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For an intake with the budget analyst next week. Does that 10 million include equipment as well . Yes. Okay. The last time we had a hearing i vaguely remember the number being over that amount. You had mentioned a specific number closer to 12 . I dont remember the exact dollars. Its was closer to 12 and and we came down to 10. Any money is great. What we are asking for is a step to getting back to that 80 percent which is what weve always advocated for. I might be getting ahead, the second part ...

Unfortunately its not accessible to in patients that we have in our local hospitals as well as our jails. I would also note that our city purchases many of our drugs for our inpatient populations and others with a contract through a Company Called innovation. Unfortunately the pricing for those particular drugs are covered by nondisclosure agreement and we dont have the ability to understand how those prices are set. The resolution is asking for four things. It asks the department of Public Heal...

The city and county of San Francisco. Some of the out patients are eligible to receive a low price negotiated by the federal government in the socalled 340 b program. Unfortunately its not accessible to in patients that we have in our local hospitals as well as our jails. I would also note that our city purchases many of our drugs for our inpatient populations and others with a contract through a Company Called innovation. Unfortunately the pricing for those particular drugs are covered by nondi...

Thank you so much. This was truly a collaborative effort. I appreciate being called up here, but i want you to just take a look at all the volunteers. And this is only a handful of the ones that could get off work or could be here today. There were over 45 people who spent their saturdays working as docents. Were going to get more training today in the area of safety, Public Safety through the Castro Community on patrol, one of the finest s. F. Safe organizations that we have in the city. And we...

In the Company Health care plan we have about 85,000 eligible associates. The rest of our associates are represented under collective bargaining agreements and their benefit plans are provided through other funds. So where we innovate and where we try new things really within the company plan, and thats where the target Pricing Initiative is today. So thats where ill focus our discussion for this afternoon. Mainly, we operated Grocery Retail centers throughout the country, but we also have distr...

Information, so they know which providers are at or below the Reference Price and you need to arm them with the quality information, how often are these providers performing these procedures . What is their volume, what are their outcomes . It would be really unfair to implement a Reference Price if you arent going to arm them with that kind of information. That goes into the next one, which is consumer education. I think there will be case study examples of how informing your employee populatio...

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Imagine from the title of its organization and this includes more than 3000 Public Schools and agencies and state employers covering more than a million and a half and david is here to tell us about the calpers reference pricing and its impact on health care and the cost as andrea has said that he might been promised that he might. We thank you for coming. Thank you, ed. Okay. Im going to talk about this program for hip replacement and it provides Health Benefits for 1. 1 million members statewi...

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Sometimes a thousand dollars a month. I mean, you know, its a wide range. Some people will get subsidies and support and pay less. But theres this group in the middle who make just enough, they get no subsidy, and the price of their premiums for their plans is going up dramatically. But moreover, and this is just what after 36 meetings in my own district their deductibles, their deductibles, they fear, are at a level where unless you have a Catastrophic Health event in your family, you really do...