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In february of this year and december of last year where we discussed the delta dental retiree ppo and a n is survey with a lot of responses. Next meeting in may well come back and well be discussing that renewal then. Well just jump right into the the retiree renewels. First well talk about the delta care hmo through 2015. Weve included it in the presentation just for your information so that the rates found on page 5 will continue through the end of 2015. The Retiree Union hmo this has been the rate for a while now and its offered another rate pass on this plan for another 2 years. The rates...

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 but this means our members arent being discharged early, if they a...

June 2011 and compares it 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 h...

Integrate their data and they report it out. And the idea that they are even reporting it to aco but also reporting it to their board of directors and they know if the prescription rate is above 70 percent and below and they work with their particular pigsz physicians to go through that metric. Im not going through all of these. Its a long process to go through them and they initiate the contract and they engage numbers in the physicians and employer and then we monitor the outcomes and assess how to improve integration. If you go page 9, i think our recent experience is probably tells an impo...

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 but this means our members arent being discharged early, if they a...