And consequently, the contributions that employers make to the city option will be routed to medical reimbursement accounts that are administered by the city for individual employees, these are similar to frankly the Health Reimbursement accounts that are used widely today and administered privately, there are some difference, one of those which i think youre getting to is that the medical reimbursement accounts administered by the city have no prescribers other than them being available broadly for medical services. You said earlier, i want to get the number right, that about 35 of employers that use these hras have not allowed in this past year that the money be used for Health Insurance . That is correct. If that money is now going to be used in healthy San Francisco lets say, will healthy San Francisco place restrictions on the use of that money . I would imagine that we are not going to prohibit people from using that to buy Health Insurance . That sounds unlikely. I would be relu
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 access to care, were enhancing our Patients Experience by shortening waiting times and increasing our efficiency in Customer Service and these are exactly the items that barbara is at the Health Department working on today. Our second role is more citywide in nature and related to our mission to protect and promote the health of all san franciscans, were maximizing enrollment into the Health Insurance options under the nca and ill focus on this a little bit more. The Health
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 access to care, were enhancing our Patients Experience by shortening waiting times and increasing our efficiency in Customer Service and these are exactly the items that barbara is at the Health Department working on today. Our second
Folks now going the route of insurance or healthy San Francisco . Yes, going the Health Insurance or contributing to the city option, the contribution tos the city option as has been indicated previously, the pool and the size of the healthy San Francisco problem, excuse me, the healthy San Francisco program is likely to be reduced and consequently, the contributions that employers make to the city option will be routed to medical reimbursement accounts that are administered by the city for individual employees, these are similar to frankly the Health Reimbursement accounts that are used widely today and administered privately, there are some difference, one of those which i think youre getting to is that the medical reimbursement accounts administered by the city have no prescribers other than them being available broadly for medical services. You said earlier, i want to get the number right, that about 35 of employers that use these hras have not allowed in this past year that the mo
The 15 thousand 500 will likely be those that are at the highly end of the healthy San Francisco limit, it cares for people up to 500 of poverty and those who are medi cal 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