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And Community Health thank you very much. Thank you so next, i want to call up james and matt from the San Francisco aids foundation and. Good afternoon supervisors. Thank you first i want to thank you for bringing up this important discussion and opportunity im james the Vice President of Public Affairs at San Francisco aids foundation and i want to start by saying i stand before everyone with tremendous help the reason; right why the progress is one hundred percent when you think about it toda...

Because of the lack of understanding of the speciality drugs i put speciality drug in quotations this may be based on costs the important point i want to make awhile making progress in california if we enact all the things in our tool dheft well not make a difference until the pharmaceutical Companies Come to the table theyre not there yet and extremely highpriced drugs make it difficult for Insurance Companies to make them affordable and the reason for that the plans are negotiators would the c...

So i will second the motion. Please call the roll. Commission members please announce your vote when i call your name. Commissioner mondejar . Yes. Commissioner singh . Yes. Commissioner bustos is absent. Madam chair rosales . Yes. I have three ayes and one absent. Okay, the Commission Approves the request. Reluctantly. Please call the next item. City clerk the next order of business is 5d adopting Environmental Review findings pursuant to the California Environmental quality act and approving a...

To have a dedicated Pharmacy Service line that advocates and consumers can call to answer their questions and in addition colorado lien said standardized the tier definition so we know what drugs are in what tier i want to point out not all plans use the tier blue shield as a 1,200 threshold im not certain but it is definitely higher in california recommendations also is that if there are 3 or more Treatment Options for treatment at least one drug in that drug category has to be an tier 13 and t...

Reductions with the network which helped individuals to reduce the costs this hearing is timely in that this last week im helping a client for 14 months his individual copay was 35 a month until recently changed under the speciality tier which brought him up to 500 a month pharmacy bill this was factoring in the fact you have to pay for individual to the doctor as well as the lab during the pricing and gain access to medication through programs you such Medication Assistance Program and a copay ...

Remain with ocii. Overall completion is at 60 percent goal. Its utilizing the citys local hiring policy local by trade. The general contractor and 35 percent for labor classification and 15 percent for operating engineers. There to operating engineer trade is short of 50 percent goal. Ocii acting through the office of economic and Workforce Development continue to work with the contractor to meet this goal at the end of january and operating apprentice to improve local hiring performance. As sta...

Look to the state of california to clarify those although the government has said they last sector as colleen said did say we may have discrimination of all drugs placed on the highest tiers but they kind of not mitigated it but they added to this in a way that wasnt helpful in saying the plans could also use another factor to see why the drugs are tiered at the highest level not showing a factor that is discriminatory so what i was going to do into into depth at the state level to make changes ...

Retiree plan on a basis for retirees weve had many meetings on the Retirement Plan to make it as fair and rich as we can we went to the vendors that participated in those plans offers and discussed what we want to be able to present i have steel good news to offer in terms of my history with the board and what the rates have begun and where we are going to be going to 2016 i think this is great i wanted to say that we dont generally do this the representative for delta dental has been a staunld ...

The trust fund and used to fund the allowable uses to fund the administration of the f s a that produce the administration thats like our contract for could be bra and health care and did not care sf a. Used for administrative purposes for the other health plans. No, it is so youre the forfeitures come because and i know how they got there theyre used for what. To offer the benefit of the expenses in the first time. What about the guarantees you have goes and forfeitures here. The guarantees are...

Opposed by the same sign all opposed by the same sign so it is approved fantastic. Item. Item 5 action item approval 2016 delta dental renewable for all plans. Okay. Im ready to go item 5 you have in your packet a nicely scripted document it outlines the 6 plans the Health Services for dental plans you have 4 hmo plans the hmos and two ppo plans the carries are delta dental and u h c delta dental race a selfinsured ppo plan ann and retiree plan on a basis for retirees weve had many meetings on t...