Without the partnership of the Partnership Ambassador tony win the senior advisers csis and a friend and thank you very much tony for everything. I think we will have a very interesting and constructive conversation today and when i think about people who are qualified for their jobs and the right people at the right time i cant think of a better person than my friend from the afghanistanpakistan office at usaid. He summoned that have served in pakistan and afghanistan and served in some of the toughest places in the world. Craig is a friend, greg is a patriot and a qualified individual. Thank god he has raised his hand and agree to public service. Thank you very much. Come on up here. Give them a round of applause. [applause] its very nice to see many of my old friends here in the audience particularly i found from cairo was done a lot of the things that need to be done or might be done in afghanistan. Its great to see all of you and i look forward to meeting those of you that i have
There is water and coffee in the back so feel free to partake. The restrooms at the end of the hall. If you leave the building you can come back in but you will have to go through security. Those of you who will be participating in the conversation, you have microphones in front of you. You do need to turn them on when you are about to talk. I think theres a button that says talk. Turn it on, the red light will come on which will tell you the microphone is active. Were not speaking, please turn it off. We would appreciate that and you probably prefer we dont hear any private conversations as well. Those were speaking, we appreciate you being here. We ask that you keep your arm remarks to about ten minutes but i will be sitting with the secretary and try not to be obnoxious but i may waive or give you an indication if youre getting close to the ten minutes and asked that you wrap up quickly when that happens. We are looking forward to a great conversation talking about innovation in k12
Commissioner lim. Required Financial Reporting during the audit when we do the financial report, required with the audit, and also reviewed by aon and reviewed by independent auditor. Ok. So, further certification we are using the funds properly and for the purposes intended. Correct. So, we provide the calculations but you are correct in that is audited and i know that was reported on last month. Ok, thank you. Commissioner lim. Ibnr for the city plan was substantially reduced 2008, because pretty much all of the city plan is fully funded now. For the medicare retirees. So it would go down, expect it to go down in 2018. All right. Thank you. Any questions, other questions from the board . Any Public Comments . Hearing and seeing none, thank you. We will now return to our regular board meeting. We are no longer the committee of the whole on rates and benefits. Have we changed . No. Madam secretary. Thank you. Item 10, discussion item, update on blue shield trio hmo implementation and p
Transfer, because we do realize that if you sometimes just hand it to the member, they are not going to follow through. So we make sure to offer to do the warm transfer for them. And the same thing holds true with any of the other vendor programs that you have. We dont have everything displayed here, for example. One of the things that we are not displaying on this slide is any of the Tobacco Cessation programs than could be we didnt do outbound programs. They dont have a case that related to the Smoking Cessation or referrals. So these are in bound to best doctors or out bound to one of the benefit partners. Im sure that sometimes it might be a little surprising to see that we have a little bit of lower numbers from particular vendor partners or even from the h. S. S. Wellness team, and one of the great things we do is integrative projects or discussions and that we revisit any opportunities for referral and integration. And so thats ongoing right now. I have a question. Commissioner
Referrals to you, is that what im hearing, or you are just beginning to do that . We have done outreach in order to kick start conversations to look at opportunities for referrals and as you can see here, the only provider that was effective in terms of carrying out a Referral Program was United Health care. All right. Then united refer best doctors, and then you say referred to benefit partners. So, what does that mean, the seven people went back to u. H. C. . No, these are all unique users. So, if we are taking a look benefit partners. Looking at the second line, the u. H. C. , the first column shows referred to best doctors, 19 cases. That means u. H. C. Referred over members to best doctors and out of all the members they referred, we had actually seen through cases through closed status from 19 members. 19 unique users. It says referred to benefit partner seven, what does that mean . That means from best doctors we sent out Seven Members back to u. H. C. And its not the same membe