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Digit increase, a second year in a role of double digit increase. In 2012 the board decided to go flex funded. The increase was actually when we looked at the utilization was only a 2. 5 percent increase. The rational for lower premiums is one that helps the aco accomplish their goals and lowers the overall cost because they set goals and they need to live within them and achieve them. To remind you an aco is an integrated net deliver Network Model where they and the hospital work together. They talk to each other electronically and in person and look at clinical best practices which are diffe...

And we say, based on this utilization, this drug cost, these catastrophic claims for your population, this is the status quo. Now, if you do these initiatives that they are going to talk about and we look at where your present bed day rates are etc and you bring them down 1015 percent, they that number now becomes 530 for instance. With that, we say if you hit that target, no. 1 that we talked about on page 1 and you go all the way to target no. 2, there is a 50 50 split. Hss for the money that goes down on a per member per month basis. That money is equally split between hss and brown and tol...

With 2012 through november 2013. So while our admits per a 1,000 went up. The flu epidemic we had. Everybody in the city, there was a bed shortage for the first time in a long time. Our days per thousand, hospital days per 1,000. It speaks to the management to better coordination of their care in the outpatient setting. The average length of stay similarly. The average length of stay is down 10 percent which is remarkable. 30day readmission rate is down 7. 2 percent. We are not the only organization that has inspired the attention to readmissions. Medicare certainly had a lot to do with that b...

With 2012 through november 2013. So while our admits per a 1,000 went up. The flu epidemic we had. Everybody in the city, there was a bed shortage for the first time in a long time. Our days per thousand, hospital days per 1,000. It speaks to the management to better coordination of their care in the outpatient setting. The average length of stay similarly. The average length of stay is down 10 percent which is remarkable. 30day readmission rate is down 7. 2 percent. We are not the only organization that has inspired the attention to readmissions. Medicare certainly had a lot to do with that b...

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