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This first portion is just under three hours. The Senate Committee on health education, labor, and pensions will come to order. Today is a busy day. Very important votes will be taking place. Democrats will be meeting in their caucuses, so people are going to be coming in and out. I also think that this hearing is important enough that we extend the time for questioning from the usual five minutes to seven minutes. Let me begin by welcoming the ceos of bristolmyers, chris verner, we thank you for being here. The ceo of merck, and the ceo of johnson and johnson for being with us this morning. T...

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 is to analyze strategic planning. Also we have asked for in the budget the restoration of an h 40 ba...

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 Health to use consumer websites to provide comparisons for drugs in San Francisco and asks for the drug ...

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 nondisclosure agreement and we dont have the ability to understand how those prices are set. The resoluti...

Again. In addition cmd implemented a web base monitoring tool to help track lbe compliance. For our follow ups, our office we use a risk base approach to select specific recommendations that the departments report for field testing. This is where we actually go out to the office and we go in to test. We gather evidence to determine if the departments implementation resolved the problem underlying the recommendation and issue a memo reporting our findings. Our follow up go through the same process as the report. We company a follow up at 6 months, 1 year and 2 years. This time we actually go ou...