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Care and overall one of the things is the urgent care is onehundred and 56 visits power thousands and the c e os are experiencing higher visits. Moving on the cost of Outpatient Services one of the things a thats nice to see is the the surgical procedure costs reduced. And overall youll notice that United States outpatient costs has gone down 9. 7 percent and the main driving drivers are the surgical costs and this 313 decreases translates to approximately 1. 4 million for the trust fund. We then look at are our services being used. Were looking at the professional procedures per thousand if y...

Objectives of the meetings have indeed caused kaiser to think ahead of the process and thats part of the review we did last year and after the fact discussions about renewal rates and what have you. As we ignored there is room and time not a lot for additional thinking around this so to the degree that members of the plan and i mean all the members of the plan have an opportunity to raise questions to the commissioners directly you should be doing so. I said this last month and i want to reiterate we cant wait until next spring to discover oh, its all over. So i hope that members will euville ...

Thousand because it wasnt codified. Can you get a opinion from kaiser on that. Thank you commissioner frazer. So the issue of hospitalization and observation thats a medicare issue so if you ask kaiser to do it you should ask every other medicare plan to do it you may be convincing the two. Any other Public Comment. Oh, please come forward im here on behavior. Cant hear you. Is that better . Thank you. Hello, im here on behalf of the local 21 were. I still cant hear you, you have to speak a little bit closer. Okay. Were here to say we appreciate the board supporting this particle as particular...

You know theres a lot of details about what we talk about i wasnt going to necessarily going to go into every meeting but im happy to if theres a appetite for that. I was participating in the meetings on the one on the 23rd. I know the intent and the objectives of the meetings have indeed caused kaiser to think ahead of the process and thats part of the review we did last year and after the fact discussions about renewal rates and what have you. As we ignored there is room and time not a lot for additional thinking around this so to the degree that members of the plan and i mean all the member...

Highlighted in this particular report is the impact of the implementation of the h co and the cost trends. To put it into prospective. And the implementation of flex funded has also given us an opportunity to singeing the dashboard such as rate setting and risk assessments that we perform. This has been our opportunity to again focus on merging trends as we move forward and are reporting to the board. Please note that each of the per thousand metrics are represented as an annual listed member. The content for our report will include the utilization for surgical and maternity services. Utilizat...