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An emergency participated can make choices and the procedure can be performed at high volumes so what they did was organized theyre first programs with knees and hips they found that they basically induce enroll hes to go to lower cost facilities and found significantly generally lower implicates and significantly lower thirty day infections and similar followup with about a 26 percent saefz to so theirs conclusion theyre to expand the concept expect and the facilities and their next line up wil...

You found through your friend if you wish but the reimbursement is not as much or you can do this and we have proves of boo outcome and quality that match the very same thing that the high permitted provider is providing at least in the initial round they loud people to make a choice and tried to encourage folks through their Physician Network to go to the network theyve identified for those procedures but if a person said im absolutely not comfortable with that they fixed the Reference Price as...

With an audit that occurs are there questions from the board. So we spent the whole Early Program do we have to do some reporting or subject to anti audit. Subject to audit. The office the entity that animal this closed its doors. Oh, and turned off its lights so this is in the event that we are all right. Thank you other questions from the board about this item im ready to entertain a motion. Thats the difference of the churns or insurance program. Its been properly seconded to adapt this as di...

Youll get into it more a lot about competitive nature and of course, everyone would agree a more competitive environment should produce lower costs. But how much do you think just generically speaking is we do live in San Francisco in the bay area and its an expensive place to live and its more of a cost for hospital not only to exist in terms of the land value, but its more expensive to build here. We saw from the building cost with the cpc hospitals are big. You have to pay higher wages and as...

As you saw in our numbers, we didnt actually see an increase in volume over the time and then in there three procedures, i think weve seen a little bit of increase in colin os ko pi, but that isnt necessarily a bad thing. For a screening like that, its probably a good thing. Yes, maam. My name is lisa summers. Im with Century Health care institute. My question is given cprs work on Maternity Care payment reform. Certainly, o b care is not entirely elective once youre pregnant, you have to delive...

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...

Opportunity. I think theres a lot to what you say, senator, that if we regulate, we do legitimize. Some of todays witnesses have talked about trust and trust is a very important factor particularly with Financial Products and services. So there is that risk. There is a bone in my body that says, i think thats a risk worth taking. And i think its particularly worth taking as we think of these Virtual Currencies as having functions that are a lot like credit cards or debit cards in this respects. ...

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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...

Expenses if somebody was willing to go to a provider. We have four tiers within the network. And we leveraged the blue cross and blue shield centers of excellence and tiered it even further. We started with quality and added a cost component, so this is some of the results from 2012 and 2013 when we implemented that. About 264 joint replacements or back fusion surgeries in the last 18 months or so. In the middle blue bar, you can see the impact to the cost of someone who chose to go to the highe...