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To lend our support and to affirm our commitment to quality transparency and to Price Transparency. I am im the manager here in San Francisco for Kaiser Foundation hospital and health plan and im accountable for the care delivered to a little of over 192,000 people. 3,000 healthy San Francisco 192,000 people. 3,000 healthy San Francisco healthy participant and 3,000 Health Members and for kaiser california we serve 55,000 city and county employees and a little over 2,000 in San Francisco. We val...

That greater quality and Price Transparency for providers them self could have an impact on physician referral pattern and how they deliver care. As we look at new methods of payment, physicians will have greater and greater incentives to make smarter choices but transparency has to be a building block. As executive representing Many Health Care providers across the country, they and consumers buy transparency and i commend the city working together to advance the efforts. Can i ask you a few fo...

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 cal...

Information, but it would take complicated out rhyme to see what the best choice is. The various stakeholders in the industry that are prevy could work together. Its unlikely that it will lead to transparency. They may be a need for government to step in. The city and county of San Francisco could facilitate Price Transparency in a variety of ways. The city and county could require that health plan maintain robust and quality tools. Second it could ask its Health Plan Partners to work toward eli...

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...

Could require that its contracted plans maintain robust Price Transparency tools for their patient members and can that they work toward eliminating the gag claws of providers so theres not holes to consumers about what different providers might cost in terms of their out of pocket liability. What i was about to say is the city of San Francisco, in order to make sure it meets its fiduciary duties could have all contract plans could offer discloses. Any Third Party Vendor contracted by the city a...

Far public process but are provided in addition to the normal process. Were relying on the hearing such as a today for a broader discussion. Were on the same badge San Francisco division of formula retail. You can see weve added to the code in 2004 its a recent addition and it initialing was for only north beach then in 2007 we have a conditional use authorization for our shopping industries. Since 2007 the controls have been amended so, now formula retails control many of the districts. Well go...

Surplus so when we dont have the surplus were not having the resources and having to do with the leveraging adequate resources to focus on the outreach effort. So outreach from the puc and the City Commission aspect how do we ask the puc to support that and be strategic. So far the outreach does meet the slogan our number two is our number one. The citizens dont have computers and dont have the resources i think commissioners torres said it best how do we commit to the promise so when we talk ab...

Far public process but are provided in addition to the normal process. Were relying on the hearing such as a today for a broader discussion. Were on the same badge San Francisco division of formula retail. You can see weve added to the code in 2004 its a recent addition and it initialing was for only north beach then in 2007 we have a conditional use authorization for our shopping industries. Since 2007 the controls have been amended so, now formula retails control many of the districts. Well go...

You on that. Any other comments . Public comment . Seeing none, all right. Item no. 9. The clerk discussion item question the blue shields calculation. Lisa gut be. Im going to accept set up the questions. One of our unions is looking at the rates and benefits process as the question of hsf regarding the rate setting process from the 2013 and he basically was asking about how was the pricing done and concern that maybe we overpriced 2013 and so i thought the best way to answer that question was ...