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Nasdaq, and google was 2,000 and the s p 500 holding on to fractional gains at 1803. Watching hewlettpackard can pop with its quarterly numbers beating the street, mixed bag, citigroup says they have 30 more upside, Goldman Sachs keeps the celebrating so were watching that as well. Commodities are to the downside. Oil below 92 for the First Time Since june so we are watching that story closely as well. Dennis lets talk about the wintery weather, weather making its way to the east coast causing s...

Did you even get to become an architect . What was your path . Acerbic medical school. So i was in medical school and not very happy about what i saw around medical school that we were feeling at one of the most frustrating aspects when i would work in the emergency room as a student that we take care of this patient who had heart failure, difficulty breathing, we work hard to make sure the patient was what we called dried out to the excess fluid was taken down and everything was turned out perf...

Of time with the underwriters and weve now about to start the discussion with the practitioners. So its timely thank you great. Any other comments . Any Public Comment outreaching i dont think were on Public Comment. Director or you finished you know theres a lot of details about what we talk about i wasnt going to necessarily going to go into every meeting but im happy to if theres a appetite for that. I was participating in the meetings on the one on the 23rd. I know the intent and the objecti...

Reporting to the board. Please note that each of the per thousand metrics are represented as an annual listed member. The content for our report will include the utilization for surgical and maternity services. Utilization for the anti Patient Office visit, lab and urgent care and surgical procedures from pharmacy to utilization and the impact of the high cost provided by blue will shield as matter of our annual litigants part of our report. So at this point im going go to turn to over to my col...

Reporting to the board. Please note that each of the per thousand metrics are represented as an annual listed member. The content for our report will include the utilization for surgical and maternity services. Utilization for the anti Patient Office visit, lab and urgent care and surgical procedures from pharmacy to utilization and the impact of the high cost provided by blue will shield as matter of our annual litigants part of our report. So at this point im going go to turn to over to my col...

Care and overall one of the things is the urgent care is onehundred and 56 visits power thousands and the c e os are experiencing higher visits. Moving on the cost of Outpatient Services one of the things a thats nice to see is the the surgical procedure costs reduced. And overall youll notice that United States outpatient costs has gone down 9. 7 percent and the main driving drivers are the surgical costs and this 313 decreases translates to approximately 1. 4 million for the trust fund. We the...

Objectives of the meetings have indeed caused kaiser to think ahead of the process and thats part of the review we did last year and after the fact discussions about renewal rates and what have you. As we ignored there is room and time not a lot for additional thinking around this so to the degree that members of the plan and i mean all the members of the plan have an opportunity to raise questions to the commissioners directly you should be doing so. I said this last month and i want to reitera...

Thousand because it wasnt codified. Can you get a opinion from kaiser on that. Thank you commissioner frazer. So the issue of hospitalization and observation thats a medicare issue so if you ask kaiser to do it you should ask every other medicare plan to do it you may be convincing the two. Any other Public Comment. Oh, please come forward im here on behavior. Cant hear you. Is that better . Thank you. Hello, im here on behalf of the local 21 were. I still cant hear you, you have to speak a litt...

You know theres a lot of details about what we talk about i wasnt going to necessarily going to go into every meeting but im happy to if theres a appetite for that. I was participating in the meetings on the one on the 23rd. I know the intent and the objectives of the meetings have indeed caused kaiser to think ahead of the process and thats part of the review we did last year and after the fact discussions about renewal rates and what have you. As we ignored there is room and time not a lot for...

Highlighted in this particular report is the impact of the implementation of the h co and the cost trends. To put it into prospective. And the implementation of flex funded has also given us an opportunity to singeing the dashboard such as rate setting and risk assessments that we perform. This has been our opportunity to again focus on merging trends as we move forward and are reporting to the board. Please note that each of the per thousand metrics are represented as an annual listed member. T...