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Disadvantage me. Even if im four times more expensive, you cant charge your members more to go to my hospital than you do other hospitals. This is antitiering preventions in contracts and it prohibits fair competition. We have to do something about this. Could you repeat that for everyone, so if a provider or insurance carrier chargers us more, we cant charge our members more . Thats correct. Not every contract has this prevision, but many of the biggest Hospital Systems in the state have antitiering preventions. They say you cant disadvantage any of my hospitals that you contracted for. They ...

Acted upon today will be on the agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. So we have one relatively longer hearing and we have a number of items before that, so well get going with the hearing and the resolution that i sponsors. Clerk, call item number one and 1. Item number 1 hearing to focus on the overall trends in hospital pricing, the rationale from the hospitals for the setting of these prices, how hospital prices are affecting our governmental accounting standards board unfunded healthcare liability, overall healthcare costs, and how the pricing seems to disproportionately affect the uninsu...

Purposes here, the cpi is not bad because basically you want to measure what are the input prices that providers have to pay to deliver the services and that includes wages and other things that they have to purchase as input. Now, what this slide doesnt show is improving in quality and the mix of patients thats being seen. Theres some evidence that the population is getting sick overtime. Im unable to control over that here. This is an issue that affects us as a station and as a state, and the people thats speaking in this room has a lot of that background and data that you look at. From my p...

Planning Department Staff through its adoption. With that said our board most specifically our issues policy committee has reviewed the draft and they do have significant reservations and concerns about the current status and direction of the draft as currently written on many of the same concerns raised by the Planning Department were raised by our issues policy committee. But we are encouraged that the Planning Department recognizes the need for policy regarding the need for social and cultural and social sources and working a lot on projects related to social and Cultural Heritage throughou...

Commissioners that will take us back to item 7. Your rules and regulations consideration of proposed amendment. Commissioners today i just want to clarify its not intended for you to adopt any revisions to your rules and regulations, but as an opening segment to consider proposed modifications and for you to have a dialogue on them. Your rules and regulations havent been updated since august of 2011. I thought it would be good to improve specifically your appendix a section by adding a submittals and hearing section that would clarify my understanding has been the commissions desire to really ...