study to determine if there are areas where our pricing is out of line with the industry. Lastly, big category what we are doing, and i wont go into all of these individuals, but we have a number of actions underway to improve the way we communicate with and e
Necessary. With the Service Management system well have a lot of benefits. A lot of which are metrics in being able to benchmark. For the last five years, i. T. Internal communications and all hands meeting were minimal. Over the last nine months webex meetings have been held and internal i. T. Newsletter has been generate and for the first time i. T. Communications have started with initial efforts to update and consolidate various internet sites to inform the User Community of i. T. Services, how to contact i. T. And what to expect from i. T. And technology. Major incident management continues to evolve and improve and will stay a focus over the next several years. As the governance will be an an going setting for Portfolio Management as we post in the epic wave 1 live event. For the next tech lifestyle management with new supporting Technology Contracts had to be complete and systems installed prior to go live, i. T. Has worked with contracts an legal to streamline the process. I. T
Information on these slides. We have included additional tables. The appendix to the memo on presentation that went to the health commission, but what you are seeing here are the current and proposed out of pocket payment caps so the existing discount policy and proposed discount policy. I will give you an example. If you look at the second horizontal bar. A patient at income level between 139 to 200 of federal Poverty Level high end is 24,280 per year. Under current policy for an in patient stay, we have a cap of about 1,000 per day up to 10 days. Maximum of 10,000. We are proposing to significantly reduce that to 250 per day for 3 days or 750. For outpatient, the current out special share of cost is 1,000. We propose 350. We have done similar out of pocket caps going up the income scale, and you can look how those change as you go up income scale, but again for 500 and over there was no out of pocket cap in place prior to this proposed policy. Under this policy we would have out of p
They wont affect other things at that point in time. Testing because we were focussed on completing the build buckets also with was extended but were looking to be back in may for integrated testing. You might say why was the delay. Why did it happen. Its about two primary reasons. We had some staffing challenges. Staff have left the project for a number of reasons, for personal reasons. Some were let go for performance. We did have staff take time off for medical reasons and one is going to med school. Theres not a pattern to them leaving. What were doing with that is hiring staff on as soon as we can and using consulting personnel to close the gap but every time we have someone leave we lose the resource we needed. And we have the agreed upon use of Ethic Foundation has been a challenge because its looking at a new system of across d. P. H. Acting as one organization and forcing the issue of making decisions d. P. H. Wide. All these have contributed to the delay but ill talk about it